Codex Dragon Does Dragon Age
Felicia “Codex Dragon” Day has been tweeting about her latest “mystery project” for the last couple of months (if not more), and today news broke concerning exactly what that project is: a six-episode Web...
Creation takes time. Time is limited.
Nightly Open Thread
Suppose for a moment that BioWare’s The Old Republic MMORPG fails commercially. Will the Star Wars franchise survive?
History in the Making: Civ IV's Theme Wins a Grammy
I wrote, previously: “for those of you who haven’t heard: the theme music from Civilization IV, Baba Yetu, has been nominated for a Grammy award, in the “Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists” category. What...
Ultima 6 for Super NES…Online!
Twitter user and Ultima fan Cody Baxter alerted me to this online Nintendo Super NES emulation site, at which it appears that the NES port of Ultima 6 is available to play for free....
Nightly Open Thread
Blizzard…a twenty-year legacy of awesome, or a two-decade legacy of fancy window dressing on unoriginal ideas?
Richard Garriott has a plan to beat Zynga
There is a fascinating article about Richard Garriott’s new company, Portalarium, and its plan to take on social gaming giant Zynga at GamesBeat. It’s a pretty informative article, actually, structured around a discussion with...
Nightly Open Thread
The sum total computing power of humankind’s general purpose computers, world-wide, is approximately 6.4*10^18 instructions per second. Additionally, humankind’s total storage capacity, world-wide, is approximately 2.9 × 10^20 optimally compressed bytes. Respectively, that’s the...
In Por Ylem 2 Launched!
In Por Ylem was, apparently (I didn’t really know this before) one of the most popular Ultima Online freeshards. Its sequel, In Por Ylem 2 (IPY2), was released yesterday, and introduces a whole host...
Nightly Open Thread
Eight myths about video games…debunked here. And are consoles limiting the potential and future sales performance of high-end PC graphics cards? Discuss…or discuss something else.
New Gallery: OSI Rejection Letter
Courtesy of Kevin Fishburne (the developer behind Sanctimonia), Ultima Aiera is pleased to present this letter — on Origin Systems letterhead — signed by Richard “Lord British” Garriott himself. It is a rejection letter,...
