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Beautiful Britannia: New Flowers!

Beautiful Britannia: New Flowers!

Firstknight sent me another fantastic Beautiful Britannia screenshot by email, and wanted to draw attention to a couple of particular features thereof. He writes: “The screen shows not only the new [texture] transitions, but...

Nightly Open Thread

Nightly Open Thread

Seesmic, HootSuite, or TweetDeck? Remember, this is an open thread. Don’t just comment on what I say…post anything interesting you’ve seen recently!

Why have I not heard of Worldforge before now?

Why have I not heard of Worldforge before now?

Worldforge, which first emerged onto the scene back in 1997, bills itself as “the original open-source MMORPG project.” And that’s certainly a fair descriptor of what it is. It isn’t, strictly speaking, an MMO...

Added: Joyous Rebel

Added: Joyous Rebel

The oddly-titled Joyous Rebel is an Ultima-inspired RPG that was originally released as shareware in 1996. In 1998, it received several bug fixes and was re-released as freeware, possibly in anticipation of its sequel...

More news from the Days Inn, Sullivan

More news from the Days Inn, Sullivan

Well, I’ve done some more research, and my findings have been interesting. Previously, I mentioned that I was getting pop-ups. I should have been more specific, because what I was actually getting was a...

Nightly Open Thread

Nightly Open Thread

Activision has killed the Guitar Hero franchise. DJ Hero also got canned, but I don’t think anybody cares. Oh, and Activision is sacking about 500 people as well. It seems to me we were...

Speaking of Ultima Online…

Speaking of Ultima Online…

…this is your heartwarming story of the week: …UO player Hollie Macrall recently celebrated her 83rd birthday, and while we don’t know for sure whether that’s some sort of MMO record, we do know...

The first ever Nightly Open Thread

The first ever Nightly Open Thread

Some of you may have noticed that the forum links are gone. The old forum has been shut down, and the new forum has an error I can’t fix…and, frankly, don’t care to. I...