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...
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 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...
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.
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,...
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...
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!
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...
Because if Origin Systems had been purchased instead by Ubisoft, this entire site and every fan project and patch on it would have been stopped dead in their collective tracks a long time ago....
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...
