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.
Creation takes time. Time is limited.
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,...
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
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?
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...
In which we are thankful that Ultima is an EA property
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....
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
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
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...
In a previous decade, Origin would have dominated this sort of list
By which, of course, I mean a list of the top ten games of the previous decade. Were it a list about the period between…say…1990 and 2000, you’d basically have every main-series Ultima title...
