Titans of Ether November update
As in November 2010. But whatever. Anyhow, the penultimate month of 2010 was a fairly productive one for the Titans. Zini finished his work on their smithing system, so sword and armour forging is...
Creation takes time. Time is limited.
Oh…I feel old now
It gets worse when I consider that my grandkids, if ever I have, will probably have no clue what the heck a CD was. They may not even know what a DVD was, since...
Richard Garriott interview with VBS.TV/Motherboard
It’s not a brand new interview, seeing as it was published in February of 2009 (and seeing as how Tabula Rasa comes up for discussion in it), but it’s still pretty sweet. It gives...
New Gallery: Wild Basin Expedition images
Oh, those wily OSI employees! Courtesy of Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum, Ultima Aiera is pleased to present these eight (8) photographs of the “Wild Basin Expedition” Team (a.k.a. the development and production...
Aiera is now hosting the Morrowind 2011 site
Right here. Tyler “Warwon” Smith is known to myself and many others by a slightly older nickname: Warwon Dragon. He was briefly part of my Lost Sosaria team, and we’ve been in semi-regular contact...
Beautiful Britannia 2011 R1 released!
Well, isn’t it a happy new year? Firstknight surprised me overnight by uploading his latest release of Beautiful Britannia, which focuses on improving texture quality and playability in Yew. As you can see from...
Neverwinter Nights 2 now available on Steam
You can file this under “it’s about friggin’ time.” That’s right, Dragons and Dragonettes…Steam has finally added Obsidian’s Neverwinter Nights 2 to its catalogue of games. It currently retails for $20 USD (well, $19.99…),...
Ultima V on a Passport MIDI card
Over at ByteCellar (the vintage computing weblog), blogger blakespot has linked to a YouTube video of the title screen from Ultima 5, with audio being handled by the dual-card Passport Wavetable MIDI card. It...
New Gallery: Richard Garriott and Warren Spector, circa 1992
Time for another stroll through history. Courtesy of Joe Garrity and the Origin Museum, Ultima Aiera is pleased to present twelve (12) pictures of Richard Garriott and Warren Spector, which were taken in 1992....
Rockin’ Ultima 5 theme music!
Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum alerted me to this: I could say more for the sound quality, but that right there is a pretty epic take on the title screen track from Ultima...
