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Richard Garriott wins legal fight with NCsoft

Richard Garriott wins legal fight with NCsoft

From Gameinformer: An Austin, Texas, court has awarded Ultima creator Richard Garriott $28 million over what it determined was his forced departure from NCsoft in 2008. At the time of his departure, a letter...

Testing weekend coming up

Testing weekend coming up

In Edmonton, the coming weekend is a long weekend, which means I will be offline (or, at least, away from the site) until Tuesday. As such, I will be using that time to test...

Richard Garriott Ultima 6 Interviews

Richard Garriott Ultima 6 Interviews

Forum user Saxon1974 alerted me to the existence of the two MP3s linked from this forum thread, which feature an interview that Ultima creator Richard Garriott gave during the production of my personal favourite...

Happy Birthday, Dino!

Happy Birthday, Dino!

Or, at least, “Happy Birthday Dino’s Ultima Page!” The signal best site for Ultima-related news and information has seen several changes and moves over the years, but has never ceased to be a valuable...

Added: Ultima 6 Project ZIP downloads

Added: Ultima 6 Project ZIP downloads

The full release-version download of the Ultima 6 Project is over 1 GB in size, which is fairly substantial. Heck, I can remember a time (not too long ago, either) when such a massive...

Sending the wrong message

Sending the wrong message

Framing context: a couple of weeks ago, the Dragoness picked up a new toy for our daughter…a toy cash register. It’s a pretty neat little setup actually: it came with a few groceries and...

Added: Akalabeth for iPhone

Added: Akalabeth for iPhone

I was just tipped off to the existence of this remake thanks to an email from Zen. It’s a complete port of Akalabeth to the iPhone. This is evidently a licensed effort, as the...

New Ultima Blog: Ultima Adventures

New Ultima Blog: Ultima Adventures

As if running the best French-language Ultima site and managing the ambitious Return to the Serpent Isle project wasn’t enough, Sergorn Dragon has taken it upon himself to take a cue from Ophidian Dragon...

Added: Exalted Crown

Added: Exalted Crown

I’ve just added a project entry for a very promising-looking Ultima 7 remake using the Neverwinter Nights 2 engine. As yet, the team has only released screenshots of their work, and in truth they...

Changing directions, a bit

Changing directions, a bit

First, let me just remark that all the Online Remakes are once again available for download, and in fact have been so available since last Friday. The reason for the delay was the fact...