It has been seven years since Ultima V: Lazarus version 1.20 was released. What an accomplishment that was. Even though it wasn’t an official entry into the series, I still think Lazarus is the...
Ian Frazier, former lead designer of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and the head of Team Lazarus, has landed a new job at BioWare Montreal.
Panu “Grotto Dragon” Aaltio, has been recognized by the International Film Music Critics Association for his work on Metsän Tarina.
In which we look at the various Ultima fan projects that have been active, even if only briefly, in 2012, and note the progress that these have made.
The team from The Ultima 6 Project take some time out of their busy schedule to tell us about their project. (Update: Contributions from Alfie)
Ian “Tiberius” Frazier, former head of Team Lazarus and former Game Director at Big Huge Games, has joined Epic Baltimore.
On one hand, it sounds like any other MMORPG, albeit with a toolkit allowing modest amounts of player-generated content to be incorporated into the larger game. On the other hand…is this something?
The Ultima 7-inspired 3D RPG, after going dark for almost four years, has resumed development. And this time, the developers are trying to crowdfund the game!
The games comprising the Ultima series were, between 1981 and 1999, the defining computer role-playing games. Both the Western and Eastern RPG “schools”, if that is an appropriate term for them, were heavily inspired by the Ultima games, and still feature numerous gameplay and interface conventions that one Ultima or another introduced.