I had a chance to check out the weekend beta of Star Wars: The Old Republic, the upcoming MMORPG from BioWare’s Austin studio. I managed to play through portions of the origin missions of three classes, and took quite a number of screenshots along the way.
Motherboard.tv has a 20-minute interview with Richard Garriott, in which he discusses virtual worlds and shows of Britannia Manor.
RIchard Garriott is selling Britannia Manor II, the palatial Austin, Texas home where he once fended off an intruder with — yes — an Uzi.
A report — using Ultima 2 as its example — examining the technical hurdles and other challenges associated with preserving and re-playing (many years later) old computer games.
The Wing Commander CIC team posted tons of updates — all of them awesome — yesterday, releasing tons of material related to all the Wing Commander games.
Richard Garriott has penned an opinion piece for The Statesman (an Austin and area newspaper) discussing the future of space travel in the post-Space Shuttle era.
The Middle-Aged Gamer interviewed some of the more well-known members of the Ultima X: Odyssey development team back in 2008, and posted the entire discussion on his blog.
Another fine rendition of the classic Ultima tune, ‘Stones’, from a group billing themselves as the Descendants of Edrick.
Courtesy of Bill Randolph and Joe Garrity of the Origin Muesum, Ultima Aiera is pleased to present a series of design documents for Ultima 6, covering areas such as conversation syntax, object design, and Origin’s in-house map editor.
