The cat's out of the bag: Mass Effect 3 is coming!
I mean, we already knew it was coming (in that we knew that the Mass Effect series was intended to be a trilogy). But thanks to a happy little slip-up on the EA online...
Tagged: Mass Effect
EA's new Facebook game: Dragon Age Legends
Well, here’s one title that will benefit from the new EA/Facebook agreement! And as Joystiq reports, playing Dragon Age: Legends will have net you some extra content in Dragon Age 2 (though what, exactly,...
Because it's good: A Mass Effect fan video
And by “good,” I mean “wow, someone put a lot of effort into this and made it look really professional!” Yes, yes, I know…it has nothing to do with Ultima per sé. That’s okay…it’s...
Ultima has a friend in Felicia Day
Okay, here’s the thing: I never really went for Buffy the Vampire Slayer for more than a season or two. It had this neat, kind of quirky vibe to begin with, but (much like...
Open Question: What sort of education do you need to get into game programming?
Kevin Fishburne sent me a link to this “Ask Slashdot” installment, in which a user poses that very question. The discussion that results is pretty informative; definitely worth a read. It covers a number...
EA CEO John Riccitiello: "It was definitely our fault."
[singlepic id=91 w=250 h=114 float=right]Okay, he isn’t talking about any of the Ultima games; he’s talking about the Need for Speed series. But for anyone who has ever lamented the fact that EA did...
Playing computer games…not actually bad for your marks!
Your parents were wrong. A new study from the University of Maryland shows that more time spent in front of a computer doesn’t hurt a child’s academic performance, and, in some cases, actually improves...
Awesome: Lair of the Shadow Broker trailer
This is, I submit, what downloadable content (DLC) should be all about: Being an Ultima fan, I’ve always measured add-on content — DLC included — against the metric established by the two expansions to...
Mass Effect 2 coming to PS3
And from the sound of it, all the various bits of downloadable content (DLC) will be included in the box. Not that this has even the first thing to do with Ultima…but I like...
Morality systems in games
I was just reading about the new Going Rogue expansion for City of Heroes, the principal new feature of which is that “[f]or the first time in the game, heroes and villains will be...
