Tagged: MMORPG

July 24, 2014

Ultima Online: Publish 86.0.1 Live on TC1

Broadsword Online Games have released a small patch for Ultima Online’s Publish 86, which should now be live on the Test Center shard.

Headlines

July 15, 2014

Sean Malstrom Doesn’t Like Shroud of the Avatar

Typed dialogue and a wide variety of house options aren’t everyone’s mug of ale: “For what is wrong, it is what I hear from people who bought into the alpha…An example is dialogue. You...

How Ultima Online Convinced CCP That EVE Online Would Work

Headlines

July 15, 2014

How Ultima Online Convinced CCP That EVE Online Would Work

Via Eurogamer: “…within months of CCP springing into existence, Origin and EA released Richard Garriott’s Ultima Online. For [Thorolfur Beck], fearing they had been beaten to the market, it seemed like the end of...

Gaming / Ultima Fan Projects

June 26, 2014

A Year to the Day, The Neverwinter Vault Is Once Again Down…Seemingly For Good

IGN has shuttered their once-excellent Neverwinter Vault, formerly a home to all manner of mods and mod-making content for Neverwinter Nights and its sequel.

Shroud of the Avatar / Ultima Online

June 16, 2014

Ten Ton Hammer: On Looting Houses in Ultima Online (Also, Shroud of the Avatar Won’t Have That)

Over at Ten Ton Hammer, in an opinion piece about looting player houses in Ultima Online, Richard Garriott is quoted (sort of) as saying that this practice will not be in Shroud of the Avatar.

Gaming / Legends of Aria

June 6, 2014

Shards Online: Open Preview Weekend

Citadel Studios are giving all comers — backers and non-backers alike — the opportunity to try Shards Online this weekend.

Inspired by Ultima

May 28, 2014

Sanctimonia: New Website

Kevin Fishburne has rolled out a new website for Sanctimonia, his Ultima-inspired PvE MMORPG for Linux.

Inspired by Ultima

May 26, 2014

EUO: New Patch, New (Very Ultima-Inspired) Equipment Runes

EUO, the Ultima-inspired, tile-based free MMORPG, has been updated again. And the recently-added equipment runes that players can buy have a very Ultima 6-inspired look to them.