For Those Of You That Play Ultima Online…
A new development video diary from BioWare Mythic teases some of the things that the company has planned for Ultima Online in the coming year.
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New video: an Ultima Online demo reel…from 2004!
Ultima Aiera is pleased to present this demo reel — which was apparently only ever released internally at Electronic Arts and whatever studio was doing the development (Mythic Entertainment?) — from a second attempt...
Origin: Best PC game developer of all time?
Kotaku’s Luke Plunkett thinks so. [Update: link fixed! — Ed.] And I, for one, cannot disagree. Don’t get me wrong: there are a few other phenomenal game developers out there. I’m less sold on...
So about that browser-based Ultima game…
Submitted for Dragonly consideration: Zynga, the makers of (ugh) Farmville, are now apparently worth about $290 million more than Electronic Arts. Which is to say that this: Is, bafflingly, worth more than all this:...
New Gallery: Ultima Online Monster Animations
Courtesy of Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum, and to the hard work of both him and the team at the Wing Commander CIC, Ultima Aiera is pleased to present five animated sequences of...
Ultima Online GDC Hall of Fame video
Apparently, Ultima Online received the first ever Hall of Fame award at GDC, the Game Developers Conference. To celebrate, Mythic (who are now in charge of UO) produced a celebratory little video: Now, granted,...
Free-to-Play: the way of the future for MMOs?
Last month, Turbine announced that their MMORPG, Lord of the Rings Online, was switching from a paid subscription payment model to a microtransaction-based free-to-play model instead. The result? According to Kate Paiz, LotRO’s executive...
Dragon Age 2 imports "the world"
[amazonify]B003UF9E0O:right[/amazonify]Joystiq reports that the lingering ambiguity over how BioWare’s Dragon Age 2 [pre-order] will handle character imports has been cleared up. …lead designer Mike Laidlaw revealed that while you don’t get to import your...
Wing Commander 2 being tested for re-release?
It seems like BioWare Mythic are pressing ahead with their project to get DOSboxed versions of the old Origin games — or, at least, the Wing Commander and Ultima series — re-released via digital...
Lord of Ultima updates: Serpent Isle, Ascension, and Forge of Virtue?
Say what? EA Phenomic’s browser-based game, Lord of Ultima, which borrows the Ultima name but bears no other tangible relation to the RPG franchise, has announced a series of curiously-named updates to be released...
Ship-to-ship combat coming to Ultima Online; Returning players can play for free
The Wing Commander CIC reports that BioWare Mythic is planning on releasing a series of “booster packs” to enhance Ultima Online in new and exciting ways. The recent Town Hall event was the venue...
