Richard Garriott: Only My Team Can Create Ultima's True Heir
Ultima creator Richard Garriott throws down a gauntlet at EA’s feet in his comment on EA’s recent legal actions and Mythic’s secret project.
Tagged: Mythic
La Legende d'Ultima Is Back Online!
Sergorn Dragon’s French-language Ultima news and information site, La Légende d’Ultima, is back online, at least somewhat.
Ultima 4 & EA: Corrections and Clarifications
The article I wrote concerning Ultima 4, copyright, and EA’s recent spate of DMCA actions against certain Ultima 4 remakes has attracted a lot of traffic, and a lot of misinformation has been thrown around in its wake. I attempt to offer corrections.
Concerning Ultima 4 (Or: In Which I Have to Be The Wet Blanket)
Is Ultima 4 freeware? We, the Ultima fandom, have thought so for some time, but the truth of the matter is rather more complicated. And EA has finally taken notice, which has had some unfortunate consequences.
Zynga Acquires Floodgate Entertainment
Zynga — the social gaming giant, producer of FarmVille — has acquired Floodgate Entertainment, the gaming company founded in 2000 by Paul Neurath (formerly of Looking Glass Studios).
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.
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:...
