New Gallery: Ultima Forever’s Great Stygian Abyss (And the Isle of the Avatar)
Four areas from the Great Stygian Abyss, as it would have appeared in Ultima Forever.
Four areas from the Great Stygian Abyss, as it would have appeared in Ultima Forever.
Give Mythic’s Ultima Forever one last, long play session today, if you are able.
Mythic’s Ultima Forever will be going offline by the end of the week. What say we all — or as many of us who can — give the game one last, long play session before the end?
Jeff Skalski tipped off the Wing Commander CIC as to the location of the downed Kilrathi fighter in Ultima Forever. Because yes, it had one of those.
An image of the foyer of Blackthorn’s Castle, as it would have appeared in Ultima Forever had it been added to the game.
I suppose, if one wants to get technical, it was only ever promised that the in-game shop wouldn’t be integral to the PC version of the game.
In which I take a long, long shot at extracting data from the Ultima Forever PC alpha client…and succeed.
Electronic Arts has announced that Ultima Forever’s online services will be shut down on August 29th, 2014, rendering the game unplayable past that date. This is a tragic end to a once-promising game.
EA Mobile’s Frank Gibeau shared his thoughts on the failure of Mythic’s Dungeon Keeper reboot with GamesIndustry.
Eurogamer.net has a very revealing interview with Andrew Wilson, EA CEO, concerning the Dungeon Keeper reboot.