EA Launches "Origin" Download Service (Updated!)
Electronic Arts has just announced its new digital download service, which has a name that will be more than a little familiar to Ultima fans.
Tagged: Origin Systems
Electronic Arts Games (Yes, Origin's Games Too!) Come To GOG.Com
It’s been a long time coming, and Ultima fans have been clamouring for it for years. Finally, the Origin Systems catalogue of titles has come to Good Old Games (GOG), beginning with the Underworld games.
UltimaForever.Com Launches (For Real, This Time!)
After leaking a couple days early, the UltimaForever.com website has gone livem offering a little bit of Ultima history and a free download of Ultima 4.
Richard Garriott's 2011 LOGIN Keynote Speech: Three Eras of Gaming
Richard Garriott delivered the keynote speech at the LOGIN 2011 conference, in which he articulated his belief that the “third era” of video games — casual, social gaming — is well underway.
Ultima Underworld for Sega Genesis?
A recently-unearthed video from the 1992 Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago reveals that a Sega Genesis-based port of Ultima Underworld was in the works for the Sega CD. Alas, it never saw the light of day.
The 100 Greatest Games of All Time? Well, No.
Fandomania has produced a list of their readers’ Top 100 Video Games of all time. Origin has a few entries on the list, but none near the top where some deserve to be.
New Gallery: Ultima 4 Town and City Maps
17 images from the Ultima 4 cluebook, The Way of the Avatar. Back in the day, Origin made some of the coolest cluebooks, and the quality of these city maps shows it.
New Gallery: Origin Museum Artifacts
Ultima Aiera is pleased to present over 100 photos of some of the more rare and fascinating items that the Origin Museum has collected, representing a wide swath of the history of the company and its products.
The Original Ultima Online World Map…I Finally Found It!
Thanks to Canadian sci-fi author Cory Doctorow, I finally rediscovered an old map of the original plan for Ultima Online’s game world, which included all four continents from the first Ultima game.
Underworld 2 And Memory Palaces
A fascinating, touching, introspective look at Ultima Underworld 2, an ancient technique for storing precious memories, and the intersection between the two.
