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The no longer anywhere near nightly open discussion thread at Ultima Aiera.
The no longer anywhere near nightly open discussion thread at Ultima Aiera.
Richard Garriott discusses Mars, Earth exploration, traveling in space, and of course what his next plan for revolutionizing gaming and RPGs is, in a lengthy interview with Motherboard.
NASA has evidently relented, to some extent, and will at some point green-light the release of Richard Garriott’s “Apogee of Fear”, the first sci-fi movie ever shot in space.
The Richard Garriott-focused documentary Man on a Mission has been released, and naturally the online media has been exploding with stories about it and its subject, Lord British himself.
The Portalarium website was updated a while ago, with a slightly refined look and a new section concerning Richard Garriott’s “Ultimate RPG”. There’s not much there, but the logo will be at once familiar and new to Ultima fans.
History-of-interactive-entertainment blogger The Digital Antiquarian has published a series of articles about Richard Garriott, Akalabeth (the proto-Ultima!), and California Pacific, the company that gave Garriott his first big break.
Nathan Grayson, at PC Gamer, did a bit of digging and figured out just what went on between Richard Garriott and EA.
EA’s communications chief, Jeff Brown, has spoken out at IndustryGamers and stated that there have been no talks between EA and Richard Garriott…about Ultima Online, at least.
Richard Garriott, in yet another interview with Eurogamer, discusses some of the issues surrounding what he regards as the failure of Ultima 8. Oh, and something about Tabula Rasa.
Richard Garriott turned up at the Seattle Museum of Flight to celebrate the unveiling of the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery.