Richard Garriott's Next Game: Ultimate Collector: Garage Sale
Richard Garriott’s new company, Portalarium, has announced its next game: Ultimate Collector. It’s a game about garage sales, basically.
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In a previous decade, Origin would have dominated this sort of list
By which, of course, I mean a list of the top ten games of the previous decade. Were it a list about the period between…say…1990 and 2000, you’d basically have every main-series Ultima title...
EA's new Facebook game: Dragon Age Legends
Well, here’s one title that will benefit from the new EA/Facebook agreement! And as Joystiq reports, playing Dragon Age: Legends will have net you some extra content in Dragon Age 2 (though what, exactly,...
Game conveniences we take for granted
Apropos of this, this list of the “Top 10 Current-Gen Conveniences We Take For Granted” from GameFAQs seems relevant. For example: #6: Objective Markers Remember how in old RPGs, you would be told to...
25th anniveraries abound!
Nintendo has announced a special red Wii version to mark the 25th anniversary of the Mario franchise; the first Super Mario Brothers game released on September 13, 1985. Interestingly enough, just three days later,...
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...
Richard Garriott: "Since everybody else is doing Flash and Java games, I can kick their ass pretty easy."
Ultima creator and private astronaut Richard Garriott, who recently co-founded Portalarium, has got a new game in the works. Richard Garriott delivered the keynote at Fantastic Fest’s inaugural Fantastic Arcade event in Austin today....
Ultima 4…unplayable?
The Brainy Gamer — who in real life teaches a class in which he periodically subjects his students to classic computer games like Fallout and Planetfall — has written an interesting article that really...
Playing computer games…not actually bad for your marks!
Your parents were wrong. A new study from the University of Maryland shows that more time spent in front of a computer doesn’t hurt a child’s academic performance, and, in some cases, actually improves...
