Tagged: Ultima 7

New Project: Ultima Obscura

New Project: Ultima Obscura

And remember: the first annual Aiera Thanksgiveaway is still on! This is an interesting-looking project, though still in the conceptual stage. It bills itself as “complete and total re-imagining of the entire linear canonical...

Added: Britannia Map for The Moon Project

Added: Britannia Map for The Moon Project

What is it? It’s a recreation, by Ryan “Zerker” Armstrong, of the entire world from Ultima 7 for The Moon Project, a science fiction RTS released in 2000 as a sequel to the excellent...

Spoony's review of Ultima 6: not entirely fair?

Spoony's review of Ultima 6: not entirely fair?

Sadly, he isn’t all that kind to that which I count as my favourite Ultima title: I don’t share many of Spoony’s criticisms, although that is partly due to the fact that, per the...

Style thyself as a Knight of Monitor

Style thyself as a Knight of Monitor

I tweeted a link to YouTube user Resulka‘s “secret lost” thirty-ninth episode of her playthrough of Serpent Isle. (Resulka self-describes as “[y]et another LP-er with a propensity for vintage gaming,” and she certainly makes...

New Gallery: Ultima Remakes in PC Games magazine

New Gallery: Ultima Remakes in PC Games magazine

Courtesy of Dominus (whom most of you should know from Exult and Pentagram), Ultima Aiera is pleased to present five scanned pages from a recent edition of PC Games, a German magazine devoted to...

Exult Updated

Exult Updated

After almost two years of no news (and infrequent snapshot updates), the Exult team have announced the release of Exult 1.4.9 RC1 for Windows and Mac, their latest build and the precursor to Exult...

Bill Armintrout on the original Serpent Isle

Bill Armintrout on the original Serpent Isle

Sergorn Dragon wasn’t just continuing his adventure in Serpent Isle last week; he was also digging up more information about the original design of the game, above and beyond the recently-released design documents. As...

New Gallery: Serpent Isle Original Design

New Gallery: Serpent Isle Original Design

Y724T2KRVUWP … IGNORE THIS I’ve been meaning to restore/overhaul the gallery here at Ultima Aiera for a while, and I can think of no better way to kick that process off — and to...

Restored: Blackrock Engine

Restored: Blackrock Engine

I know, I know…it’s not being developed anymore. I get that…it’s why I have a section called the Orphanage. That said, I’ve always hosted a download of the no-longer-under-development Blackrock Engine — an online...