I totally missed the Titans of Ether's December Update
Actually, I think I saw a note about this at Dino’s, but never followed up on it. My bad. Anyhow, the Titans seem to have had a relatively quiet December. Zini was tied up...
Tagged: Ultima 9
Beautiful Britannia: New Flowers!
Firstknight sent me another fantastic Beautiful Britannia screenshot by email, and wanted to draw attention to a couple of particular features thereof. He writes: “The screen shows not only the new [texture] transitions, but...
New video: an Ultima Online demo reel…from 2004!
Ultima Aiera is pleased to present this demo reel — which was apparently only ever released internally at Electronic Arts and whatever studio was doing the development (Mythic Entertainment?) — from a second attempt...
A Beautiful Britannia 2011 R2 teaser image
Firstknight is continuing to make progress upgrading the textures for Ultima 9, and is on course for a roughly summertime release. And to tease you all, he offers this side-by-side comparison of screenshots, showing...
New Gallery: Ultima 9 Manual Images
And speaking of Ultima 9… Courtesy of Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum, and thanks to the hard work of both him and the team at the Wing Commander CIC, Ultima Aiera is pleased...
Beautiful Britannia…is now officially about more than just plants!
Don’t believe me? Feast your eyes on this: Now, Firstknight cautions that it will probably be a few months before we see the next update, though in his short news post he comments that...
New U9BB.EXE provides a fogless experience!
Firstknight sends the following by email: Finally, after many many hours of intensive research for more than one year, I can present Beautiful Britannia in a new, completely fogless experience, on any system up...
Beautiful Britannia 2011 vs 2010 Comparison
I posted news about the release of Beautiful Britannia 2011 R1 last week, and was suitably impressed by the list of details that Firstknight sent my way concerning the changes he’d made. But I...
Titans of Ether November update
As in November 2010. But whatever. Anyhow, the penultimate month of 2010 was a fairly productive one for the Titans. Zini finished his work on their smithing system, so sword and armour forging is...
Beautiful Britannia 2011 R1 released!
Well, isn’t it a happy new year? Firstknight surprised me overnight by uploading his latest release of Beautiful Britannia, which focuses on improving texture quality and playability in Yew. As you can see from...
Forgotten World: Minoc music and a new screenshot!
Since posting their Christmas gift to Ultima fans, the team at Forgotten World have posted a couple of additional updates, including another screenshot and a small revision to their v1.19f and 1.19G patches. First,...
