Ultima Online: Publish and Patch Today
Broadsword Online Games will be releasing a patch for Ultima Online today to fix a Japanese cliloc error, as well as a publish that changes how 14th Anniversary Shard Shields work.
Tagged: Ultima Online
Check Out the Broadsword Online Games Offices
If you want to see the digs the Ultima Online development team are working in these days, Broadsword Online Games just uploaded some photos you’ll want to check out.
Pimps and Dragons: Ultima Online Profiled in The New Yorker, Circa 2001
A 2001 article from news magazine The New Yorker’s “Department of Gaming”, which looks at the development and culture of Ultima Online.
Ultima Online: Publish 86.0.1 Live on TC1
Broadsword Online Games have released a small patch for Ultima Online’s Publish 86, which should now be live on the Test Center shard.
Ultima Online: Publish 86 Live on TC1, Launches Vice vs. Virtue PVP Event
Broadsword Online Games have released Publish 86 onto Ultima Online’s Test Center shard. The main event it kicks off is the “Vice vs. Virtue” faction-vs.-faction PvP event.
Sean Malstrom Doesn’t Like Shroud of the Avatar
Typed dialogue and a wide variety of house options aren’t everyone’s mug of ale: “For what is wrong, it is what I hear from people who bought into the alpha…An example is dialogue. You...
How Ultima Online Convinced CCP That EVE Online Would Work
Via Eurogamer: “…within months of CCP springing into existence, Origin and EA released Richard Garriott’s Ultima Online. For [Thorolfur Beck], fearing they had been beaten to the market, it seemed like the end of...
Ultima Online: Producer Note Regarding Publish 86
Ultima Online producer Bonnie Armstrong posted some information as to the status of Publish 86 and when players will be able to try out aspects thereof.
EA’s CEO on Dungeon Keeper: “There was a Disconnect there..” (UK Update)
Eurogamer.net has a very revealing interview with Andrew Wilson, EA CEO, concerning the Dungeon Keeper reboot.
Ten Ton Hammer: On Looting Houses in Ultima Online (Also, Shroud of the Avatar Won’t Have That)
Over at Ten Ton Hammer, in an opinion piece about looting player houses in Ultima Online, Richard Garriott is quoted (sort of) as saying that this practice will not be in Shroud of the Avatar.
Mythic’s Final Months: Seven Game Prototypes and Another Classic Franchise
In which we examine some hints, from LinkedIn, as to what may have been going on at Mythic in the studio’s final months.
