An interesting Twitter post by BioWare Mythic’s Ultima Franchise Producer, Jeff Skalski. It seems there are plans afoot to release some new UO and Ultima related apparel in the coming months. Those who follow...
The first part of Richard Garriott’s interview with Stratics has been posted. It covers Portalarium and Ultimate Collector…and more.
A short retrospective about Richard Garriott at The Gamer’s Hub.
Paul Sage, for those who don’t know, worked on Ultima Online at Mythic Entertainment, and is now the creative director for The Elder Scrolls Online.
Kevin Fishburne has made numerous improvements to Sanctimonia, his Ultima-inspired open source MMORPG, over the last three months.
Project Drake is, or will be, a hybrid 2D/3D online RPG intended as a spiritual sequel to Ultima Online, among other games.
Ultima Codex is now an official UO Fansite, and it’s also mentioned right there on the front page of the UO Herald.
A truly impressive map of Britannia by Ashlynn the Cartographer of the PaxLair Times.
A profesionally-produced web-based cartoon series about the trials and online adventures of MMORPG noobs.
The games comprising the Ultima series were, between 1981 and 1999, the defining computer role-playing games. Both the Western and Eastern RPG “schools”, if that is an appropriate term for them, were heavily inspired by the Ultima games, and still feature numerous gameplay and interface conventions that one Ultima or another introduced.
Ultima Online (UO) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Origin Systems, which launched on September 24, 1997. It can’t claim to be the first graphical MMO, it can rightly claim to be one of the defining titles of the genre, and continues to run to this day.
