Extra Lives: Ultima Retrospective Series
Reggie C., blogging at Extra Lives, has penned a truly excellent retrospective of the entire Ultima series, spread across a number of articles.
Tagged: Ultima Underworld 2
Origin Systems Manual Art and Paintings by Chris “Binky” Launius
Chris “Binky” Launius kindly allowed the Ultima Codex to re-post photographs of his collection of Origin Systems booklets and paintings.
Complex Bafflingly Lists Ultima Underworld 2 As Only the 40th Best Game of All Time
Complex’s list of the top 50 games of all time…really doesn’t give Ultima that much credit.
GOG’s Weekend Promo Is a Massive EA Sale
Why not round out that EA collection you’ve been working on? GOG has EA games on for a 60% discount!
Pix’s Ultima Patcher Updated With MT-32 Support (And Now Ultima 9, Too!)
Pix has updated his Ultima Patcher again; it will now add Forgotten World’s latest patch (among others) to an installation of Ultima 9.
All Ultima Titles On Sale at GOG This Weekend (Wing Commander Too!)
GOG.com have put all of the Ultima and Wing Commander games on sale this weekend. Pick up the entire collection for under $30!
Patches & Updates for the GOG.com Ultima Releases
A quick look at some of the patches and updates for the Ultima titles presently available on Good Old Games, all of which should work with the GOG.com versions of the games.
About the Ultima Series
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.
The GAMBIT Looking Glass Studios Podcasts!
MIT’s GAMBIT Game Labs is featuring a series of podcasts with former key people from Looking Glass Studios.
Just How Awesome Was Looking Glass Studios?
Feed the Gamer looks at Looking Glass Studios’ short but storied history.
