Ultimate Ultima Collection for sale (6 days only!)
He’s asking $30,000 US for the whole lot, but trust me when I say: it is nothing short of an insane collection. Indeed, about the only thing he isn’t selling is a gold master...
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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: Bob White Plot Dungeons
Yes, Dragons and Dragonettes, an actual piece of the Bob White plot. I. Kid. You. Not. Courtesy of Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum, and to the hard work of both him and the...
Game conveniences we take for granted
Apropos of this, this list of the “Top 10 Current-Gen Conveniences We Take For Granted” from GameFAQs seems relevant. For example: #6: Objective Markers Remember how in old RPGs, you would be told to...
25th anniveraries abound!
Nintendo has announced a special red Wii version to mark the 25th anniversary of the Mario franchise; the first Super Mario Brothers game released on September 13, 1985. Interestingly enough, just three days later,...
Dragon Age 2 imports "the world"
[amazonify]B003UF9E0O:right[/amazonify]Joystiq reports that the lingering ambiguity over how BioWare’s Dragon Age 2 [pre-order] will handle character imports has been cleared up. …lead designer Mike Laidlaw revealed that while you don’t get to import your...
Wing Commander 2 being tested for re-release?
It seems like BioWare Mythic are pressing ahead with their project to get DOSboxed versions of the old Origin games — or, at least, the Wing Commander and Ultima series — re-released via digital...
Restored: Ultima Classics Revisited
This short-lived, ambitious project by prmths aimed to create engines, compatible with most modern operating systems, for the first six Ultima games (and Akalabeth). It…fell short of that goal, disappearing shortly after the release...
Birth Announcement: Cael Pearson
Commenter and contributor Saxon1974 dropped a comment to let us know that he and his wife have just welcomed their son into the world: Cael Pearson the future Ultima fan came into this world...
Warren Spector: Epic Mickey behind the scenes
Former Ultima developer and go-to keynote speaker these days Warren Spector discusses his latest project, the soon-to-be-released Epic Mickey: (via)
Ultima Underworld 2…is it really consistent with Ultima canon?
Sergorn Dragon stokes the fires of controversy, arguing that the Guardian as portrayed in Ultima Underworld 2 is inconsistent, in many respects, with the Guardian as portrayed in other Ultima titles…even Ultima 9: [No]...
