Richard Garriott: "Kids today!"
Ultima creator and private astronaut Richard Garriott has issued a short response, on Twitter, to this bit of admittedly sorry news. His opener: And a follow-up comment: I think most of my own thoughts...
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Mythic Entertainment working on DOSboxed version of Wing Commander (updated)
Updated with new tweets from Barnett; original post below. First, it looks like he’ll be presenting the idea to BioWare honcho Ray Muzyka today: And he even teases the possibility of a free release:...
14,000 players: Ultima 4 Flash Version
According to a briefly visible revision to the Ultima 4 entry at the Codex of Editable Wisdom, Blair Leggett’s Flash-based port of Ultima 4 has had over distinct 14,000 players between May and September...
Richard Garriott: "Since everybody else is doing Flash and Java games, I can kick their ass pretty easy."
Ultima creator and private astronaut Richard Garriott, who recently co-founded Portalarium, has got a new game in the works. Richard Garriott delivered the keynote at Fantastic Fest’s inaugural Fantastic Arcade event in Austin today....
Ultima 4…unplayable?
The Brainy Gamer — who in real life teaches a class in which he periodically subjects his students to classic computer games like Fallout and Planetfall — has written an interesting article that really...
Anybody got a spare copy of Savage Empire or Martian Dreams?
[singlepic id=93 w=300 h=217 float=right]As was reported yesterday, Mythic Entertainment has been in talks with the developers of DOSbox; I received word this morning from Paul Barnett that Mythic has been given the OK...
Restored: Ultima 1 to 5 Savegame Editor
Xenerkes Dragon’s editor for savegame files from the first few Ultima titles is once again available for download.
Mythic Entertainment talking to DOSbox
Not that I stalk Paul Barnett’s Twitter feed or anything*: A bit over a month ago now (if memory serves), I downloaded the Commander Keen series off of Steam, and noticed how iD Software...
EA CEO John Riccitiello: "It was definitely our fault."
[singlepic id=91 w=250 h=114 float=right]Okay, he isn’t talking about any of the Ultima games; he’s talking about the Need for Speed series. But for anyone who has ever lamented the fact that EA did...
Looking for a 3D artist and a quote for some work
This isn’t Ultima-related, specifically. However, a friend of a friend of mine is looking for a 3D modeler who would be willing to whip up about ten 3D models — just flat-colour models against...
Playing computer games…not actually bad for your marks!
Your parents were wrong. A new study from the University of Maryland shows that more time spent in front of a computer doesn’t hurt a child’s academic performance, and, in some cases, actually improves...
