Tagged: Ultima

Lord of Ultima officially released

Lord of Ultima officially released

As noted by the guys at WCCIC, Electronic Arts has announced that Lord of Ultima has been officially released. REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.–(BUSSINES WIRE)–Phenomic™, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) studio, announced today Lord of Ultima™,...

Rebuilding Exult?

Rebuilding Exult?

There’s been a fair bit of talk and buzz about Exult lately, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that Exult development has really picked up lately. Some of the different platforms have really gotten some well-needed attention lately which has also been something of a shot in the arm to both the engine development and the community as a whole. Read more for the whole story…

Work in Game Development!

Work in Game Development!

Our good friend who is (slowly, but surely) working on building Classic Ultima Online, who by day works for Turbine, has alerted me to the fact that at present, the company is looking to...

So by now everyone's heard of Portalarium

So by now everyone's heard of Portalarium

And if not: have you been living under a rock, and/or what colour is the sky on your planet, and also…welcome to Earth. Okay, somewhat more seriously, Portalarium is “an online ecosystem of shared...

Let's Play Ultima 6!

Let's Play Ultima 6!

First, it was Ultima 7. Then, it was Lazarus. Now, the “Let’s Play Ultima” craze, which has slowly been making its way across YouTube and across the series, has reached my personal favourite amongst...

Return to the Serpent Isle

Return to the Serpent Isle

Sergorn Dragon has just re-launched a project idea he’s had for a few years now: Return to the Serpent Isle. Using the Neverwinter Nights 2 engine, this project is not a remake, but rather...

Lord of Ultima

Lord of Ultima

Toltec Dragon alerted me to this new game from EA, which appears to be an online strategy game set in the Ultima universe. It’s being developed by EA Phenomic, who made Battleforge…so there’s some...

Stuff I read in the Exult forums

Stuff I read in the Exult forums

I sometimes forget to check the Exult forums for a few weeks at a time, which I really shouldn’t do. Forget, that is…shouldn’t forget. Like as not, those forums are the hub of much...

Calling all cartographers!

Calling all cartographers!

Now there’s a sentence one doesn’t usually expect to type. Mark Mitchell contacted me a couple months ago, and then again just this week, to inform me of his ambitious project to create a...