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Get (Most Of) the Ultima Series on EA’s Origin Store
Not to worry: you can still get all the Ultima games, DRM-free, at GOG. But as of…well, very recently…Electronic Arts has begun adding titles from the Origin Systems catalogue to their...
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The Ultima 9 Product Page on EA’s Origin Store Uses Box Art Made By an Ultima...
If you go to the Ultima 9 page on EA’s Origin digital storefront, you will see this box art displayed there: Well, as it turns out, this art doesn’t come directly from any of the materials that would...
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Ultima 7 Added to EA’s Origin Digital Storefront
Electronic Arts added the other Ultima games to the Origin digital storefront last week, but Ultima 7 was noticeably absent from the product listings there. As of today (or possibly yesterday),...
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PC Gamer: Interview with Richard Garriott and Starr Long About Shroud of the...
PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon caught up with Richard Garriott and Starr Long at E3 last week and was able to conduct an on-the-spot interview with him. Garriott had some…less than flattering things to say...
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EA’s CEO on Dungeon Keeper: “There was a Disconnect there..” (UK Update)
Eurogamer.net has a very revealing interview with Andrew Wilson, EA CEO, concerning the Dungeon Keeper reboot. While Mythic as a studio isn’t specifically discussed by Wilson, when you read between...
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The Digital Antiquarian: The Road to (Ultima) IV
The Digital Antiquarian has once again returned his attentions to the history of Origin Systems and the Ultima series, this time with the first of a series of articles examining Ultima 4. As is his...
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EA Mobile’s Frank Gibeau: “Dungeon Keeper suffered from a few things.”
Following on the heels of comments from EA’s CEO, EA Mobile head Frank Gibeau shared his thoughts on the failure of Mythic’s Dungeon Keeper reboot for mobile, and acknowledged that the game suffered...
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Pimps and Dragons: Ultima Online Profiled in The New Yorker, Circa 2001
One could say more for its formatting, but there’s no doubt that this lengthy look at the development history and in-game culture of Ultima Online, which was featured in The New Yorker’s “Department...
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Eurogamer Interviews Paul Neurath about Underworld Ascension
There’s a new interview with OtherSide Entertainment’s Paul Neurath over at Eurogamer, in which the former Looking Glass co-founder elaborates on the nature of his agreement (with EA) to use the...
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Ultima Forever: August 29th Online Services Shutdown Announced
The Weep prevails: Strangers, Seekers and Avatars all, While the past year has certainly been quite the adventure – in Britannia and beyond! – that adventure is now drawing to a close, as the time has...
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It’s the Ultima Codex’s Tenth Anniversary
If you can believe it, the first incarnation of Ultima: Aiera (yes, it had a colon in the name back then) went live on August 9th, 2004. Which means I’m observing the anniversary a day late — a first...
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Ultima Forever: Blackthorn’s Castle (Foyer)
Blackthorn’s Castle was a planned location within Ultima Forever more or less from the game’s inception. In fact, Mythic’s idea for his inclusion in the game was to show the first hints of his...
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Let’s Make August 28th “Play Ultima Forever Day”
There seems to be some confusion between EA’s Online Service Updates page — which lists August 28th as the date on which Ultima Forever will be taken offline — and the Ultima Forever Twitter account...
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Mythic’s Ultima Forever will be going offline either on this day or the day following. What say we all — or as many of us who can — give the game one last, long play session before the end? The Ultima...
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As of Aug 29th 2014 (11:00 AM EDT), Ultima Forever will be shutting down its online services, and will no longer be available to play. To thank everyone for their loyalty and support, for its last...
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EA (Sold? Gave? Licensed?) Wing Commander to Piranha Games…And They Didn’t...
Our friends at the Wing Commander CIC reported yesterday about the announcement of Piranha Games’ Transverse, a multiplayer, online, space combat sim. The basic premise of the game is, I gather, thus:...
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Buy the Box for Ultima 8’s Expansion, The Lost Vale, on eBay
The history of The Lost Vale, the never-released expansion for Ultima 8, should be well-enough known to Ultima fans. It was cancelled at the every end of its development, supposedly after the gold...
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Ultima Online: Lord British Returns to the Lore
Last week, a story was posted to the Ultima Online website, a new piece of lore that will presumably serve as backstory for future in-game events (or so I assume) written by EM Drosselmeyer. It’s a...
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The Ultima Forever Forums Are Offline…Basically
It was bound to happen sooner or later, and to be fair I’m not quite sure when it did happen. But all the same, the Ultima Forever forums have been put into permanent maintenance mode. Now, only a...
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Thus Ends the Transverse Crowdfunding Campaign
The crowdfunding campaign for Piranha Games’ Star Citizen clone (or their improvement upon the idea of Wing Commander Online, assuming they ever even had the Wing Commander license in the the first...
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