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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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Crowfall: Raph Koster Collaborating With ArtCraft Entertainment (Updated)
Those of you who were/are fans of Ultima Online, and who have not yet been looking at Crowfall with any significant degree of interest, may want to give ArtCraft Entertainment’s upcoming MMORPG a bit...
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Crowfall: Kickstarter Campaign Reaches Over 50% of Goal On Day One
The Crowfall Kickstarter campaign went live this morning, and thus far has raised (as of this writing) 57% of its $800,000 goal. Which, really, is a very impressive first-day performance for any...
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Shroud of the Avatar – Update of the Avatar #114
Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar: Play Release 15 Now! Underworld Funded – Now Entering Final Week! Crowfall Kickstarter Funded in 3...
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Shroud of the Avatar: Update of the Avatar #115
Greetings Friends and Fellow Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar: Community Sponsored Decoration Contest Abe’s Overworld Work-in-Progress Release...
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Spam Spam Spam Humbug: Episode 2 Live
Item creation is not a feature.The second episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug, the Ultima Codex podcast, is now live, and is also available here for download. In this episode, I offer some comments on...
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Richard Garriott Interviewed in “Online Game Pioneers at Work”
Richard Garriott was one of fifteen computer game development pioneers interviewed in Morgan’s Ramsay new book, Online Game Pioneers at Work. Ramsay’s first book, Gamers at Work: Stories Behind the...
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Check Out Raph Koster’s New Book: Sunday Poems
Raph Koster — Designer Dragon, and one of the key architects of Ultima Online — started publishing poems on his personal website, every Sunday, back in 2005. (It may surprise you to learn that, in...
View ArticleRaph Koster Discusses Privateer Online
Raph Koster, inspired by the excitement surrounding No Man’s Sky, wrote a blog post about his work on a version of Privateer Online, which was ultimately cancelled. It makes for an interesting read, as...
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Spam Spam Spam Humbug: Episode 47- Pokemon Go; Could an Ultima ARG Work?
Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on Android | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on PodbeanDownload Now! Nintendo, in partnership with developers Niantic, released Pokémon GO...
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An Ultima Return Team Member Is Re-Creating Ultima Online’s Britannia in Wurm...
For those of you unfamiliar with Wurm Online, it is one of the plethora of 3D MMORPGs that exist nowadays, which bills itself as “the MMORPG where the players are in charge…one of the only Sandbox MMOs...
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Spam Spam Spam Humbug: Episode 83 – What’s In a Game?
Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on AndroidDownload Now! Springboarding, more or less, from this article...
View ArticleRaph Koster Wants Your Ultima Online Questions
Raph Koster – Designer Dragon – should be well known to all of you reading this; he was one of the minds behind the original design of Ultima Online, and devised many of the systems that the game...
View ArticleSpam Spam Spam Humbug: Episode 90 – Ultima Online Turns 20 (With Raph Koster)
Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on AndroidDownload Now! So it has been far, far too long since we last...
View ArticleRaph Koster on Ultima Online’s Influence
Raph Koster — the original systems designer for Ultima Online — offered, you’ll hopefully recall, to answer questions about that game as a way of marking its 20th anniversary, which milestone was...
View ArticleSpam Spam Spam Humbug: Episode 91 – Ultima Online Again (With Raph Koster)
Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on AndroidDownload Now! So it has been far, far too long since we last...
View ArticleRaph Koster Has a New Book Out: Postmortems
Raph Koster has some big news: he has just published a new book, entitled Postmortems, which contains articles, stories, and essays about his career in the gaming industry and the various titles he has...
View ArticleSpam Spam Spam Humbug 129.5 – The Book Betrayer
Subscribe on Anchor | Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) This episode begins with Sir Klaus launching...
View ArticleSpam Spam Spam Humbug 130 – Let’s All Play The Outer Worlds
Subscribe on Anchor | Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) The main topic of this episode is — far and...
View ArticleSpam Spam Spam Humbug 141 – Nox Archaist Does Impossible Things With the...
Subscribe on Anchor | Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on Spotify | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) This episode is a...
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