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Ultima Creator Richard Garriott’s Blockchain MMO Is Selling Real Estate NFTs
4Richard Garriot, the creator of the Ultima series of classic RPGs and part-time astronaut, has a new project. It’s called Iron & Magic, a blockchain MMO, and has just unveiled its official website. Initially spotted by Massively OP, the site lists a series of terrain squares among the screenshots and digital fly-throughs of fantasy environments.…
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Talking MMORPGs, From Ultima Online To Amazon’s New World
For nearly three and a half decades, massively multiplayer online role-playing game fans have been wandering the digital wilderness, chopping down trees, hunting for boars, and getting murdered by other players while doing so. We did it in Ultima Online back in 1997, and we’re doing it in Amazon’s new MMORPG today. What’s so appealing…
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Searching For Scorpia: Whatever Happened To Gaming’s First Celebrity Critic?
I was recently stumbling my way through Wikipedia, bouncing from page to page, consuming information like the academic hungry caterpillar that I am, when I found a quote from a review of an old PC game called Times of Lore. The words of the review itself were not what piqued my curioisity as much as…
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Could A Video Game Start A Religion?
I’m a confirmed believer in the church of video games, a sect whose faith has been rewarded over the past decade, as games have sailed easily over the hurdles that have been placed in front of them by the apostates. No one really disputes anymore that games can make us cry, make us laugh, teach…