Latest Ultima News and Stories

Searching For Scorpia: Whatever Happened To Gaming’s First Celebrity Critic?

In Real Life

1 year ago

Searching For Scorpia: Whatever Happened To Gaming’s First Celebrity Critic?

Benjamin Burns

4

Here’s Ultima 7’s Lord British Hiding In A Secret ‘Cheat’ Room

Retro

3 years ago

Here’s Ultima 7’s Lord British Hiding In A Secret ‘Cheat’ Room

Logan Booker

3

In Real Life

3 years ago

The Story Behind Ultima’s Morality

Peter Tieryas

9

When I think back on the games I played growing up, the Ultima series stands out as one of the most unique and compelling. These open-world fantasy RPGs helped define and establish many of the standards of the genre through nine main instalments and multiple spin-offs on a variety of…

In Real Life

5 years ago

Could A Video Game Start A Religion?

Chris Suellentrop

17

Irony Sensors Explode As EA Shuts Down Ultima Forever

In Real Life

7 years ago

Irony Sensors Explode As EA Shuts Down Ultima Forever

Logan Booker

9

EA is learning an important lesson at the moment — you can’t take treasured franchises, add fun-crushing gameplay based on player skeletonisation and micro-transactions and expect people to blindly lap it up. True, it’s one EA will fail to understand, or simply ignore, but we can pray that one day,…

You Can Now Play The Original Ultima In Board Game Form

In Real Life

7 years ago

You Can Now Play The Original Ultima In Board Game Form

Logan Booker

It’s Nearly A Miracle That The New Ultima Exists

In Real Life

8 years ago

It’s Nearly A Miracle That The New Ultima Exists

Stephen Totilo

1

PC

8 years ago

11 Minutes Of Lord British’s New RPG, Narrated By The Man Himself

András Neltz

10

Shroud of the Avatar, Richard Garriott’s recently Kickstarted spiritual sequel to his Ultima RPG series, looks pretty damn good considering it’s currently just an early prototype. Here, Garriott narrates a short 11-minute walkthrough of some of the game’s features that they’ve been working on in the past few months.