ultima
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The Story Behind Ultima’s Morality
9When 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 platforms.
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You Can Now Play The Original Ultima In Board Game Form
You should play more board games. No, I don’t care if you crack out Settlers of Catan on a nightly basis, or if your flatmates want to kill your because you’re up at two in the morning owning newbs with your Big Money strategy in Dominion. If you don’t want to buy more, you can…
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These Games Made You: Classics That Inspired A New Video Game Novel
Like many of us, Austin Grossman has lived with video games his whole life. But, like a lot fewer of us, he went on make them, working as a writer and a designer on beloved titles like Deus Ex and Dishonored. Yesterday, his literary love letter to the medium — a novel called You —…
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Ultima Creator Wants To Revolutionise Video Game RPGs Again
The man known as Lord British has been from video games a long time. Yeah, he’s had the whole space travel thing going on. And there was a messy bit of business where he got half a million dollars stolen from him to by fancy magician paraphernalia. But it seemed really weird that Richard Garriott…