New owner says don’t worry about Origin Museum game items being auctioned
Sheri Graner Ray was distressed recently when she saw that someone was selling artifacts from The Origin Museum on eBay. The Origin Museum was...
Richard Bartle and Richard Garriott: How humans should treat advanced AI characters
Pretty soon, we might all be the new citizens of the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels...
Getting busted by Lord British while chasing bugs in Ultima Online
The new book Braving Britannia: Tales of Melancholy, Malice, and Peril in Ultima Online is a “sequel” to 2018’s Braving Britannia: Tales of Life, Love,...
EA hated Ultima Online until it didn’t
Ultima Online was a landmark game for the industry, setting a standard for persistent, online worlds and paving the way for the massively multiplayer...
Game Developers Conference 2018 will host an Ultima Online postmortem with Richard Garriott
The Game Developers Conference announced today that its next event will feature a postmortem on Ultima Online with producer Richard Garriott de Cayeux, director...
Break Out: Ultima III and the familial origins of Origin Systems
The following excerpt comes from Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution by David L. Craddock, available in hardcover from...
Richard Garriott’s Shroud of the Avatar gets publishing help from Travian Games
Shroud of the Avatar has been chugging along in its Early Access testing state since 2013 as Richard “Lord British” Garriott’s gang at Portalarium...
Ultima creator Richard Garriott looks back on nearly four decades making video games
Richard Garriott has had a wonderful life in video games. But the founder of Portalarium and creator of the Ultima series has also done...
The DeanBeat: 9 industry leaders sound off on the state of gaming in 2017
Interviewing some of the wisest people in the game industry is a fun part of my job. Over the past few weeks, at the Electronic...
The DeanBeat: Why making great games takes time
One of the most awkward introductions I’ve ever had to a game developer was with Dino Patti, a founder of a game studio called Playdead,...