Richard Garriott tells how Lord British and Ultima were born (video)
The seeds of Lord British and the Ultima universe were planted in a D&D dungeon that Richard Garriott turned in as a high school English paper.
Brian Fargo (Torment) and Richard Garriott (Shroud of the Avatar) speak about each other’s Kickstarters
The men behind two of the biggest recent crowdfunding projects speak out about one another's games.
How Richard Garriott’s RPGs evolved from Ultima to Shroud of the Avatar (video)
Richard Garriott shows how his old style of making hex-based maps carries over to the new fantasy role-playing game universe.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: SimCity plagued by server issues, Ubisoft does not condone whaling
This week, SimCity launches but suffers catastrophic sever issues, PETA claims Ubisoft is glorifying whaling in Assassin’s Creed IV, and Boy Scouts can now...
Lord British returns with his first new role-playing game in 15 years
Richard Garriott is returning today with a new role-playing game and a Kickstarter campaign. Shroud of the Avatar is the spiritual successor of Ultima.
The DeanBeat: The revenge of the old farts who outlast evil and survive in the games business
If you've put your 10,000 hours of training in, the video game business is not a bad place to be.
Games and industry figures discuss Election 2012
GamesBeat would like to remind its American readers that your civic duty entails more than just buying Halo 4. So put down that controller and go vote for the next president of the United States!
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Richard Garriott, PAX Prime 2012, and insane Japanese commercials
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Zynga publishing Richard Garriott’s Ultimate Collector game on Facebook
Richard Garriott's new game, Ultimate Collector, will be published by Zynga on Facebook.
For Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One, success is measured in DeLoreans and geeked-out fans
Ernest Cline is going where no geek has gone before with his latest book tour and contest that features a real DeLorean as the prize.