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Keeping track of how Electronic Arts names its studios is difficult, considering that subdivisions are shuffled around and renamed quite often. EA acquired Mythic Entertainment and renamed them Bioware Mythic. In a post on the Warhammer Online website, Mythic has announced that it is divorcing itself from the Bioware name. From now on, you can [...]
Archive for the ‘Ultima Online’ Category
Ultima Online Ask & Answer #6
October 15th, 2012 
Omali Ultima Online has published the sixth Ask & Answer and there are some interesting questions for gamers, regardless of whether you play Ultima Online or not. For instance, did you know Ultima Online doesn’t have a full personal message system in place? The team is working on one, according to the Q&A. In addition to [...]
Taco Tuesday: Four MMO Revival Pitches
September 19th, 2012 Omali Welcome to Tuesday, there are trays at the front of the line and plenty of tacos to go around. Due to the past few weeks sucking up most, if not all, of the Greenlight and Kickstarter MMOs, you may be glad to hear we are shifting paradigm to having a real discussion. So on to [...]
Return To Britannia In September
September 3rd, 2012 Omali Fifteen is a big number for any video game to still receive regular support and updates, but Ultima Online has been trucking along since its launch in September 1997. Actually these days it seems like five is a high number for many MMOs to still receive regular updates. Still, the fact that Ultima Online is [...]
Ultima Online Producer: Support Ultima For Ultima 2
August 24th, 2012 Omali It’s easy to forget sometimes that Ultima Online is still with us. After all, the game enjoys a healthy but quiet community, and the idea that Ultima Online 2 could be a reality was mostly given up on some time ago. Still, the reveal of Ultima Forever, the remake of Ultima 4 as a free [...]
Play Richard Garriot’s MMO While It Is Developed…
December 12th, 2011 Omali There are a select few articles here on MMO Fallout that garner attention after, say, six months of their publishing. It’s been ten months since I published the article about Second Star Interactive, a new development studio formed out arguably the greater minds of Ultima Online, Warhammer, and Dark Age of Camelot, and that article [...]
Appeals Court Rules In Favor of Richard Garriot
October 25th, 2011 Omali Backstory: Richard Garriot partnered with NCsoft to create Tabula Rasa, a sci-fi shooter MMO that rather famously launched in late 2007 and shut down in early 2009 following a poor reception. Before Tabula Rasa shut down, however, NCsoft published a letter of resignation purportedly from Richard Garriot that he was leaving the company to pursue other [...]
Ultima Online Going Pokemon Model, Favors Booster Packs
September 30th, 2010 Omali For a game that launched thirteen years ago, Ultima Online is still doing well for itself as one of the few MMOs on the market to bring competition to the Everquests in the field of “how many paid expansions can we pump out?” Ultima Online this past year saw the release of Stygian Abyss, a [...]
Ultima Online: We Love New Players…For Dinner.
August 6th, 2010 Omali So technically it’s been years since a romp through Ultima Online meant quickly being chewed up, spit out, stomped on, cremated, and then having your stuff stolen by the many denizens of Lord British’s lands, but the idea still stands. Bioware Mythic would love to have you for dinner, so much so that new players [...]
EA: Microtransactions Through Live Gamer
July 27th, 2010 Omali Those of you who are acquainted with Sony Online Entertainment are likely aware of Live Gamer, the “legit” real money trading website where players can buy and sell characters, gold, and more between each other without fear of getting scammed by some guy sitting in China watching ten WoW bots do their work. Currently, the [...]
