• 
• Main
  • Latest News
  • Old News
  • About
  • Credits
  • Contact
• Links
  • WebDB2
  • Hosted Sites
• Information
  • General
  • Ultima I
  • Ultima II
  • Ultima III
  • Ultima IV
  • Ultima V
  • Ultima VI
  • Savage Empire
  • Martian Dreams
  • Underworld I
  • Ultima VII
  • Underworld II
  • Serpent Isle
  • Ultima VIII
  • Ultima IX
  • Mount Drash
• 0xdeadbeef
  • Ultima X
  • Lord of Ultima
• 

News

News articles

Various news

11th December 2010 by Dino

In this week's awesome screenshot, the Forgotten World team show off their mesh viewer:

Iceblade writes: "Now for this week's Awesome screen, I present an screenshot of the current incarnation of our Mesh Viewer. As any interested programmers should note, much of the ground work for our primary editor is completed except for the editing of file information. We have made great strides in the best few months in defining many of the remaining unknowns of the map files, so the task of finishing the editor is largely implementation rather than map file decoding.

"So we still very much need a C++ programmer. Also, we have a need for a texture artist."

Wizardry Dragon from The Feudal Lands has finally recovered from his laptop crash and will be resuming work on the project.

As always, the contributors of The Codex of Ultima Wisdom have been hard at work:

• The hard work continues despite our October 26th move from Wikia.
• Our new user Blu3vib3 had been extensively rewriting articles. Her work is fantastic.
• We've been expanding upon Ultima Online.
• Shops for Ultima III, Ultima V, and Ultima IX, and have been written, and Ultima V: Lazarus Portraits have been added.
• Further navigation and categorization improvements have also been underway.

I got an email from Lord of Ultima announcing the release of their "Forge of Virtue" expansion:

FORGE OF VIRTUE IS HERE!

Our latest Game Update brings you a quest of epic proportions!
This is your last chance to become the Lord of Ultima!
Forge of Virtue introduces a host of amazing new features:

LORD OF ULTIMA QUEST

Giving you and your alliance the chance to become the Lord of Ultima

THE TRADE MINISTER

Take advantage of his awesome features. He will be your greatest asset when it comes to managing your resources

BETTER GRAPHICS, MUSIC AND SOUND

Enjoy an entirely new experience with enhanced graphics, an epic soundtrack and great sound effects

So since this is amazing, epic, awesome and whatnot, and you also get to become the Lord of Ultima (yawn), I guess you can't afford to miss out, right? Right?

And now for some more news from Aiera, where Withstand the Fury Dragon has been doing a great job at keeping abreast with all the recent Ultima and general gaming news:

• Fearyourself has made progress on Back to Roots, having added almost all NPCs as well as all cities, towns and castles. He will be working on support for Ultima 5 before adding combat. However he is currently hunting for technical information about Ultima 5.
• Apparently people are playing more games on their mobile phones and less on dedicated handheld consoles such as the PSP.
• EA have cancelled another game, preferring this solution over releasing a buggy game. Is this a good thing? Discuss.
• An EA artist apparently has some Ultima Online 2 Creature and Character Models in his portfolio. Check them out!
• Added: Avatar Minecraft character skin.
• The theme music for Civilization IV has been nominated for a Grammy award.
• Added: The Pits of Carnage (from UW2) for Unreal and for Unreal Tournament.
• Apparently Mass Effect 3 is on the way.