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Video Game Designers Are Lazy, Says Richard Garriott

Richard Garriott, the creator of classic games like Ultima, believes that most of the designers working in the video game industry at the moment are lazy and less suited than programmers and artists to create new titles. The veteran developer believes that those who have skills in asset creation or in programming ca...

20 March 2013
09:12 GMT

Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues Is Not an MMO, Focuses on Friends

Richard Garriot, the designer of the recently announced Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, says that he is keen to create a video game experience that mixes elements taken from the single-player space with aspects of an MMO.The developer clarifies that gamers will never be asked to be always online to play the n...

11 March 2013
08:39 GMT

Ultima Forever Free-to-Play RPG Announced by BioWare

BioWare has just confirmed that its Mythic branch would launch another free-to-play role-playing game in the form of Ultima Forever, a revival of the first game in the long-running series. The Ultima series started way back in the 1980s and, since then, has seen the release of all sorts of installments, ranging from...

12 July 2012
04:42 GMT

Silicon Power Announces Ultima U03 USB Flash Drives

Well-known memory and SSD manufacturer, Taipei-headquartered company Silicon Power has just announced a new USB thumb drive with fashionable design. The new addition to Silicon Power’s flash drive product lineup is called Ultima U03 and features a “simple yet classic elegant design,” as the company...

6 July 2012
04:41 GMT

Electronic Arts Denies New Ultima Link to Richard Garriott

Despite claims from the original creator of the Ultima series publisher Electronic Arts says that it has no plans to work with him in any way on current or on future titles based on the franchise.Speaking earlier during the week Richard Garriott stated, “I would love to have access to the Ultima property. We&rs...

19 December 2011
13:01 GMT

Ultima Designer Believe Age of Home Consoles Is Over

Rumors are talking about new gaming platforms from Sony and Microsoft and we already know a lot about the new Nintendo Wii U but at least one industry legend believes that the age of the home console is over.Speaking to IndustryGamers Richard Garriot, who is best known for going into space and creating the Ultima ser...

1 December 2011
16:41 GMT

Valve Hires Former Thief and System Shock Designer Doug Church

Video game developer Valve has announced that it has hired Doug Church, a veteran game designer that has previously worked on such classics as Ultima, Thief and System Shock. After working at Origin Systems and at Looking Glass Technologies, Church moved to Eidos, where he worked until 2005, when the decided to be...

17 March 2011
15:51 GMT

Richard Garriott Wants to Make a New Game

The gaming industry has quite a lot of emblematic figures, with plenty of them having gained worldwide fame due to their hard work and to the innovations they brought to the whole entertainment industry. One of these figures is reputed game designer and producer Richard Garriott, more fondly known as Lord British, th...

7 January 2009
16:31 GMT

Lord British and the Soyuz Crew Land Perfectly

The Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft that brought the American space tourist and the 2 Russian cosmonauts back to Earth from the International Space Station (ISA) has had, in spite of the fears caused by its previous 2 similar transports, a near-perfect landing. It touched Earth soil last night at 11:37 pm EDT (or thi...

24 October 2008
11:16 GMT

Creator of the "Ultima" Video Game Series Flies into Space for $30 Million

The sixth space tourist ever is a magnate of the video game industry, a game designer and the creator of the successful "Ultima" series. He has spent a fortune for the privilege of sharing the cabin of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-13 with 2 other astronauts. His father, Owen Garriott, was a trained astronaut who ...

13 October 2008
07:25 GMT

Ultima Linux 8.2 Has Been Released

Developed by Martin Ultima, the Ultima Linux release is a Slackware based distribution which addresses both Intel and AMD architectures. Inheriting Slackware, which is known for being very openly customizable and suitable for learning the innards of Linux, Ultima Linux is a fast, secure, stable and easy-to use OS. Re...

10 July 2007
08:31 GMT


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