Added: Alternate Ultima 9 Credits
Okay, it’s not actually that the credits themselves are different. What has changed is the music playing overtop of them. Sergorn Dragon, despite his well-known love for Ultima 9, isn’t the world’s...
View ArticleNew Gallery: Ultima Online 2 Recordings
Courtesy of Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum, and thanks to the hard work of both him and the team at the Wing Commander CIC, Ultima Aiera is pleased to present two recordings of…well, I’m honestly not...
View ArticleUltima Online 2 Creature & Character Models
BanditLOAF from the Wing Commander CIC just brought to my attention the online portfolio of Art Wong, a digital artist in the employ of Electronic Arts. He seems to do a lot of 3D asset modeling and...
View ArticleNew Gallery: Ultima Online 2 Screenshots
[singlepic id=789 w=550 h=307 float=center]Below Logos Courtesy of Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum, and thanks to the hard work of both him and the team at the Wing Commander CIC, Ultima Aiera is...
View ArticleNew video: an Ultima Online demo reel…from 2004!
Ultima Aiera is pleased to present this demo reel — which was apparently only ever released internally at Electronic Arts and whatever studio was doing the development (Mythic Entertainment?) — from a...
View ArticleMassively's Game Archaeologist Looks At UO2 and UXO
In a pair of articles at the MMORPG news site, Massively’s Game Archaeologist looks at two Origin Systems MMORPGs that never saw the light of day: Ultima Worlds Online: Origin (or Ultima Online 2, if...
View ArticleRichard Garriott: "…Theoretically [My Ultimate RPG Becoming Like UO2] Would...
Ultima creator, private (and second-generation) astronaut, and interview-giving-machine Richard Garriott was interviewed again by Eurogamer. This time, discussion focused on Garriott’s “Ultimate RPG”...
View ArticleAbout Ultima Online
Ultima Online (UO) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG, or simply MMO) which launched on September 24, 1997. It was developed by Origin Systems as a spin-off — and was meant, in...
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Was Jeff Skalski Testing The Waters For Ultima Online 2?
Those who are familiar with the history of the Ultima series, and in particular the history of Ultima Online, may remeber the ill-fated Ultima Online 2…or Ultima Worlds Online: Origin, as it was also...
View ArticleUltima Forever: Big Feature in Chip PowerPlay
Courtesy of Dominus (from the Exult team), the Ultima Codex is pleased to present scans of select pages from the various Ultima-related features in this month’s issue of Chip PowerPlay. We knew these...
View ArticleFrom Pix: Ultima Online 2 Developer’s T-Shirt
Origin historian Pix has posted a handful of photographs of what is purportedly a t-shirt made for — or perhaps by — the Ultima Online 2 development team: Ultima Online 2 never made it through to...
View ArticleThe UO Next Style Guide
To celebrate the 9th anniversary of this website and its predecessor, Ultima Aiera, we’ve added a new collection to the Origin Gallery: scans of a style guide produced for the production team of UO...
View ArticleThe Ultima Online 2 Technical Design Document
To celebrate the 9th anniversary of this website and its predecessor, Ultima Aiera, we’ve added a new collection to the Origin Gallery: scans of a lengthy technical design document produced for what...
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The planned map for Ultima Online 2 would have included a continent called New Britannia, which would have comprised the remnants of Britannia after an attempted re-unification of the shards of the Gem...
View ArticleSpam Spam Spam Humbug: Episode 6 – The Manuals Were Beautiful
The sixth episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is now live, and is also available for download here. In this session, the SSSH team discusses the attention and detail that were put into the manuals and...
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Check Out This Piece of Isometric Ultima Concept Art from Denis Loubet
Former Origin Systems concept artist Denis Loubet released a piece of old concept art from his archives recently, which he claims is related to an Ultima game: This is a previously unseen concept...
View ArticleSpam Spam Spam Humbug 95 – Alternate Histories of Ultima
Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Podbean | Subscribe on Android Co-Producers This episode of Spam Spam Spam Humbug is brought...
View ArticleSpam Spam Spam Humbug 101 – Shroud of the Avatar Is About to Launch
Subscribe on Anchor | Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) If you can believe it, this episode was...
View ArticleSpam Spam Spam Humbug 146 – Outward Aurora Dreams
Subscribe on Anchor | Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Google Play | Subscribe on Spotify | Subscribe on TuneIn | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on Android Podcast Topic(s) This episode actually...
View ArticleRestored: “Ultima Online 2” Pitch Video/Demo Reel (2004)
In the ongoing — yes, it’s still ongoing — migration of content over from Ultima Aiera — one of the more intriguing bits of content that hadn’t yet been moved over to a proper home at the Codex was...
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