Ultima Online news

YouTuber Majuular takes a deep-dive look at the Ultima Online series as a whole

Hey, you! Do you like MMORPG history? Do you need something that will occupy your time for the next several hours? Well, good news; YouTuber Majuular has just released his latest video in his retrospective compilation on the Ultima franchise, and this one is about Ultima Online.…

Drop everything and grab the popcorn: Majuular's 4.5-hour documentary on Ultima Online is here to devour your weekend

Stop readin' and start watchin'.

Ultima Online marks 29 years of operation with a livestream and New Legacy Season 2 details

To say that Ultima Online staying operational for 29 years is an achievement is… well, obvious. Most MMORPGs can only dream of such a long tail. So of course Broadsword is feeling both retrospective and celebratory in equal measure. “What was only supposed to last a few years has…

Industry vets behind Dishonored, Ultima Online, Her Story and more agree the games industry crisis goes beyond games: 'Ultimately, to fix what’s broken in the videogame industry, we might have to fix reality'

A new Edge report features multiple industry veterans sharing their thoughts on the state of the game industry, and what can be done about it.

Gabe Newell believed "one of the biggest mistakes game developers make" is treating "entertaining" players as hackers, and an essential piece of MMO lore from Ultima Online proved his point

Newell called the Lord British assassination "the coolest thing that had ever happened"

Industry vet who worked on Ultima Online says the next big thing needs to have 'sh*tty graphics' to escape the doom of rising development costs

"What used to be a single 128x128 texture is now multiple 4K textures."

Ultima Online New Legacy announces October 15 release date for Season 2

If you’ve been hankerin’ for more Ultima Online: New Legacy, aka the alternative ruleset server, you were probably eagerly waiting to learn when its Season 2 would start in the fall. Well, now we have a hard calendar date: Thursday, October 15th. Information on just what this nex…

Classic MMORPG Ultima Online just launched a brand-new festival event ahead of its 29th birthday

We’re just a few weeks away from Ultima Online’s 29th birthday, so naturally Broadsword’s Publish 124 – live now on all the production shards – sets the stage for the festivities with the first run of a brand-new game event called Shardfall. “Shardfall is a new seasonal event whe…

MMO Jukebox Song of the Week: ‘Zento’ from Ultima Online

This week’s MMO Jukebox pick is from Bree, who takes us way back to the past — and to another continent: “Justin got me missing Ultima Online’s Samurai Empire, so I went to look up the old music. This is the one that played every time you went to the capital city of Zento on