Richard Garriott and Starr Long’s studio working on Shroud of the Avatar.
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Happy 20th birthday, Ultima Online! Here’s how to get caught up on the OG MMORPG
Just about 20 years ago, my boyfriend and I were wandering through Media Play (heh) when he picked up this box for some new...
Shroud of the Avatar stuffs in more dragons, preps for Halloween
Shroud of the Avatar's Release 46 is right around the corner, and when it arrives, so do the dragons. For the patch, the team...
Shroud of the Avatar reveals a batch of investment rewards for the one percenters
People, steel yourself for an entire article about gold-themed housing decorations that won't involve a single Trump joke. It's going to be hard, but...
Choose My Adventure: Shroud of the Avatar in summation
All the time through playing Shroud of the Avatar, I found myself wanting to like the game a lot more than I did. And...
Perfect Ten: The 10 tiers of MMORPG lore
In which we discuss varying levels of MMO lore effort and Eliot admits he doesn't remember the names of Pac-Man's ghosties.
Shroud of the Avatar’s R46, free trial, community map, and $52K telethon haul
Shroud of the Avatar is full-speed ahead, looking on to R46 with R45 in the rear-view mirror. What's in R46? Lots of stuff, starting...
Choose My Adventure: Many kinds of lost in Shroud of the Avatar
One of the first things I did in Shroud of the Avatar was get kind of lost. The last week's activities were largely similar....
Shroud of the Avatar is running another free trial until September 27
Curious about Shroud of the Avatar but not curious enough to drop money on the title first? Now you can try it out and...
Shroud of the Avatar rolls out R45, in spite of losing a week of work due to a software bug
Shroud of the Avatar rolled out another release on Thursday, imbuing the game's 45th update with what it's calling a huge amount of work...
Shroud of the Avatar Update 45 polishes several areas, adds Discord integration
Like clockwork, the end of the month heralds another patch release for Shroud of the Avatar. "Polish" is the keyword for this update, as...
Choose My Adventure: The why behind Shroud of the Avatar
Finding the fun, I'm sorry to say, was a bit on the fleeting side.
The problem isn't that Shroud of the Avatar suddenly stopped having...
Shroud of the Avatar’s R45 launches Thursday, Oktoberfest-themed fundraiser begins next week
Shroud of the Avatar is gearing up for one of its like-clockwork monthly releases: 45 on Thursday. In preparation, this week's newsletter features a...
Choose My Adventure: Finding the fun in Shroud of the Avatar
One of the things that I believe is utterly vital to writing about games in general and MMOs in particular is finding the fun....
Shroud of the Avatar works on replacing placeholder scenes
With the broad outline of the game now completed, Shroud of the Avatar's team is turning to placeholder locations and revising them with hand-crafted...
Choose My Adventure: Finding my way in Shroud of the Avatar
Heading into Shroud of the Avatar for the first time was a bit of a strange experience for me, right from the start. Usually,...
Perfect Ten: MMOs obsessed with the floating islands trope
One of the fun things about this hobby is that certain tropes repeat themselves constantly. And they're usually weirdly specific tropes, too. Poop quests,...
Shroud of the Avatar is playable for free right now
If you haven't been aware of it, Shroud of the Avatar is currently running yet another extended trial for the remainder of the month. That...
Choose My Adventure: Starting completely fresh in Shroud of the Avatar
I really know pretty much nothing about Ultima.
This is only partly my fault. Way back when the Ultima games were a big deal on...
Shroud of the Avatar raised almost $700K from investors, $67.5K from donors last night
Shroud of the Avatar's equity crowdfunding campaign on SeedInvest has come to a close, with 518 investors having raised just shy of $700,000 in...
Shroud of the Avatar profiles new zones, hits $600K in SeedInvest round
Shroud of the Avatar's latest newsletter has plenty of business business business, but the highlights are always the developers' diaries on various locations and...
