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If you're a longtime Ultima Online player, you surely know the name Tim "Draconi" Cotten, even if only from seeing his name on holiday...

Last week in The Game Archaeologist, we traced the history of Ultima Online’s origin, development, and testing -- not to mention one pesky in-game...

At 20 years old, Ultima Online is finally doing what its EA-backed handlers at Broadsword once said it would never do: It's going free-to-play. Game...

If you didn't already know that Ultima Online is planning to go free-to-play, you probably still wouldn't be able to tell without reading between...

The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Massively OP's Justin Olivetti has a provocative article on his personal gaming blog, Bio Break, this week on MMORPG housing. "I once again wonder why...

Just about 20 years ago, my boyfriend and I were wandering through Media Play (heh) when he picked up this box for some new...

In preparing tomorrow's birthday piece for Ultima Online, I confidently wrote that Ultima Online was not going free-to-play because that's what the devs always...

Ultima Online's Time of Legends expansion is on the way, just in time for the venerable MMO's 18th birthday in September. And if you're...

Today we're hanging out with Broadsword Online Games, the indie studio that emerged from the implosion of Mythic Entertainment a while back. Broadsword is...

Broadsword has today announced that it is working on a new expansion for the classic Ultima Online sandbox. Time of Legends, the devs say in a new...