Please join us in witnessing the Coronation of Lord Blackthorn the New King of Britannia, on your resident shard.  This re-enactment is for all the citizens that were not able to join us for the live party in Va. Baja 10-10 @ 10pm EST Catskills Not Announced Yet Chesapeake10-10 @ 8:30pm EST Lake Superior Not announced yet Legends Not announced yet Napa Valley 10/09 @ 7pm PST Pacific 10/11 @ 7pm PST Siege 10/14 @ 3pm EDT Sonoma 10-8 @ 9pm EST Drachenfels 10-10 @ 2pm EST Oceania 10-14 @ 6am EST Please check with your town crier for additional information […]

The Oceania shard’s contestants remind us that though some moments are full of strife, it’s the people with which we share the challenge that make the moment special. We had three entries from the Oceania shard so all of them are winners! Most Memorable Moment in UO In all my time of playing UO, there have been quite a few memorable moments, But to be honest nothing really captures the very first time I logged in (On my very first account – way back in 1998) It was Chespeake, the shard I first played on; because Oceania didn’t exist yet. […]

It is time to announce the next set of winners in the Memorable Moments Contest. Players on the Formosa shard mixed it up with entries containing poetry, epic battles and a holiday event. We hope you enjoy their tales as much as we have! We received four entries from the Formosa shard and, once again, all entries are winners! It was the year 2006, almost a year had passed by and business had picked up that year since the relocation of the Chocolit Shoppe in Formosa. With the year at end and the joyous atmosphere in the air, I had […]

We are patching out a new client this afternooon for an art  and cliloc updates. A new publish version will arrive with the next regular maintenance to update in-game links to the new website. See you in the game!

Another former producer of Ultima Online took the chance to share his memorable moments. Starr Long who was our special guest at the 15th anniversary party used the speech after the coronation of Lord Blackthorn to answer several questions including some of his fondest memories. Here are some more: My fondest recollections are always about the unexpected ways our incredible players were able to create their own experiences. Each one of them illustrated how we had moved from makers of this world to the caretakers. The players were as much the makers as we were now, if not more. One […]

In the past few weeks your entries have tickled our funny bones, tugged at our heart strings and stirred up many enjoyable memories. In some shards the competition was fierce and forced many of us to diligently scour through many entries. Other shards the choice was much simpler. In either case, we would like to thank all of players for their amazing memories and announce our winning picks for your memorable UO moments. The first moments we would like to publish are the ones from the Balhae Shard. We received only four entries, so all of the entries are winners! […]

It is Monday again. Although the Dev team already answered a ton of questions during the Anniversary Party on Saturday (a recording of this will be eleased later this week), they took the time to address these questions gathered on the different fan sites, too. Slayer properties on instruments: Was wondering if we could ever get a way to craft slayer musical instruments. Either thru runic saws or possibly new recipes for carpenters to make? (Xalan Dementia) Could maybe someday imbuing move to instruments? (JamesC ) I’d like to be able to imbue GM instruments with slayer properties using the […]

Written by the EM Team     Looking out over the water from his balcony, Lord Blackthorn steepled his fingers in front of his face. It had been a long time since he’d seen these waters and had the chance to enjoy the gentle movements caused by the current, and he savored it. Heckles had certainly done a good job of having the place repaired, and even had it furnished the way that he himself likely would have. Looking to the left, he glanced at the travel chess set he’d carried with him all this time, and once again his thoughts […]

The time for celebration is close and preparations are under way. We are excited to see all of you and have many surprises in store! If you are unable to make it, don’t worry we haven’t forgot about you either! We are going to stream the event with our special surprise guest as well as the Q&A with developers. The stream will take place from 1:30pm – 4:00pm EDT on our Ustream channel at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bioherald. So be sure and tune in to watch the story unfold! That’s not all though: UO Stratics is going to be hosting an all day […]

Another Memorable Moment comes from Anthony Castoro, Producer for Ultima Online from 2022 to 2005. “So, I thought a lot about different stories I could tell about UO, the people, the players, the game itself.  I’ve decided to stick with this one story. The first time I worked on UO, I became co-lead designer with Todd “MadToad” Bailey. We encountered a problem on several of the servers where the forests had become completely barren. For some reason, not enough creatures and monsters were spawning, but we couldn’t figure out an obvious cause. We tweaked the spawner settings on the live […]