Today BioWare Mythic announced Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar, a new product that is going to be part of the Ultima franchise.  Ultima Forever offers a completely new chance to explore the world of Brintannia with action RPG gameplay and enthralling storytelling. It will be available on both PC and iPad, to let you choose across platforms where to play, either solo or with friends. For more information and the opportunity to sign up for beta, visit www.ultimaforever.com. The Ultima franchise is a fantastic legacy and has always been very important to us. Ultima Online celebrates the 15th anniversary […]

We are staging the publish to all shards now. European shards will receive the patch today during their normal maintenance cycle.  Here are the publish notes for your reading pleasure: Publish 77.0.0 City Loyalty In addition to assisting to quell the still ongoing unrest throughout Britannia three new ways to gain City Loyalty have been added: Participating in Champ Spawns will award City Loyalty to the City you have chosen to declare citizenship to.  The more difficult the level of the champ spawn, the more love you will receive. Turning in BoDs in a Loyalty City will award love to […]

The authorities want you to know: If you placed your boat near the place Blackthorn’s old castle was standing, please remove it before tomorrow, Wednesday July 11th, at midnight EDT. If your boat isn’t removed, it might get buried and destroyed in some landscaping works that are about to happen in that area.

It seems the slimes in Britain Sewers are running out of algae to eat! Many of the slimes have been spotted in the swamps south of Destard, near the savages. We must keep these creatures under control!

Written by the EM Team     The grass beneath his tread was soft, and covered in the morning dew from a sun that was rising in the east. Each step was taken without any specific destination, and there was no greater purpose in these steps beyond wandering; the land was unfamiliar and strange, and there were no clear landmarks to guide the way, and no signs of any sort…so he wandered. His robe dragged along the ground, fraying its edges as he went…but he paid it no heed. Finally at the end of his energy for the moment, he dropped […]

We will perform an extended maintenance during the regular downtime of each shard tonight. This will prolong the regular maintenance by about two hours.   Thank you for your support.

Greetings, We will push Publish 75.0 to all shards during the next maintenance cycle, in the early morning of March 27. Here are the complete notes for your reading pleasure, enjoy and see you in the game! Publish 75.0.0   Global Arc Acts 3 and 4 for the awakening have been completed.  Please keep an eye on your Town Criers for upcoming news.  Continue on with this quest and you too can have your own heirlooms.  As always watch the herald for future fiction. Clean up Britannia – 4 new dyes Glossy Fuchsia Deep Blue Vibrant Seagreen Murky Amber Faction […]

Greetings, We will publish a new client this afternoon for an art update for the Global Arc. Please make sure to patch.

Update 1:15 pm EDT: Both shards are available again. The shards Drachenfels and Europe in our European datacenter are currently unavailable. Our teams are investigating the situation and will bring both shards back online as soon as possible.

Update 2:30pm EDT: Oceania is back online. We are investigating the lag issues. We have been informed by our service provider that there are issues to connect to shard Oceania. The situation is under investigation. Keep an eye on the Herald for updates.