Happy Friday Everyone,    Since we will be out of the office for Columbus Day on Monday we are publishing TC1 today.  We hope you enjoy our little tricks and treats we have for you this year.  Enjoy!   Halloween – Treasures of Doom Visit the Research Camp located outside of the Dungeon Doom in Malas to learn about an archaeological investigation. Slaying monsters inside Dungeon Doom gives a chance for an Artifact of Doom to drop in the players backpack. The more monsters a player kills, as well as a player’s luck influence the chance at getting and Artifact […]

Left to right:  Jim “Onifrk” Crawley, Bonnie “Mesanna” Armstrong, Stephen “Bleak”  Brown, Jeff Skalski, Greg “Kyronix” Havlusch, Michael  “Misk” Armstrong

With the holidays quickly approaching we wanted to let everyone know that the team will be out of the office until January 2nd. Not to worry though; our elves will continue address any issues that may come up over the holidays. Best wishes to all and we hope the New Year finds everyone healthy and happy.   From our family to yours: Tim “Dropixel” Chappell,  Mike “Phoenix” Moore,  Jeff “Gryphon” Skalski,  Greg “Kyronix” Havlusch, Stephen “Bleak” Brown,  Michael “Misk” Armstrong,  Jonathan “Truji” Berkel,  Jim “Onifrk” Crawley (Represented by the green puppet),  Beth “Inarea” Garwood,  Bonnie “Mesanna” Armstrong and her new […]

Today marks the 15 year anniversary of Stratics! They have been a great asset and support to many players as well as the Ultima Online team. We are truly proud of their accomplishments and hope you will join us in giving them a heartfelt congratulations. In recognition of their 15th anniversary, many Stratics staff members share their insights and memories in one of the oldest MMO fansite networks. In addition, they will host a 2-hour live hangout on YouTube today, 10-21 from 2pm to 4pm EST. You can hang out with the staff and even have the opportunity to win some […]

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 […]

Happy Birthday Ultima Online!! I wanted to drop you guys a note on this extremely memorable day. Can you believe its 15 years already? I have been reading all your stories, which are great I have to say. Some have made me grin, some I have shared with people not on our team and some I just shook my head thinking yep I know what they are talking about.  *grins* So with that said I want to share a few of my memorable moments that stand out to me, I hope some of you can relate. Back in September 1997 […]

The UO Team would like to invite you to join us to celebrate our 15th year Anniversary! We will be having this here in VA at 4035 Ridge Top Road in September on the 29th. If you are interested in joining us please email barmstrong@ea.com. Please reply as soon as possible so we can get a head count since we will have limited space. We look forward to seeing everyone and will supply more details later.

  Here ye here ye…the great race is back! Following a string of impressive victories over some of the best treasure hunters in the realm, the Gold Diggers of Legends Shard received a well deserved rest as other shards prepared their teams. They are prepared, and the Diggers’ rest is over. A Challenge has been issued by the shard of Europa: Dear Legends, Europa has been busy. For weeks we have grown a team of Treasure Hunters that are now ready to challenge you, Legends, and your team to a race of seven dangerous chests. The Elven League of Virtues […]

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!