Breaking News: Ultima X Odyssey Officially Announced

Strategic combat is another key differentiator for UXO that engages players in a fast-paced, real-time exchange of attacks and easy-to-use special moves. Players can choose their level of aggressiveness and a variety of combat styles, making the outcome of the battle as dependent on players' actions as on their characters' strength. In addition to individual combat, player guilds can challenge other guilds to gladiator-style dueling in privately created zones.

Ultima X: Odyssey takes the genre to the next level through its innovative new Odyssey Adventure System ensuring that players experience a greater sense of adventure and reward from both questing and combat.

UOX Announcements Across the Headlines

A variety of places have posted announcements or first impressions of the new Ultima game. Here's a few of them.

• Adrenaline Vault
• GameSpot
• GameSpy
• Gaming Age
• UOX Official Site

We've Got Wing Commander 4 Funny Money

On further examination of my old Privateer 2 materials, I discovered this nifty $10 rebate for Wing Commander 4. It's a check-style instant rebate that you don't really see too much anymore for regular stores. Free movie passes tend to look like this these days. It's funny because Tolwyn's head is on it.

Congratulations on your purchase of Privateer 2! We hope you enjoy the new worlds of The Darkening! If you like this game, ORIGIN would like to encourage you to buy a copy of wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom, the fourth chapter in an epic series of space combat games. Wing Commander IV chronicles the struggles of Colonel Christopher Blair as he battles to save the Confederation. Classic space combat is your milieu as you control Blair's actions both in space and aboard his massive space carrier, the Lexington.

Memories From DragonCon, 6 Days To Go

The picture below is pretty much how I'll look later today when I manage to grab a few minutes of sleep here and there. As I write this Hades is somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. He'll be getting into Seattle this evening to begin our international Wing Commander blitz. This scene was taken in the Marriott lobby during some good old MechWarrior robot gaming.

Byydo: I was gonna say something about Fat Albert's clubhouse here, but I'd probably get murdered.
Weasel: Chris has issues with consciousness.
TyeDyeBoy: Given his freakish nap cycling, I bet there are many doctors that would love to put him through some kind of sleep study.
Monee: Chris has now gone into screen saver mode again.
ChrisReid: I can't believe I slept through a guy searching the floor with a pocket flashlight.
Joe: LOAF's late night stints at the all-you-can-eat cabbage bar can be devastating!
Mmmm.. cabbage bar.