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Lord British Returns To Ultima Online

Posted by simoniker on from the return-of-the-king dept.

Thanks to Origin for their news release announcing Lord British is returning to the world of PC MMORPG Ultima Online. The article trails: "Talk circulates throughout the land of the return of a figure from Britannia's past, whose whereabouts have been shrouded in mystery for these many moons", and GameShark has contacted NCSoft Austin, where Ultima creator Richard 'Lord British' Garriott now works (and where he has even introduced Lord British's character into Lineage), and reports that "Richard Garriott... gave [Origin/EA] permission to reintroduce the character into the world of Ultima. Origin apparently made a deal with Richard that allowed them to use the character if they had Richard's blessings."

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  1. I thought... by Polo · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought he was dead. ;)

  2. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Then again, now that Garriott no longer has any rights to the Ultima line, which Lord British was always associated with, maybe he's just letting go of the past and moving on to entirely new ventures.

    Maybe it's a sign that the therapy is working and he's beginning to realize that this is no way for a grown man to behave.