Akalabeth World of Doom - A classic Lord British RPG is being ported over to the ZX Spectrum

Before I begin i'd just like to say, that sometimes if it wasn't for our members, we'd miss out on some rather interesting game releases, and so, thanks to Roman Sandaevsky, he's just given us the heads up for ' Akalabeth World of Doom ', a game which is being ported over to the ZX Spectrum. Now to raise your eyebrows even more so this isn't just any game, but according to a number of sources, Akalabeth: World of Doom was originally a game for the Apple II released in 1979, and designed by none other than Richard Garriott aka Lord British.

Akalabeth World of Doom +4 - Lord British blessed C64 RPG port gets a Genesis Project update!

Remember when Indie Retro News gave a big mention to Andrea Schincaglia and team's C64 port of the Apple II RPG classic ' Akalabeth World of Doom '? Well guess what! It's appeared again but this time as Akalabeth - World of Doom +4 by Genesis Project! That's right ladies and gentlemen, the C64 port which was blessed by Richard Garriott aka Lord British himself as the predecessor to the Ultima series of games, has appeared on CSDB with more than just a few tweaks to the original.

Akalabeth World of Doom - Lord British gives this C64 RPG port his blessing!

Before I begin i'd just like to say, that sometimes if it wasn't for our members, we'd miss out on some rather interesting game releases, and so, thanks to Marco, he's just given us the heads up for ' Akalabeth World of Doom ', which has been ported over to the C64 by Andrea Schincaglia and team. Now to raise your eyebrows even more so this isn't just any game, but according to a number of sources, Akalabeth: World of Doom was originally a game for the Apple II released in 1980, and designed by none other than Richard Garriott aka Lord British. Furthermore not only has he given this port his blessing, but the game was the predecessor to the Ultima series of games that started Garriott's career!

Ultima 7 (Exult) - Modern recreation gets an Amiga AGA release!

In 1992, Origin Systems and designed by Richard Garriott released one of the best RPG's ever created, a game that even today can be enjoyed by many by downloading it from GOG. It just had to be ' Ultima VII: The Black Gate ', the seventh instalment of the Ultima series of role-playing video games, with the designer even saying  "was the most masterfully executed of the Ultima series. his own favorite instalment overall ". It was so popular by the gamers that a fan based developer created ' Exult ' which is a project to recreate Ultima 7 for modern operating systems, using the game's original plot, data, and graphics files.  Well that same engine has now been made available for the Amiga by NovaCoder with the recent release of the Amiga AGA port of Exult!

Shroud of the Avatar: forsaken Virtues, Kickstarter.

Hello everyone today we have something very special to tell you about. The creator of the ultima series Richard Garriot is going back to his RPG roots and is creating a new RPG called Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues. Richard Garriott is best known as the designer and creator of the ultima series. He hopes to make a triumphal return with Shroud of the Avatar: forsaken Virtues.