On the first day of the year, NASA’s New Horizon Spacecraft captured an icy world 4 billion miles away. Here’s what the photos tell us about the fringes of our solar system. https://media.wired.com/photos/5c2e82fa59e96b0db4565b5d/master/pass/nh-sc-pluto-illustration.jpg
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Ultima Thule: NASA probe will reach tiny world at edge of solar system on New Year’s Day
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is set to go where no probe has ever gone before this New Year’s Day, when it beams back data from a tiny world that sits more than six billion kilometers away at the edge of the solar system. The mysterious object the craft will be exploring is officially known as […]
EA hated Ultima Online until it didn’t
Ultima Online was a landmark game for the industry, setting a standard for persistent, online worlds and paving the way for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game genre when it launched in 1997 for PC. But at one time, its publisher didn’t want to have anything to do with it. Member’s from Ultima Online’s original […]
Break Out: Ultima III and the familial origins of Origin Systems
GUEST: The following excerpt comes from Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution by David L. Craddock, available in hardcover from Schiffer Publishing. The book chronicles the making of over a dozen groundbreaking PC games, featuring interviews with their developers and details how they went on to influence the games of […]