Jim Clash writes about extreme adventure and classic rock. Few people will ever get to do what explorer Richard Garriott has done. After building a successful gaming company, Origin Systems ...

Richard Garriott, the creator of Ultima, the space man. He's not everyone's cup of tea, especially when he says things like "most game designers just suck" (even if there was a reasonable point ...

Richard Garriott’s Akalabeth, which he programmed in high school, is one of the first computer role-playing games ever published. Garriott went on to create the Ultima series, considered by many ...

Early in his autobiography, Richard Garriott characterizes himself as a storyteller, a lover of yarns. After reading his new book, stuffed with tales of derring-do, I interview him via Skype.

But what about a sequel to a classic? The father of Ultima, Richard Garriott, still wants to make a follow-up to what was arguably the first MMO, Ultima Online, but so far hasn't had much luck.

We may earn a commission from links on this page. What's the story behind gaming legend Richard Garriott's $24 million lawsuit against massively-multiplayer online game developer NCsoft?

In this chapter, a controversial scene in Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar pits Richard "Lord British" Garriott and his family members against each other as they argue over whether to keep the scene ...

The last we heard from video game designer Richard Garriott, he was in outer space. Taking time off from game design, he dished out $30 million to take a private space flight to the International ...

Richard Garriott is one of the most famous game designers on the planet and he has been inducted into just about every gamer Hall of Fame. Now he wants to be famous off-planet. At a personal cost ...

Richard Garriott: What's interesting about Limiting Factor is that it's going to more than twice the depth than I'd ever been previously and, as it turns out, that is mightily more difficult.

It's hard not to be jealous of Richard Garriott. His father, Owen, was a NASA astronaut who spent 70 days in space. He (Richard) developed the Ultima computer game series, among others ...