It’s time for the Week in Review - past Week in Reviews can be found here. Just as last week was focused on Halloween and the 9th Anniversary Collection, the developers are focused on these two topics as well (obviously the UO: 9th Anniversary Collection taking precedence). Among the big events, Jeremy Dalberg taking over Wilki’s position (Wilki is now a UO Designer), as well as the 9th Anniversary Collection actually shipping and becoming available in stores.

General Game News:
Oct 31 (Tu): Client Patch 5.0.6b - A Note on Ladders
Oct 31 (Tu): Worldwide Publish Schedule - Oct 31/Nov 1
Nov 1 (We): New Community Team Members, Wilki Becomes a Designer
Nov 2 (Th): Character Transfers to be Re-enabled
Nov 3 (Fr): Five on Friday (November 3, 2006)

In-Game Fiction/Events:
Oct 31 (Tu): Reminder: The Dead Shall Rise

UO: 9th Anniversary Collection:
Oct 31 (Tu): Quick Reminder: UO: 9th Anniversary Collection is Shipping
Nov 1 (We): Issues with with UO 9th Anniversary Ladders
Nov 2 (Th): UO: 9th Anniversary Entitlement Issues

We now present our seventh Week-in-Review (past Week-in-Reviews can be found here). Basically, a weekly summary of everything we have reported upon. This past week has mostly seen stories revolving around the UO: 9th Anniversary Collection and the Halloween-oriented events occuring as we speak.

General Game News:
Oct 26 (Th): Character Transfer Disabled
Oct 26 (Th): Origin to Receive Publish 43 Update
Oct 26 (Th): Worldwide Publish Schedule - Publish 43
Oct 26 (Th): Client Patch 5.0.5c
Oct 27 (Fr): Reminder - 100,000,000 Prize Gold Event on Lake Superior
Oct 27 (Fr): New Runes up on UO.com - Oct 27, 2006
Oct 27 (Fr): Client Patch 5.0.6a
Oct 27 (Fr): Five-on-Friday (Oct 27, 2006)
Oct 27 (Fr): Crystal and Shadow Houses Now Open on Origin
Oct 28 (Sa): Character Transfer delayed through Monday, Oct 30, 2006
Oct 30 (Mo): Publish 43 Update (Oct 30, 2006)

In-Game Fiction:
Oct 27 (Fr): And the Dead Shall Rise (Halloween, Shard of the Dead News)

Miscellaneous News:
Oct 30 (Mo): Ultima Online Collectibles are Back!

It’s that time again for the UO Week-in-Review, the sixth time we’ve done this in a row. As always, you can access the previous WiR’s here. For the most part, much of the past week has been focused on either Publish 43 or the 9th Anniversary Collection, which makes sense - we are only about a week away from the 9th Anniversary release (and Pub 43 does support the 9th Anniversary Collection).

General Game News:
Oct 18 (We): Client Patch 5.0.5b
Oct 18 (We): Origin Receives Publish 43
Oct 18 (We): Publish 43 - Official Information
Oct 19 (Th): Napa Valley to be Published
Oct 20 (Fr): Five on Friday for October 20, 2006
Oct 23 (Mo): Atlantic and Origin to Receive Publish 43/Update

In-Game Fiction:
Oct 18 (We): Imperial Proclamation
Oct 20 (Fr): Britannia Rejoices
Oct 20 (Fr): New Runes on UO.com

Ultima Online: 9th Anniversary Collection:
Oct 18 (We): Australia and 9th Anniversary Collection
Oct 18 (We): Amazon.UO taking pre-orders for 9th Anniversary Collection

Once again, it’s time for the Week in Review, from Tuesday, October 10, 2006 through Monday, October 16. If you want to see previous weeks, visit this link. Highlights of the past week include more Kingdom Reborn information (including new screenshots), as well as a return of Sherry the Mouse, a figure familiar to Ultima fans.

General Game News:
Oct 12 (Th): Origin receives publish
Oct 12 (Th): From the pen of Darkscribe
Oct 12 (Th): Halloween Shard coming up
Oct 12 (Th): Client Patch 5.0.5a
Oct 12 (Th): All shards to be published (Oct 13)
Oct 13 (Fr): Five on Friday - October 13, 2006
Oct 13 (Fr): Publish 43: Character Transfer Delay
Oct 14 (Sa): Sherry the Mouse and Megacliloc issues
Oct 16 (Mo): Publish 43: Lots of Notes, Additions, Test Center
Oct 16 (Mo): All Shards to be published (Oct 16/17, 2006)

In-Game Fiction:
Oct 12 (Th): Live Events about to “Get More Serious”
Oct 12 (Th):Design Team is Growing! Leurocian is Back!!
Oct 13 (Fr): Special Event today
Oct 13 (Fr): Castle British under siege
Oct 13 (Fr): Sherry the Mouse makes an appearance at Castle British
Oct 13 (Fr): New Runes on UO.com - October 13, 2006
Oct 14 (Sa): A Heroine’s Welcome Home

Other UO Sites, Utilities
Oct 16 (Mo): House Builder Updated

UO Developers:
Oct 12 (Th):Design Team is Growing! Leurocian is Back!!

Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn
Oct 12 (Th): New Kingdom Reborn Screenshots
Oct 12 (Th): Kingdom Reborn FAQ

Ultima Online: 9th Anniversary Collection:
Oct 11 (Wd): Amazon, etc., information about 9th Anniversary Collection
Oct 11 (Wd): 9th Anniversary Collection and International Ordering

If you’d like to see the three previous “Week in Reviews”, you can find them (and all future “Week in Reviews”) here.

It’s been a fairly quiet week, partly due to the planned anniversary event with a special visitor being delayed until this coming friday (October 13), but just as importantly, the 9th Anniversary Collection will be shipping in just around three weeks. If you plan on buying the 9th Anniversary Collection (and who isn’t?), one thing in the past week that might interest you is all of the items available in the Collection are now on display at a castle on Origin, near Castle British.

General Game News:
Oct 5 (Thu) : Test Shards Now Being Monitored for Inappropriate Behavior
Oct 6 (Fri) : Account Age Issues (Oct 6, 2006)
Oct 6 (Fri) : Five on Friday (October 6, 2006)

Other Ultima Online Sites:
Oct 6 (Fri) : Ultima Online Bibliothek - Change of Address

In-Game Fiction:
Oct 5 (Thu) : Special Event For October 6th Delayed, Treasures of Tokuno II to Continue
Oct 5 (Thu) : Treasures of Tokuno II Updated - Publish for Origin
Oct 6 (Fri) : Pacific to Receive Treasures of Tokuno II Update Publish (Oct 6)
Oct 6 (Fri) : All Shards Receiving Publish (Oct 7, 2006)
Oct 6 (Fri) : Imperial Notice (Treasures of Tokuno II Update)

UO Developers:
Oct 4 (Wed): Lead Game Master (GM) Spada Introduces Himself

Ultima Online: 9th Anniversary Collection:
Oct 4 (Wed): International Buyers of UO: 9th Anniversary Collection
Oct 6 (Fri) : Heritage Collection Castle Now Open (Origin)
Oct 6 (Fri) : Draconi and Silvani Answer Questions About Ladder and Curtains (9th Anniversary)
Oct 6 (Fri) : UO: 9th Anniversary Collection FAQ

UOCodex.com Updates:
Oct 5 (Thu) : Quick Note: Site Theme Update, Cache (Both Site and Browser)

This past week was very, very, busy and very big for the UO community. The Ultima Online: 9th Anniversary Collection details were released, among other things.

Ultima Online: 9th Anniversary Collection
- Thu (Sep 28) - Official UO: 9th Anniversary Collection Information - The people cheer, the people complain. But hey, ladders to Keep/Castle rooftops.
- Thu (Sep 28) - UO: 9th Anniversary House Tile Sets - pictures
- Thu (Sep 28) - UO: 9th Anniversary Collection Early Buy Program
- Fri (Sep 28) - UO: 9th Anniversary Collection - Top 5 at Amazon - Top 5 in video game sales (competing against consoles and hardware!)
- Mon (Oct 2) - UO: 9th Anniversary Collection and Mondain’s Legacy - Yes, Mondain’s Legacy is included.

In-Game Fiction:
- Thu (Sep 28) - Origin Gets Another Publish - Will Ricardo get a fairl trial?
- Thu (Sep 28) - Treasures of Tokuno started back up? - Looks like the Treasures have returned, with a few small differences.
- Fri (Sep 28) - “New” Treasures of Tokuno Dyes - Dyes are just slightly different….just slightly.
- Fri (Sep 28) - Imperial Decree: Treasures of Tokuno II - Official information about the new Treasures of Tokuno.

Game Updates:
- Tue (Sep 26) - Wilki talked about duped items (colored shrouds included)
- Tue (Sep 26) - The EA Store leaked some information about the UO: 9th Anniversary Collection (confirming what Amazon Japan had mentioned on the 15th of September).
- Wed (Sep 27) - Debate settled about UO’s Birthday/Launch - Looks like it’s September 24, 1997
- Wed (Sep 27) - Brief look back at Ultima Online - using memories and experiences gathered for previous anniversaries
- Thu (Sep 28) - Account Age Issue Update - Account age doesn’t seem right? Read on
- Thu (Sep 28) - All shards get the publish - Everybody gets access to the Treasures of Tokuno

Developers:
- Fri (Sep 29) - A proud legacy, a bright future - Comments from Darkscribe about UO’s past and future (and news of an event on October 6)
- Fri (Sep 29) - Five on Friday - September 29, 2006 - Treasures of Tokuno talk, 9th Anniversary on Test Center, etc.

Miscellaneous:

Site News:
- Sun (Oct 1) - Added UO running under Linux or Mac OS X page.
- Other miscellaneous stuff done.

Last week’s Week in Review - September 19 - 25

Since last week’s Week in Review (Sep 11 - 18) was well received, we are going to continue this series, and we are going to keep the same format - brief, one-line descriptions of each major news story from the previous week. One small change will be, it will cover from tuesdays through mondays, with each previous week’s summary being posted monday night or tuesday morning.

In-Game Fiction:
- Friday (Sep 22) - Elven Prosecutor Assigned to Ricardo’s Trial!
- Friday (Sep 22) - New Runes on UO.com
- Friday (Sep 22) - InuWiki moves to InuWiki.com

Game Updates:
- Wednesday (Sep 20) - Ultima Online 9th Anniversary doing fairly well at Amazon in pre-orders, despite few details having leaked out.
- Wednesday (Sep 20) - Wilki answered 50 questions
- Thursday (Sep 21) - Client Patch 5.0.4e (Login/Splash screens updated)
- Friday (Sep 22) - Five on Friday for September 22 - 9th Anniversary, Kingdom Reborn, Vamp Form, Talon Bites, Blackrock

Miscellaneous:
- Thursday (Sep 21) - Sosarian Tales is alive once more
- Friday (Sep 22) - PayByCash Custumors - Billing changes
- Monday (Sep 25) - Sosarian Voices Returns, Plus Show #30

Site News:
- Wednesday (Sep 20) - Searchable/Organized “Five on Friday” Finished

This is going to be a weekly feature, where we take a quick look at major events that happened in the past week.

In-Game Fiction:
Tuesday (Sep 12) - Tips/Information on Fighting the Void Shadow
Friday (Sep 15) - Timelord Makes an Appearance. Armageddon Cast. Dogs and Cats living together.
— Related Stratics Thread
— Information in UOCodex Forums
Friday (Sep 15) - Wanted! Ricardo, Alive and for Questioning
Friday (Sep 15) - New Runes on UO.com
Saturday (Sep 16) - Ricardo’s Cave Entered

Game Updates:
Wednesday (Sep 13) - Client Update - Version 5.0.4d - New content added, vet reward updates, 9th Anniversary Collection client splash screens.
Thursday (Sep 14) - Amazon (US) has 9th Anniversary box art up
Friday (Sep 15) - Worldwide Publish - Vet rewards, New Content
Friday (Sep 15) - Developer’s Five on Friday
Friday (Sep 15) - UO 9th Anniversary Collection - available for pre-order in Japan.
Saturday (Sep 16) - Character Transfer Service restored
Saturday (Sep 16) - Wilki Clarifies Pre-Patch Talon Bit Minor Artifacts

Miscellaneous:
Tuesday (Sep 12) - House Builder 13e Released

Site News:
List of Developers by Game finished. Now we just have to create entries for each developer, showing what games they worked on. Stormwind has been working on UO since 1996, with a two year break from 1998 - 2000. Yep, that’s right. A dev that was around at the beginning.