With Chris Roberts heading back to his roots with Star Citizen, Richard Garriott, Lord British, is doing the same and has started his own Kickstarter campaign for a new game Shroud of the Avatar.
Kickstarter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/portalarium/shroud-of-the-avatar-forsaken-virtues-0Website:
https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/They've already raised $812k of the $1mil they're hoping for with 25 days to go.
I never actually played any of the Ultima games but this certainly looks interesting.