What does one do after inventing one of the first virtual worlds ever to exist online? If you’re Richard Garriott, you try to leave Earth behind altogether, for a little while anyway. Lots of gamers know about Garriott’s quest to escape the bounds of Earth’s gravity via private space travel. What some may not know is the reason the man known as Lord British wants to do it so badly. More »
Richard Garriott, space tourist, rat tail enthusiast and creator of Ultima and Tabula Rasa (RIP), may also be the first private citizen to have a legitimate claim to ownership of a good portion of the moon. More »
The whale that apparently killed a trainer today in front of a horrified SeaWorld audience was also connected to the death in 1999 of a drifter so obsessed with Ultima Online that he once wandered into Richard Garriott’s home. More »