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Ultima Creator Says His ‘Game Designers Suck’ Comment Was Taken Out Of Context

Yesterday, game makers and fans were all up in arms over comments made by Richard Garriott to PC Gamer, where he said among other things, that “most game designers really just suck”. Now the man best known for his ground-breaking work on the Ultima games has issued a clarification.


Ultima Creator Richard Garriott Says ‘Most Game Designers Really Just Suck’

The man who revolutionised computer role-playing games with the Ultima doesn’t think much of the talent currently working in the medium when it comes to game design. Who’s good at it? He is. Maybe a few others.


Ultima Creator Richard Garriott Just Sued A Cool $28 Million Out Of NCSoft

Why is this man smiling? Because a Texas jury just awarded him $US28 million in a suit filed against NCsoft, the publisher of his now defunct massively multiplayer online game Tabula Rasa.


Ultima Creator May Already Own Some Of The Moon

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.


Richard Garriott Shows His Automata To Martha Stewart

For the handful of you who may have missed the late October episode of The Martha Stewart Show with Richard “Lord British” Garriott, that show has finally been uploaded for all to enjoy.


Watch Lord British Officiate Zero-G Wedding

Earlier this month, we heard that Richard Garriot — son of an astronaut and granddaddy of science fiction/fantasy games like the Ultima series — would officiate a wedding in zero gravity.


Richard Garriott Suing NCsoft For $24,000,000

Late last year, Ultima creator Richard Garriott split from NCsoft, the developers and publishers behind his latest game, Tabula Rasa. Sounds like the split wasn’t exactly amicable.


Video of Tabula Rasa’s Final Moments

Last night NCSoft shut off Tabula Rasa’s servers. Early word had it that the Bane horde would either wipe out humanity, or humanity would do the job itself with a doomsday weapon.


Tabula Rasa: Humanity Dies Tomorrow

The forces of humanity make a final stand tomorrow night, as Richard Garriot’s Tabula Rasa celebrates its final day with an all-out alien invasion.


Giant Robots Help Kill Tabula Rasa

NCsoft’s doomed massively-multiplayer online science fiction game Tabula Rasa may only have weeks to live, but the developers are making those weeks count, with giant player-controlled mechs storming the title’s final moments.


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