News

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.


March 23, 2010
News

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.


November 3, 2009
In Real Life

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.


June 23, 2009
In Real Life

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.


May 6, 2009
News

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.


March 2, 2009
News

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.


February 28, 2009
News

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.


February 12, 2009
News

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.


January 16, 2009
News

Garriott Will Get Back To Gaming One Day

Sure his head is up in the clouds at the moment, but Ultima creator Richard Garriott hasn’t forgotten where he’s from. In an interview with GameDaily, Garriott discusses an eventual return to gaming.


January 12, 2009
Uncategorized

Looking at ‘The MMO Crash of 2008′

Hellforge posits that 2008 was the worst year on record for MMOs. But the “collapse” had nothing to do with the genre’s viability, and everything to do with hubris and poor decisions by game-makers.