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Richard Garriott Shows His Automata To Martha Stewart
11:20AM Michael McWhertor | 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. More »
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Watch Lord British Officiate Zero-G Wedding
10:40AM AJ Glasser | 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. More »
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3:00PM Luke Plunkett | 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. More »
Richard Garriott Suing NCsoft For $24,000,000
3:00PM Luke Plunkett | 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. More »
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Video of Tabula Rasa’s Final Moments
2:00AM Owen Good | 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. More »
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Tabula Rasa: Humanity Dies Tomorrow
3:40AM Mike Fahey | 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. More »
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Giant Robots Help Kill Tabula Rasa
12:20AM Mike Fahey | 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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Garriott Will Get Back To Gaming One Day
6:20AM Mike Fahey | 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. More »
Looking at ‘The MMO Crash of 2008′
7:00AM Owen Good | 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. More »
Where Bad Games Go To Die (RIP Tabula Rasa)
6:30PM Luke Plunkett | Upon their death, great men are afforded a sending off befitting of their stature. Pity Tabular Rasa, then, as EB Games in Canada seems more content to roll its lifeless corpse into the nearest ditch. More »