Tabula Rasa

News

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

12:45PM July 30, 2010 | Michael McWhertor

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. More »


News

Ultima Creator May Already Own Some Of The Moon

6:40AM March 23, 2010 | Michael McWhertor

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 »


In Real Life

Richard Garriott Shows His Automata To Martha Stewart

11:20AM November 3, 2009 | 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 »


In Real Life

Watch Lord British Officiate Zero-G Wedding

10:40AM June 23, 2009 | 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 »


News

Richard Garriott Suing NCsoft For $24,000,000

3:00PM May 6, 2009 | 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 »


News

Video of Tabula Rasa’s Final Moments

2:00AM March 2, 2009 | 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 »


News

Tabula Rasa: Humanity Dies Tomorrow

3:40AM February 28, 2009 | 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 »


News

Giant Robots Help Kill Tabula Rasa

12:20AM February 12, 2009 | 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.


News

Garriott Will Get Back To Gaming One Day

6:20AM January 16, 2009 | 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 »


Uncategorized

Looking at ‘The MMO Crash of 2008′

7:00AM January 12, 2009 | 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 »