Saturday, May 16
Tabula Rasa seems to creep into most people's minds when thinking of Earthrise. What sets you apart from other MMO games and, more importantly, what measures are you taking to avoid running into the pitfalls of other MMOs and ensure that Earthrise will ...
Thursday, Nov 20
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Monday, Apr 28
Fans of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa will be greeted by some good news when they log on today. The latest version of the sci-fi MMO, version 1.7, is now out and available for downloading. This patch includes quite a few interesting ...
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Qj.net, Tabula Rasa, Tabula Rasa News at Ten Ton Hammer, virginworlds.com
Friday, Apr 11
Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa: issues with today's patch - Incremental update to Tabula Rasa build 1.6 heading to test server ... MMORPG blog Tabula Rasa: Tabula Cast Ep. 18 now out MMORPG blog Seiko Merchandising Garriott Spacewalk Wired Blogs
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Qj.net, Tabula Rasa, Gaming Today, GameValor
Tuesday, Feb 26
Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa MMORPG - Image 1 It was revealed that there are a few problems with Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa patch 1.5. Perhaps the biggest one that has been found so far is a bug which causes certain video cards to ...
This article also contains excerpts from
Tabula Rasa, Gaming Today, GameValor
Friday, Jan 25
Tabula Rasa - Patch 1.4 Q and A, future updates - Jan 25, 2008 In this week's Feedback Friday for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, NCsoft has announced that the game will be employing another approach to releasing new ...
Tuesday, Jul 31
The history of the Bane, the species that seeks the enslavement of the galaxies that know of the LOGOS and can harness its power, may give the key to the Bane's weakness. The Bane was born from a faction of the Eloh, the species that gave the LOGOS to the universe. One race who was given the gift, t...
Friday, Jul 27
NCSoft's Richard Garriott spoke at the Develop Conference today and he pointed out that Tabula Rasa is going to be the first MMO video game to truly offer something different. Garriott then said that his game would be different with regards to how we perceive online games. He explained that...
Thursday, Jul 26
In this interview, we are shown in-game footage of NCSoft's Tabula Rasa as Richard Garriot talks about the steps the game has taken to further the MMO genre. He also talks about his transition from his roots on fantasy on making Ultima Online, to the war epic Tabula Rasa. You also get to see a ch...
Wednesday, Jul 25
Game design has not changed over 10 years. Fundamentally the gameplay is unchanged" says Tabula Rasa executive producer Richard Garriot. Nothing new, he says, since the release of Ultima Online in 1997. Heavy words for a veteran in the MMORPG industry.
Monday, Jul 9
PvP in Tabula Rasa will go two ways: War Games and Clan Wars. In War Games, individual players or squads can challenge each other until one side wins or surrenders. Players will have to fight in the battlefield though, meaning an alien can easily join in the fun and win a wargame it didn't join i...
Saturday, Jul 7
April Burba: Besides fighting we have a crafting system, the hunt for Logos (collection), taverns (social RnR), and a Clan system (Guilds). These are just the first steps in these areas and I expect more social systems to show up in some of our major content releases. // The worlds themselve...
Thankfully, there are groups dedicated to uncovering the secrets hidden in the indecipherable runes, and we're here to present you with the latest translated symbol - courtesy of the BSP Research Group at Le Sanctuaire. Here it is, the release/give symbol of Tabula Rasa.
Saturday, Jun 30
Just like the Egyptian Hieroglyphics, the Logos in NCsoft's Tabula Rasa has been quite the code to decipher, prompting many an armchair linguist and codebreaker to burn the midnight oil in an effort to find out just what the archaic symbols mean. Well, here's good news - two of the many symb...
Thursday, Jun 21
Raw enlightenment coming your way with this week's screenshot of NCsoft's Tabula Rasa. This time, it's about how receptive human characters in the game are to gain knowledge of the Logos, and it's done by a beam of Logo-flavored light shining into your character's eyes. Certainly beats pi...
Wednesday, Jun 20
Lastly, cloning in Tabula Rasa is yet to be finalized. Burba said that players can delete every single clone they don't want and create a new one. However, this feature will be limited by the number of character slots to be assigned to players - which is yet to be decided as well.
This article also contains excerpts from
Tabula Rasa, Gaming Today, GameValor
Saturday, Jun 16
Here's another video of NCsoft's Tabula Rasa in action and so far it's the sweetest bit of gameplay we've ever seen for the highly anticipated MMO. This time, we see some fast and furious close-quarters combat inside an enemy compound, as well as one of the scripted events that's bound to bl...
Wednesday, Jun 13
While talk about NCsoft's Tabula Rasa is unavoidable, since that game is Garriott's next baby, we'll give you all the revealed Tabula Rasa contributions to the MMO genre later. For now here's how Garriott sees the MMO genre the way it is now:
Tuesday, Jun 12
Shooters and MMORPGs - combining them is the big thing nowadays. Sounds like peanut and cheese, but who would complain if they look good, anyway? Of course, gameplay is important too, and we've heard much from this title to believe it will be an enjoyable experience. Here are some new screen...
Monday, Jun 11
Now we know we've gotten excited about dynamic battlefields and a persistent world that keeps changing, even while players are offline, Richard Garriott continued to expound on the gameplay facets of Tabula Rasa and how it can be a fleeting experience from today's ordinary MMORPGs in a...
Friday, Jun 8
Forget it's a sci-fi action, MMORPG. Forget that that it's being completed by the masters behind EverQuest. Forget that Richard Garriott himself blesses this game with his talents. NCSoft's Tabula Rasa is a living, breathing, dynamic battlefield and it slaps you, the player, in the midst...
Thursday, Jun 7
Other differences in TR include the different structure of instances and missions. For instances, Garriott said that they plan to use that as more of a storytelling tool. Players will supposedly be able to influence instances in a dramatic way (rescue NPCs, change the environment, etc). A...
Tuesday, Jun 5
The trailers just keep on coming. Here's another trailer video of NCSoft's Tabula Rasa. The one we posted yesterday gave us a look at the game's weapons. This new video is called "Planets". It's still full of action footage, but it also gives us a glimpse of the worlds players can explore in Tabu...
Saturday, Jun 2
Well we've just brought to you the Screenshot of the Week, so there won't be anything new just yet for NCSoft's Tabula Rasa. But we do have news for you on its featured preview article in the upcoming July 2007 issue of the magazine PC Gamer.
Wednesday, May 23
Just so you know what we're talking about, the Logos is this iconographic, universally-understandable language used in Tabula Rasa, peppering the game world with a sense of history and background. Remember that weird language in Ultima? Logos is something like that.
Monday, May 7
NCSoft is sponsoring this contest wherein all you have to do is design your very own Bane. Make sure that the depiction of your ultimate killing machine perfectly fits the profile of Tabula Rasa's vile scavengers responsible for creating abominations in their dark labs.
Wednesday, May 2
NCSoft has announced that closed beta testing is starting for the Richard Garriott-developed MMORPG Tabula Rasa. The said MMO reaching the closed beta phase is one of the final steps it has to go through before it's officially released in Europe and the US.
Wednesday, Apr 25
Two new Logos have been deciphered this week to help you further crack NCSoft's Benefactor Project message for Tabula Rasa. And as the current Da Vinci Code crackdown continues, we stress yet again that not all Logos found in the Benefactor Project message would be revealed. You'd have to c...
Tuesday, Apr 17
French gaming news site Jeux Online has broken the code for two more Tabula Rasa Logos. The first one is for the symbol for the word "Logos" itself, and the second is for the possessive form of the word "Others". You can check 'em out below.
Friday, Apr 13
Applicants of the Beta test phase for NCSoft's next MMORPG have received an e-mail message through the newsletter subscription channel straight from Richard Garriott himself, stating that the game will be entering a Closed Beta (selective beta-testing) period "within the next seve...
Thursday, Apr 12
Still trying to hack at NCSoft's Benefactor Project contest with all its Tabula Rasa Logos decoding? Two more Logos symbols have been unveiled to help you further crack the message. Both symbols relate to and fall under the sub-category of "Mind, Emotion & Senses" in the current TR Lo...
Thursday, Mar 22
Okay, just a quick update to all the translating work being done over those Tabula Rasa Logos. The one with the grouped houses translates to "Civilization/Community." Obvious enough as a Logos symbol: they're houses. Can't get any easier than that (Guess that makes a single house symbol "h...
Tuesday, Mar 20
Two new Logos symbols have been deciphered for all you Tabula Rasa cuneiform cultists out there. Check 'em out above. You'll now be able to add these to your continuously growing library of deciphered Logos in order to translate some mysterious content NCSoft dishes out.
Thursday, Mar 15
Guardian Unlimited solicited Richard Garriott's criticisms of MMORPGs, and while the Tabula Rasa creator did say he's a big fan of MMOs, he also felt they were lacking something. By the very design of the gameplay, MMOs didn't give what contemporary single-player games give: that unaba...
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