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Wednesday, May 6
VirginWorlds.com - Exploring Massively Multiplayer Games
Kotaku has found an interesting court filing between litigants NCSoft and Tabula Rasa creator Richard Garriott. Garriott is suing his former bosses for 'fraud'. The suit was filed in Texas and you can grab the link after the jump. ...
Saturday, Jan 10
VirginWorlds.com - Exploring Massively Multiplayer Games
Unfortunately, it just never snagged the interest of my fellow MMO geeks, and is set to die a very sudden death in the next few weeks. A guy named Shane found these - unopened, brand new copies of Tabula Rasa - thrown into a [...] ...
Monday, Jan 5
Massively: Tabula Rasa burial ground, behind EB Games
Filed under: Sci-fi, Culture, MMO industry, Opinion, Tabula Rasa, Free-to-play Despite the title of this Kotaku post, I still refuse to call Tabula Rasa a bad game. Sure it's certainly not an encouraging sign to see dozens of sealed TR boxes filling a dumpster behind an EB Games in Canada,...
Van Hemlock: The Control of Points...
Back to rearranging the deck-chairs on the Titanic then, and more poking about what remains of Tabula Rasa. Right from the word go, one of the big features of the game was its Control Points. I've talked a bit about those back in April 2008, in my guise of free-faced newbie, and on paper, they se...
Friday, Dec 19
WarCry Network : Latest News: Tabula Rasa: PAUs Invade with Deployment 16
Soon-to-be closed MMO Tabula Rasa is getting some major toys in the next update, finally allowing players to own and operate one of the fabled PAU mechs! Take a look at the entire brigade after the jump.
Massively: Tabula Rasa's PAUs and Mechs coming in next patch
Filed under: Sci-fi, Screenshots, Events, in-game, Game mechanics, Patches, Previews, Tabula Rasa Just when we thought the Tabula Rasa news couldn't get any better with today's Deployment 15 reaching the live servers, we now get word that the highly-anticipated Personal Armor Unit...
Monday, Dec 15
WarCry Network : Latest News: Tabula Rasa: Weekend WrapUp
Closing sci-fi MMO Tabula Rasa is staying busy during its last days with competition events like the Friday Night Fights and Server Wars. Event briefs and winners were released and we have them here, after the click!
Massively: Honoring Tabula Rasa through screenshots
Filed under: Sci-fi, Screenshots, Culture, Events, in-game, Tabula Rasa Over the next 2 months, we here at Massively plan to honor Tabula Rasa through a series of articles. The news of the game's closing affects all MMO gamers, even if they never actually played Tabula Rasa itself. So in th...
Van Hemlock: The Duplication of Self...
Character Cloning System" Unlike EverQuest 2 however, (who pulled the whole tree thing anyway, retro-fitting it with more usual 'Choose at L1' stuff, a year or two in), Tabula Rasa also allows you to effectively take character saves, using the Cloning system.
Massively: Tabula Rasa's PlanetTR forums to change format
Filed under: Sci-fi, Culture, Events, in-game, Forums, Tabula Rasa With the news of Tabula Rasa's closing, one might wonder what will become of the game's largest and most popular unofficial forums. As was announced this past weekend, the PlanetTR forums will be changing formats after...
Sunday, Dec 14
Massively: EVE Evolved: Why EVE Online will be around for a long time.
Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Business models, Culture, Expansions, MMO industry, Patches, Professions, Opinion, Tabula Rasa, EVE Evolved A little under five years ago, a friend of mine introduced me to a new online game he was playing called EVE Online. A key part of his pitch was tha...
Thursday, Dec 11
VirginWorlds.com - Exploring Massively Multiplayer Games
Several times I've wanted to just sit myself down and write an in-depth article explaining the original crafting system in Tabula Rasa (before it was announced to close), but it's just one of those things where the explanation would not ...
Tuesday, Dec 9
Van Hemlock: The Upgrade of Weapons...
Then you needed skills to be able to do the crafting. These came from the same pool and points that you also needed for actual combat skills. Another bad move, effectively forcing everyone to make a Crafting Alt as soon as they hit the first Clone point, or face spending valuable survival skil...
The Common Sense Gamer: Scoring 2008 - MMO Slapdown!
4. Tabula Rasa 0 out of 10. 5. Vanguard 6. 5 New MMOs announced. KOTOR adds up to five…doesn’t it? 2 out of 10…..again, because I can. 7. Star Trek 5 out of 10. 8. Going under? 9. Brad McQuaid. …who? 0 out of 10. 10. Agency I’m I “sold” on micro transactions as a way to go for a North American MMO title? Not yet.
Sunday, Dec 7
Massively: The week in Massively Features
Filed under: At a glance, Massively meta The Digital Continuum: Moria or Wrath? tanding in the tiny store, I found myself at a crossroads. I'd put a lot of thought into this, but now that the decision was starting back at me, it seemed much more daunting. The question kept repeating in my head,...
: Who’s on First and Why?
I finally found a copy at Best Buy, but even there, they had a huge display set up for Lich King, but no display or massive shelf space for the EQ2 expansion, and it was just released as well. So, apparently the market has spoken. Even if your not a gamer, the public recognizes WoW as the winner of t...
MMOG Nation: Catching up with MMOG Nation
It’s been a long week and a half for me. My wife had surgery on the 26th (day before Thanksgiving, yay!), and it’s been a slow recovery process. We’ve had fits and starts, and a bunch of bumps along the way. Just keeping her happy, me sane, and Massively rolling during a week of seemingly non-stop...
Friday, Dec 5
Limited Edition: Limited Edition Podcast 8 / TabulaCast 32
Following the recent news announcing the closure Tabula Rasa we had to get the old TabulaCast team together In this Show John and Matt are joined by Shawn the founder of TabulaCast and Tia (Avatea) NCSoft Europe’s Community Co-ordinator for Tabula Rasa
A ding world: The transient peristent worlds
This illustrates quite well that the persistent worlds that many consider MMOs to be can also be viewed as a bit transient. While an offline game is available to a player as long as that person has it stored on some accessible media and the equipment to run it, the online games are effectively...
: The Fate of War
Even now Mythic is urging people to move characters to more populated servers so they can keep the RvR balance in check. They have yet to mention server closings, but that is only a matter of time. With Tabula Rasa already closing it’s doors and Age of Conan not fairing much better, I wonder how...
Heartless_ Gamer: Not A Good Time For Failing MMOs
Tabula Rasa is going the way of the dodo. Age of Conan may be following as well: Age of Conan Servers To Merge, Funcom Sees Layoffs.Two ominous signs have come recently for Age of Conan fans; developer Funcom went through a round of layoffs, and they announced plans to merge some of the game's s...
Wednesday, Dec 3
VirginWorlds MMO Podcast Collective: Shut Up. We're Talking #38
Guests: Darren Karen Michael Craig Adam Brent Topics: Join our Monday game group along with Karen to discuss: DDO static group postmortem Tabula Rasa postmortem
Joystiq: Massively week in Review
Filed under: Culture, Features, PC, MMO Joystiq's sister site Massively.com has all the news you'll need about MMOs. Here's the best, brightest, and most interesting stuff from the last week, all in one convenient place for your MMO minute. EA licenses Dungeon Keeper MMO, for China
Tuesday, Dec 2
Patch: WarCry Network : Latest News: Tabula Rasa: Deployment 15 on PTS
As Tabula Rasa counts its final days, the developers at NCsoft are still busy pushing the final Deployment 15 patch to PTS, which introduces the FPS camera mode (finally!) and takes players back to Earth! Complete patch notes, after the cut.
Van Hemlock: The Season of Termination...
I'm not quite sure why I've just gone and subbed up for what remains of Tabula Rasa. A number of reasons, I suppose. The game is effectively over; and will be gone for good at the end of February '09; leaving about three months of play left. After that, it won't be possible to play it at all.
Sunday, Nov 30
VirginWorlds.com - Exploring Massively Multiplayer Games
TABULA RASA: As predicted by many, gamebunny included, TABULA RASA has been canned. The news almost slipped by last week, creating more of a damp thump than an explosion on the MMO news front. NCsoft have stated that TR will close on ...
Tuesday, Sep 30
The Ancient Gaming Noob: September in Review
And I was responding to another blog meme, remembering Adventure, looking towards the future of PvP play, wondering if I was a member of the press, and talking about getting naked. yahtzee “city of heroes” I don't think we've gone there yet]
Wednesday, Sep 3
Patch: WarCry Network : Latest News: Tabula Rasa: Deployment 12 PTS Notes
NCsoft's Tabula Rasa team released their latest PTS patch notes for Deployment 12, listing new high-end instance maps, redesigned weapons and armor, in addition to numerous game feature fixes and tweaks. Check the full list after the ...
Monday, Jun 30
Patch: Massively: Age of Conan test server now open to public
For a game like Tabula Rasa, with its monthly deployments, there's at least some logic in this. There's an advantage getting acquainted with tweaks before they go live. For a game like Age of Conan, with its current bi-weekly patch ...
Friday, Jun 20
Massively: Crafting, what is it good for?
It's interesting that something as valuable to a rewarding MMO experience as crafting is so routinely put on the back-burner. Age of Conan and Tabula Rasa are both glaring examples of recent releases whose crafting systems are either ...
Thursday, Jun 19
Psychochild's Blog: Makin’ stuff in MMOs
Tabula Rasa has an interesting crafting system where recipes are temporary items found as monster drops. Each "blueprint" allows you to make the item(s) once, then it is destroyed. This was an interesting decision, although it was ...
Thursday, May 22
Patch: Massively: Redesigning the Magma Caverns in Tabula Rasa
Deployment 8, the most recent patch to Tabula Rasa, just rolled out to the live servers earlier this week. With that patch came a number of changes, including avatar tweaks, a number of combat balance changes, and a wholescale reshaping ...
Tuesday, May 6
Massively: Tabula Rasa: Wonders video is making a splash
Tabula Rasa is a gorgeous game, there's just no denying that. The sci-fi world can play host to some incredible imagery including technological, alien and even tribal visuals that surpass most other MMOs out there. ...
Tuesday, Apr 29
Patch: WarCry Network : Latest News: Tabula Rasa v1.7 Live
TR devs announced that the v1.7 patch is now live on Tabula Rasa servers. The have included a list of what they think the most interesting changes in this version are:. Respawns: Palisades, Incline, and Plains have had their spawns ...
