Tabula Rasa

By jreqthek9 PROJECT: TABULA RASA Tabula rasa : (Latin: blank slate) the theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that their knowledge comes from experience and perception. ----- First off, let me say that my bronchitis ...

By Seraphina Brennan We pitched the fast talking reviewer some questions to get his opinion on the MMO genre beyond his reviews of Tabula Rasa and EVE Online, and found out some interesting things -- like victorian steampunk spaceships are awesome. So what breaks the MMO genre for Yahtzee? Will more MMOs be sma...

By Jason Hughes Justice League" where lex luthor creates a robot that can mimic the powers of others, no matter how benign or complex. essentially, "tabula rasa" means "clean slate" from which one can start fresh and anew. class dismissed. ...

By bilingue Tabula Rasa, a project so large that suffered a complete re-design in the middle of development. At first it was a fantasy game, then it became a science fiction MMO with some great ideas but poor execution. How is Tabula Rasa doing? ...

By Eliot Lefebvre If you had to describe the MMO field in one word - without using the words "virtual" or "massive" or "Warcraft" - you could do worse than picking "fickle". It's all but a law of nature that for every game that manages to get big-time exposure, there's another whose very name provokes boredom a...

Unfortunately, the troubled history behind their previous MMO effort, Tabula Rasa, still lingers over NCsoft. Company CFO Jaeho Lee concedes Tabula Rasa wasn't their finest hour, and the joint project with Richard "Lord British" Garriot ...

By Lesley Smith The problem is, it's hard to tell whether a game will be hit and miss and if it ultimately goes the way of Tabula Rasa and The Matrix Online. At the same time, the really popular MMOs like WoW never seem to offer lifetime subs, as if they know they will be so popular that subscriptions will keep th...

By Shixi XIE Tabula Rasa changes, or should I say, “should be” changes. Last 2007-12-14 Feedback Friday, they mentioned about the coming changes to the attributes: Body points will now add a bonus to your armor rating; Mind points will now add a ...

 IL Tabula Rasa, though strip away the long-range weapons and sci-fi setting. Combat is all about running around, getting close to your enemy, swiping at them, running back and around to dodge, or letting loose a spell from a distance. Unlike most MMOs ...

By Krystalle Voecks This morning, GamePolitics added their .02 to the mix and upped the ante with the legal documents involved - and boy, are they illuminating. According to Richard's side of the story, it goes like this: Richard & co form Destination Games, and are bought out by NCsoft in exchange for some...

 New Zealand Despite relatively good reviews and early anticipation, the MMORPG failed to live up to its promise. Richard Garriott (aka Lord British aka Astronaut aka personification of weird) designed the game, but abandoned the team shortly after to pursue his ...

MMORPG & MMO GAMES; Exteel Review HotFrog (persbericht), Netherlands - Dec 5, 2008 best games the MMO genre has to offer - classics like the fantasy PvP goliath Lineage 2, the sci-fi shooter Tabula Rasa, and the anime-inspired Exteel. ...

By Soulskill NCSoft announced today that it will be closing down Tabula Rasa on February 28th. The sci-fi shooter-flavored MMO struggled for quite some time, despite recent attempts to draw in new players by announcements of new features, price reductions, and using Richard Garriott's trip into sp...

By Earnest Cavalli Image courtesy NCsoft Message from the Tabula Rasa Team[ Tabula RasaOfficial Site] See Also: Why Richard Garriott Can't Play Tabula Rasa in Space Video: Richard Garriott on Colbert Report Garriott Sends Coded Message From Space Richard Garriott Plans Flight Into Space

By Jonathan Fincher Richard Garriot's Tabula Rasa has fallen on hard times lately -- what with other high-profile MMOs like Age of Conan and Warhammer Online stealing away their thunder -- but I don't think we realized quite how far the game has been sinking. Many retailers, including Gamestop, have stopped...

By Relmstein(noreply@blogger.com) It's a smart decision and gives the team a time to polish a couple things. In particular I'm worried about how similar their gameplay design looks to Tabula Rasa. Both games use a sort of auto-targeting FPS combat style which heavily factors "cover" into damage taken. It's a style of combat th...

By Blue Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa Website announces the Deployment 12.5 update is now live for Tabula Rasa, NCsoft's science-fiction MMORPG. This page offers the extensive release notes for the new...

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By MIG-31 Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa Website announces the Deployment 12.5 update is now live for Tabula Rasa, NCsoft's science-fiction MMORPG. This page offers the extensive release notes for the new version. ______ Source: Bluesnews.

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By Taea NCsoft gifted the players of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa with an early patch to the Live servers, bringing Deployment 11 in to the game play. Already looking ahead, the tweaks to Deployment 12 and drawing to a close and should be ready for the Test Server soon. Several new items are previe...

By Ceasar S. You've all heard that Richard Garriott, creator of Richard Garriott's Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa by Richard Garriott, will be taking to the final frontier that is space when he takes off this October 12, 2008 for the International Space Station (ISS). But here's something you didn'...

By Shawn Schuster Filed under: Sci-fi, Events, in-game, Game mechanics, Patches, Tabula RasaAfter over three weeks on the test server, Tabula Rasa's Deployment 10 has now arrived on the live servers. With this content update, TR players get their fair share of goodies, and the general opinion so far is po...

By Taea Deployment 10 for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa is now Live! Biggest news of the day is the new massive, Rambo-esque shotguns now available starting at level 23. Second biggest news is that the Velon Hollow instance is in place, with a brand new armor set dropping. Tons of ability changes a...

By Enrico S. Fixed an error with the logos door in Howling Maw.Fixed an error where Holograms in the Temple of the Proud Patriarch despawn after killing a player that fails the mission.Fixed an error in the Temple of the Proud Patriarch where dying and failing still allows you to complete the missionCor...

By Shawn Schuster As we announced a few weeks ago, the folks at TabulaCast landed an exclusive interview with Tabula Rasa's lead designer, Tom Potter. They reached out to the community during these last few weeks, asking players to submit their own questions for Tom to answer on the show. Now, that episode ha...

By sente After being on vacation for about a week not looking at anything game-like and barely touching any computer, I found a couple of new things waiting to be explored: Age of Conan was released (for pre-order at least)Issue 12 for City of Heroes/Villains was releasedDeployment 8.x for Tabula...

By sente In the past 9 months there has been two MMOGs I have been playing regularly - City of Heroes/Villains and Tabula Rasa. The points I wanted to bring up here are applicable for other games also, but I have taken the two games I played much recently as the examples.

By Jay P. If you're an active player of NCsoft's Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, then you might find the Feedback Friday useful. After all, knowledge is power. Use the information we have to your advantage in the MMO. The latest leg of the weekly update covered various topics: the PTS level command an...

By Karl B. This patch includes quite a few interesting updates. There are fixes to respawns, aggro adjustments, and even a few changes to Spy and Ranger abilities. Pet-loving players will also welcome the new damage bonuses to their pets when they add points to their Mind attribute.

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By Ryan C. Heads up, Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa players! The latest patch notes for the game have already been released, and it's very brief. Teeny weeny it is, but it's still an important batch of update that you should know about. After all, you'd want to be up to speed on all things relating NCsof...

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By Ryan C. Heads up, Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa players! The latest patch notes for the game have already been released, and it's very brief. Teeny weeny it is, but it's still an important batch of update that you should know about. After all, you'd want to be up to speed on all things relating NCsof...

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By Taea A re-review of Tabula Rasa has been posted over at Eurogamer. It seems like they didn't like what they were seeing, especially the population drop. Read the Tabula Rasa re-review by clicking here. Agree or disagree? Let us know in the Tabula Rasa Community Forums.

By Cody Bye Of course, there will be those who decry the suggestion that TR is a dying game - and we wish we could count ourselves among them, we really do. We began our last article on TR by saying that there's a lot to love about the game, and we still firmly believe that in spite of a mis-managed launch and s...

By Suzie Ford This being a re-review, we're called upon to provide a score - a tricky proposition, since we really like Tabula Rasa as a game, but now find it extremely hard to recommend that anyone actually pick it up and play it. The improvements since launch certainly bump up the game somewhat, but the d...

By Ryan C. For those of us who regularly while away the hours hunting down the Bane in NCsoft's MMORPG, Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, here's a news bulletin direct from the team themselves: the 1.7 update is now up in the Play Test Server, so you might want to log in right now to make sure your client is...

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By Charles D. No worries, though. There were hints of the sniper getting some additional benefits from the upcoming ranger improvement soon, so don't shelf that Torqueshell Rifle just yet. Come back to this spot again next week for more updates to Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa.

By Chris Chester Ever since Tabula Rasa's now-infamous patch 1.5 went live, I've noticed a trend most curious. In the months since the game launched, the server populations did something of a quick spiraling crash. They started out at consistently high, and over the course of the month gradually fell to mos...

By Matt Warner I believe monetary policy entered NCsoft's equation to cut-off Blackstar. NCsoft currently isn't in a great position to keep pumping money into their numerous development projects given Tabula Rasa's enormous failure. The numbers from NCsoft's last quarterly annual report are ugly. T...

By Chris Chester I honestly can't tell you how we went a whole day without noticing, but Tabula Rasa's Patch 1.4 is currently active on the live servers. With it comes a wealth of new changes that we've been talking about over the last couple weeks. All players have had their attribute and skill points refunded...

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By Glen D. When the previous patch for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa arrived, a lot of people were glad to see that bugs were taken care of. The only hitch was that repair costs for equippable items skyrocketed, leaving players trying to raise funds gnashing their teeth.

By Enrico S. The patch notes for the Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa test servers have been released much to the delight of some members of the QJ.NET team. We're pretty sure that you want to find out all about the changes that NCsoft has been implementing. Here is the complete list of all the changes done on...

By Ethic “The MMO genre just got a serious dose of adrenaline thanks to Richard Garriott’s reinvention of online combat.” - Gamespy “Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa is fun to play, has stunning graphics and doesn’t take place in yet another tiresome fantasy fairyland.” - Gamedaily

By brackishwater I’ve been playing a lot of Tabula Rasa and I know I have already written a little review about the game but I just felt like it needed or deserved more. I’m not saying this is the epic game I have always been waiting for or that you should run out and grab it right now. I don’t do recommendations anym...

By Louis McLaughlin I've been in two minds over whether to give Fury a try, but this convinces me to steer clear for now. Tabula Rasa and Hellgate: London must be hoping for a kinder reviews than the one doled out to Fury. Auran can't have enjoyed this one. Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comm...

My review of Stargate Atlantis's "Tabula Rasa" episode under the cut, spoiler ridden. TABULA RASA A review And it’ll be all over the place, as I’m tired (long day – saw Paul McGillion at the NJ SG con and he’s such a sweetheart)

By Jerico G. JoyStiq managed to score an interview with NCsoft boss Richard Garriott and Executive Producer Brian Clayton. The talk revolved mostly around the MMORPG industry and their (NCSoft) plans to support the PlayStation 3 with MMO-type titles. Their latest project - Tabula Rasa - was also tou...

By Ryan A. 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.

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By Ian C. 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:

By Ceasar S. 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...

By Mike Fahey The world itself is made up of instance zones in which missions of earth-shattering import take place. Garriott assures us that these won't be simple kill the boss, get the item missions, but quests with epic storylines and ramifications. There are world zones as well, though these are spl...