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Why Richard Garriott Can't Play Tabula Rasa in Space

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2008-07-30 09:22:00 by Earnest Cavalli in Wired: Game|Life
...Garriott is going to fly to the International Space Station, and he's taking you with him With Garriott on his flight will be the "Immortality Drive," a repurposed commercial storage drive containing the avatars of every player to ever set foot in Garriott's new MMO, Tabula Rasa . In an interview with Wired.com, the celebrated role-playing...
 
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Richard Garriott and the Harbingers of Failure

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2007-11-09 17:15:58 by Editor in VirginWorlds Blog
...Garriott: "As many kudos as I would like to give World of Warcraft, it's basically a remake of EverQuest, just incredibly polished and refined. There are harbingers of failure in that model. Everyone in these games is obsessed with the concept of how much damage-per-second they are inflicting and maximizing their DPS. When you do that, you...
 
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Garriott Sends Coded Message From Space

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2008-10-15 14:28:33 by Earnest Cavalli in Wired: Game|Life
...Garriott is currently orbiting high above the Earth, but that doesn't mean he's forgotten his fans down here on terra firma Garriott broadcast a video to gamers showing a message in the coded glyph language of Tabula Rasa . Fans on the PlanetTR forums decoded the message, revealing a quote from Soviet scientist Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky It...
 
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Richard Garriott; Mars Native

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2008-02-12 20:27:38 by Shawn Sines in Gaming Today
...Garriott has been interview many times since he began programing with Akalabeth for the Apple II. Most of the interviews cover much the same ground; so much so, there are ruts on this particular path. Gamasutra jumps off track asking fresh questions to get a different take on this game developing Texan. Check this in depth look at Richard...
 
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Tabula Rasa Friday Night Fight Featuring Garriott vs. Chavez

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2008-07-25 18:46:06 by Shawn Sines in Gaming Today
 
...Garriott is set to go head to head with boxing champ Jesus Chavez aka. El Matador. Fortunately for Garriott, the fight involves avatars and takes place in the C.E.L.L.A.R. (Coalition of Enlistees Likely Looking for Aggressive Retaliation) 3 arena online The opponents will battle hand-to-hand sans armor on the TR Test Server starting at 6pm...
 
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Video: Richard Garriott on Colbert Report

2008-09-19 11:20:59 by Earnest Cavalli in Wired: Game|Life
 
...Garriott's scheduled appearance on the Colbert Report last night. Today, Comedy Central released a clip to the teeming internet masses The segment features very little of Garriott -- less than a minute actually -- though it does provide a reasonably useful explanation of Operation Immortality (along with a warning against the dangers of alien...
 
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Garriott Leaves NCsoft to Pursue 'New Interests'

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2008-11-11 15:52:40 by Earnest Cavalli in Wired: Game|Life
...Garriott will be leaving NCsoft to pursue new interests sparked during his October spaceflight Many of you probably wonder what my plans are, now that I have achieved the lifelong dream of going to space," Garriott wrote in a message to Tabula Rasa's fanbase. "Well, that unforgettable experience has sparked some new interests that I would...
 
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Seiko Merchandising Garriott Spacewalk

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2008-04-08 12:44:34 by Earnest Cavalli in Wired: Game|Life
...Garriott can add another accolade to his résumé: living merchandising opportunity The watch, which will be available for purchase at the end of the year, celebrates Garriott's upcoming private trip into space. While there, Garriott plans to step outside of his shuttle and attempt a spacewalk, making him the "first private individual to do...
 
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Richard Garriott's appearance on The Colbert Report

2008-09-19 19:00:00 by Shawn Schuster in Massively
 
...Garriott made his Comedy Central debut last night with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report. This appearance by Garriott was in conjunction with his Operation Immortality project that will take place next month. Stephen Colbert will be joining many other popular celebrities by adding his digitized DNA to the Immortality Drive which will...
 
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Witness Richard Garriott launch into space on October 12

2008-10-03 09:00:00 by James Egan in Massively
 
...Garriott, is about to become the world's sixth private citizen to participate in a space mission aboard the International Space Station. The trip into space comes at no small cost through Space Adventures, and the whole experience of gearing up for the trip is documented on Garriott's dedicated site. The MMO tie-in is that Garriott's space...