GDC gets Tabula Rasa showing

By Robert Purchese Published 1 March, 2007

Q3 release, says NCsoft.

NCsoft has confirmed to Eurogamer this morning that Richard Garriott will be taking people through a demo of Tabula Rasa at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week.

"Richard Garriott is doing a walkthrough of the game," a spokesperson for NCsoft told us this morning.

The title is in development at Garriott's Destination Games, which was recently bought by NCsoft, and is an online adventure that will try to blend the fast-paced action of first-person shooters with the traditional fantasy-values of MMOs.

While no firm release date has been put on Tabula Rasa yet, NCsoft today gave a rough idea on when you can expect to be playing Garriott's latest.

"We're setting it for the end of Q3," the spokesperson added.

Garriott's recently been spouting that Tabula Rasa has the potential to beat even the biggest online adventures currently on the market, believing his game will climb to at least a million copies after it's released later this year.

It's not clear whether the demo will be playable at GDC, but we'll be talking to Garriott there to see exactly how he's moved on from the Ultima Online days, and why Tabula Rasa will knock our socks off.

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Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • mkreku #1 5 years ago

    This will be interesting. So far I've not actually seen anything about Tabula Rasa that would convince me to take another dive into the MMORPG market. But it is Garriott after all..

  • ZuluHero #2 5 years ago

    well some people love mmo's and some people don't. if you fall into the latter then theres unlikely to be anything here that will change your mind.

    I fall into the former, and have been watching TR for what seems like ages, like an old vulture waiting for it to die. If its out in the autumn, it seems like it still has some life left in it :(

    can't wait though :)

  • SBfistfun #3 5 years ago

    Proving once and for all that RPG fans aren't beaded n00bs.

    Oh..

  • smelly #4 5 years ago

    Still a god awful name for a game... Despite me liking RG.

  • vanitees #5 5 years ago

    I am so curious about what Tabula Rasa is going to cost the Korean sugar daddies.

    Remember Auto Assault? They had to write off $14M as NCSoft NA for that stinker. Tabula Rasa has not been in production six years--but actually seven, since it was supposedly under devel when NCsoft bought their farm. Then they had to throw out the first baby and start over.

    2006 profits sank almost by half over 2005 at NCsoft.

    I've read that they're going to gather all their products together and charge a monthly rate to use all of them...like Sony does.

    I'm thinking this sick puppy will end up costing around $40M by release date. Kawow. Tabula Ishtar.