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Richard Garriott calls for MMO devs to innovate
Speaking at the Develop Conference, game designer Richard "Lord British" Garriott (Ultima series) called for innovation in the field of MMO games. "Game design has not changed over 10 years. Fundamentally the gameplay is unchanged," he said, refer...
Today's most labyrinthine video: Lord British's house
Fans of real physical spaces inspired by video game logic might enjoy this ten-minute feature on Richard "Lord British" Garriott's home. He calls it "Brittania Manor" (appropriately enough), and the house has enough trap doors and hidden rooms to e...
Tabula Rasa ends six-year wait with Oct. 19 release
Tabula Rasa is more than just the best episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it's also the new Richard Garriott MMORPG product being published by NCSoft, which revealed last night that the game will finally arrive on Oct. 19, after being announce...
Richard Garriott asserts claim over lunar land
Call him Lord Lunar. Not content with his sovereignty over the nonexistent kingdom of Britannia, game designer and space traveler Richard Garriott is now claiming dominion over a small area of the moon. At a 1993 auction, Garriott purchased the right...
How not to rob Richard 'Lord British' Garriott
Richard "Lord British" Garriott could not have designed a more perfect ending to this little chapter in his game called life. Recently Garriott, who is currently working on Tabula Rasa, was the victim of a burglary. Some youths broke into Garriott's ...
Richard Garriott is back on Terra Firma
Praise the Eloh! Richard Garriott/Lord British, creator of Tabula Rasa and the Ultima series has returned to Earth after his 12-day-long journey into space. You sensed it when he reentered the atmosphere didn't you? Yeah, we did too. In addition ...
Richard Garriott wins $28 million in NCsoft suit
Spacefaring game designer Richard Garriott has been awarded $28 million in his lawsuit against former employer NCsoft. The Austin American-Statesman reports that Garriott was seeking $47 million -- a much higher figure than earlier reports -- to cov...
Richard Garriott wins lawsuit against NCsoft (again)
Last July, spacefaring game developer Richard Garriott won $28 million in a court case against former employer (and Tabula Rasa publisher) NCSoft, claiming that he was forced to sell his stock in the company at a low point in the market following ...
'Richard Garriott: Man on a Mission' premiering at SXSW Film Festival
Richard Garriott spent years as the ruler of a fictional kingdom before he became a second-generation astronaut. Sounds like the kind of guy you'd want to make a movie about! That's exactly what filmmaker Mike Woolf and his production company, Beef &...
Joystiq interviews NCSoft's Brian Clayton and Richard Garriott
Whilst at the Develop Conference last month we, unfortunately, managed to miss our meeting with NCSoft's Richard Garriott. Thankfully we have still been able to get our questions answered via email. The majority of the following are responses by Bria...
Interview: Richard Garriott's space epiphany, NCsoft departure and Portalarium
It's a sad day, my friends. With Richard Garriott starting Portalarium, we may retire the spaceman Garriott photoshop (above). With Garriott back on terra firma and with a new company, it's probably time to bury the image that represents the last co...
Richard Garriott to leave NCsoft
Boy, a guy takes one flight to space and suddenly he's too good for all of us earth-bound jerks. Tabula Rasa creator and semi-professional spaceman Richard Garriott recently revealed that his flight to the cosmos awakened some new interests in him, ...
Garriott hits NCsoft with $27 million lawsuit
Tabula Rasa's absentee landlord (well, before it burned to the ground), Richard Garriott, is suing NCsoft for $27 million, according to a Texas court filing. GamePolitics has the documents detailing how Garriott was laid off from NCsoft while he wa...
Ultima's "Lord British", Richard Garriott speaks
It's the sad thing with gaming. There are legendary names that a lot of people know. You mention Sid Meier or Will Wright, and the majority of gamers will know who you mean. On the other side, though, if you mention Richard Garriott, unless they're ...
Richard Garriott's Portalarium secures $7 million funding for iOS social RPG
Richard "Lord British" Garriott is in the middle of a new gaming venture called Portalarium (it's working on a social game for Facebook and iOS called Ultimate Collection: Garage Sale), and he's just been able to convince a round of venture capitali...
