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MMORPG + FPS = a breath of fresh air in a genre that badly needed it!

Genre: Role Playing
Release date: Nov 2, 2007
Published by: NCSoft
Developed by: Destination Games

Designer: Richard Garriott
Min system requirements: 2.5 GHz Pentium 4, 512MB RAM, ATI Radeon 9600/NVIDIA GeForce FX5700 w/128MB of VRAM, broadband
Recommended system: 3.5 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent, 2GB RAM, ATI Radeon x1800 or NVIDIA GeForce 7800 series video card
Multiplayer Modes:

Online

MMO player MMO

1000s player MMO

8 GREAT
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Latest Stories

Massively Exclusive: Tabula Rasa's AFS War College

Massively writes: Last week we got a chance to visit NCsoft's Austin offices to attend the first...

PC News from N4G - Jun 21, 2008

Eurogamer: Tabula Rasa is not in trouble, says...

Eurogamer writes: NCsoft has told Eurogamer that Tabula Rasa has a growing player base and is not in...

PC News from N4G - Jun 11, 2008

Tabula Rasa Offers Free Re-Enlistment Week

Tabula Rasa has only been up and running for six months, but they've already lost a sizeable enough...

PC News from N4G - Apr 30, 2008

Tabula Rasa: Skitterin Hybrids Announced

Play TR announced a new playable class, the Skitterin Hybrids.

PC News from N4G - Apr 2, 2008

Game Downloads from FileRadar

Tabula Rasa v1.2.2.0 Client

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Features

Interview with Tabula Rasa Producer

Richard Garriott, the ex-Lord British speaks

Jul 9, 2007

Tabula Rasa interview

Destination Games co-founder Starr Long briefs us on the sci-fi MMORPG

Jun 4, 2007

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News

Massively Exclusive: Tabula Rasa's AFS War College

Massively writes: Last week we got a chance to visit NCsoft's Austin offices to attend the first...

News from N4G Jun 21, 2008

Eurogamer: Tabula Rasa is not in trouble, says...

Eurogamer writes: NCsoft has told Eurogamer that Tabula Rasa has a growing player base and is not in...

News from N4G Jun 11, 2008

Tabula Rasa Offers Free Re-Enlistment Week

Tabula Rasa has only been up and running for six months, but they've already lost a sizeable enough...

News from N4G Apr 30, 2008

Tabula Rasa: Skitterin Hybrids Announced

Play TR announced a new playable class, the Skitterin Hybrids.

News from N4G Apr 2, 2008

Dev Corner: Tabula Rasa - State of the Game

Starr Long, the Producer of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, updates us on the state of the game, as...

News from N4G Mar 6, 2008

NCsoft ties up Russian distribution deal

NCsoft has inked deals with three Russian firms to distribute its MMO products in the region. Noviy...

News from N4G Feb 27, 2008

NCsoft Criticizes "Inflammatory" TR Report

NCsoft has shot down multiple claims made about its sci-fi MMO Tabula Rasa in a sloppy and...

News from N4G Feb 19, 2008

Tabula Rasa: financial disaster

NCSoft CFO calls it, Austin arm downsized, Garriott to become a space tourist. NCSoft's chief...

News from N4G Feb 19, 2008

MMO Charts version 22.0

Bruce Woodcock's MMOGChart.com has updated with his latest tracking of MMO subscriptions....

News from N4G Feb 15, 2008

ActionTrip's 2007 Game of the Year

ActionTrip's 2007 Game of the Year voting poll registered 10673 participants. 1809 registered users...

News from N4G Dec 25, 2007

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Review

Wiping the MMO slate clean

Nov 12, 2007

Nov 12, 2007 History lesson time: "Tabula rasa" is a Latin phrase popularized by John Locke in the 17th century. Translated to English it reads as "clean slate" and describes Locke's notion of human nature. In terms of Richard Garriott's new MMORPG, intellectually titled Tabula Rasa, the concept works on several levels. In the game's story, it refers to humanity starting over on a new planet after an alien invasion. For gameplay it hints at the cloning system that allows you to take a single ...

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Previews

Tabula Rasa - closed beta impressions

We cut through the hype to bring you the good and bad of Richard Garriott's latest project

Aug 3, 2007

Latin for "clean slate," tabula rasa refers to the philosophical school of thought that we're not born with any prior knowledge programmed into us. Its the idea that we begin life with a fresh start, and NCsoft's next big title, Tabula Rasa, has been hyped as a game that will mark the next step forward in the evolution of the MMORPG genre. A unique combat system, a skill system based on the alien Logos language invented for the game, improved AI behavior, and a futuristic sci-fi setting all ... » Read Full Tabula Rasa preview

Tabula Rasa - closed beta news

We unveil the mysterious tier 4 classes and Logos skills in Richard Garriott's latest project

Aug 1, 2007

Theres been a lot of hype about Richard Garriotts upcoming MMO, Tabula Rasa. Its out-of-this-world sci-fi setting - which stands in contrast to the ocean of high fantasy WoW clones on the market - and its untraditional combat scheme - that introduces a mix between first-person shooters and traditional MMO gameplay - piqued our interest when we first scouted out the title. Each new player will start out as a recruit with basic firearms skills and access to Tabula Rasas mysterious Logos powers. ... » Read Full Tabula Rasa preview

Tabula Rasa - hands-on

Filling in the blanks

Jun 18, 2007

So the Earth was destroyed - space invaders, inevitably, going by the name of the Bane. What chance did humanity have? We can barely get into orbit. The Bane crosses galaxies just to burn worlds. A few of us managed to escape through the uncovered technology of the Banes estranged brother-alien race, the Eloh. We found other races willing to resist the Bane and bound together into a force that called itself the Allied Free Sentients. And a lucky few - including you - discovered they were ... » Read Full Tabula Rasa preview

Tabula Rasa

An MMO that starts with a clean slate

Apr 16, 2007

Drugs are good. Probably. Or maybe theyre not. Richard Garriott just cant help making you think about this stuff. His fame was founded on the moral dilemmas of the Ultimas, the games that established the very framework of what we consider the modern PC RPG. You can draw a line from his early work, via Baldurs Gate, to todays greats such as Knights of the Old Republic and Neverwinter Nights 2. But Garriott no longer makes single-player ... » Read Full Tabula Rasa preview

Tabula Rasa - updated impressions

Upcoming MMO brings sci-fi shooting to the online role-playing scene

Mar 12, 2007

Richard Garriott knows a thing or two about fantasy-based role-playing games and put his name on the map with his seminal Ultima series. With a non-compete agreement with EA and work on City of Heroes and City of Villains behind him, Garriott has set his scopes on space with Tabula Rasa - his latest shot at the online role-playing scene. Set in a futuristic world on the edge of annihilation, Tabula Rasa will throw you into the fray as a recruit in the human resistance against a xenophobic ... » Read Full Tabula Rasa preview

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