Tabula Rasa media train starts to roll

By Andrew Knight | May 3, 2007 | | Filed under: News | Tags: Austin, Christmas, Executive Producer, Richard Garriott, Stephen Hawking, Summer Games, the ten year anniversary of Ultima Online and the size

The pre-release marketing campaign for NCSoft‘s Tabula Rasa (TR) has started. Richard Garriott, Executive Producer of NCsoft Austin and a brand name unto himself as his alter ego Lord British, has been in the media with an interview over at Games Industry.biz about the ten year anniversary of Ultima Online and the size of the MMOG market. NCsoft also issued a press release today about Mr Garriott’s recent Zero G experience on the vomit comet with Stephen Hawking (he’s the one holding the apple sat down in the middle) -

Mr Garriott will also appear this Friday on G4-TV’s “X-Play Summer Games Preview” and finally NCsoft Europe have just started a competition to get your own emote to appear in the game. Other then the competition none of these are explicitly related to TR, however this appears to be the start of the marketing campaign to make the world know about the release of the game (expected ‘this year’, which probably means the Christmas period). As the months go on we can expect to be seeing more interviews and previews starting to appear across the gaming media.