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Shack News is reporting that NC Soft announced today that Tabula Rasa brought in $5.4 million:

The November release of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa (PC) recorded $5.4 million in sales, representing only 6% of total earnings for the calendar year. Meanwhile, NCSoft noted that sustained sales of its PC MMOs Lineage and Lineage II were responsible for an 11% boost in earnings during the holiday season, accounting for 76% of the company's total sales.

That's a nice proportion of the total $48.4 million earned all told.

The latest Feedback Friday feature is available now! This entry contains news of CuppaJo's promotion to Associate Producer, a preview of the 1.5 patch and information on a variety of upcoming community activities. Notably absent from this entry is the typical mini-Q&A.;

Report here for your Feedback Friday update, soldier!

As part of the Chinese New Year celebration in Tabula Rasa players will be receiving a batch of fireworks in their backs to celebrate in style. There is one caveat though, all this merrymaking is really getting under the skin of the Bane so expect them to take this opportunity to rain on your parade -- in a hail of gunfire! So, have fun, but be alert!

For the full story click here.

Ultima and Tabula Rasa creator Richard Garriott shared an interview with Gamasutra and talked about games as an art medium, calling them a 'pulp fiction', amongst many other subjects:

"Are games art? They can, and I think, should be. How much "art" there is in a game is up to the developer.

There's a lot of games which I'll describe as just pulp [as in the magazine genre], but absolutely: I think there's lots of great art in games. A lot of my favorite games, actually, are the ones we think of as the most artistic. Games like Myst, or American McGee's Alice, Abe's Oddysee."

Read the rest at Gamasutra.

MMORPG.com has posted an exclusive interview with TR Lead Designer Paul Sage as well as a 2.5 minute video highlighting the hybrid races in Tabula Rasa. Here's a snip from the interview:

MMORPG.com: We've heard there are three Human-alien hybrids, Brann, Forean and Thrax. What is the fiction behind them?

Paul Sage:I don't want to give too much of the fiction away, because that might ruin the fun of discovering it in game. However, I will say that the DNA of all of these races share a common marker and from there, the AFS have found a way to put the 'best characteristics' of the alien races into humanity.

You can see the video by clicking "Read More".

It's that time again for another Feedback Friday and things seem to be rolling along. This week, the devs talk about the build 1.4 and also a Q&A; section talking about server transfers and other things.

Read the Feedback after the jump!

It's that time again for another Feedback Friday and things seem to be rolling along. This week, the devs talk about the build 1.4 and also a Q&A; section talking about server transfers and other things.

Read the Feedback after the jump!

Gamespy is featuring nine screenshots from Tabula Rasa. Here's a peek at one of them:

Head over to see the other eight.

The new patch 1.4 notes released today can be considered a major improvement for the game overall, with some of the most demanded features added, like hybrid spliced DNA races, un-nerfing the Guardian staff abilities, major item rarity tweaks and much more:

* Several items that had lower-than-normal stats were changed to reflect the proper item rarity. This may have resulted in a change in your character's armor appearance. For example, if you had a purple item with lower stats then a blue item, then the purple item will now have proper stats and a new look!
* Health has now been upped for all characters.
* Added new Operation: Sanctus Grotto. This Operation will be available 1/25/08 on the Test Server.
* The option to show/hide the helmet on your player has been added to the options under game->appearance.
* Torden Plains TOO kill 100 nitroglazers has been changed to kill 50 nitroglazers. For the next patch, 1.5 it will be changed to 50 Shield Drones instead...

Read the complete list after the jump!

The latest entry to the Feedback Friday feature is now available at the Tabula Rasa Official Site. Along with some community Q&A; as usual are news of the 1.4.2 patch being ready for deployment to the Public Test Server, 3 month veteran rewards, and details on how TR will be celebrating Chinese New Year.

You can find the update here.