There is a Tabula Rasa Q&A on GameBunny, asking NCSoft's Richard Garriott about this upcoming MMORPG. Questions are about the showing of the game at E3, bringing fun back to the genre, voice chat, character customization, player housing and more.

About 3 years ago Richard Gariott unveiled Tabula Rasa. Yesterday the official site went online, offering a bunch of screenshots and background information.

Gamespot had the scoop of Gariott's new game - Tabula Rasa.

... Tabula Rasa will apparently feature several unique aspects in its design-- not the least of which will be the fact that getting a copy of Tabula Rasa won't cost you a cent. (ed- Hurray 1!)

That doesn't mean you'll just be able to walk into your local computer store and walk out with a copy; Tabula Rasa won't be distributed in boxes, but purely in digital form. (ed- Hurray2!) ...

The game will not have a medieval swords-and-sorcery setting, nor will it be a science fiction epic. Garriott didn't explicitly state what it actually would be. (ed- Hurray 3!)

Ok - I know Ultima 9 was "a dissapointment", but have a little faith. A lot of that was because of the poor technical implementation. This Tabula Rasa thing starts off with what seem to be very good idea's, and I for one think that with the proper team to back it up this game could be very good. It'll be 2.5 years before we'll find out though - because that's the planned development time. (Read lots more @ Gamespot)

Update: Whoah... looks like this will be a rich man's game. Richard Gariott was recently interviewed and stated the following:

One of the biggest mistakes Starr and I made with Ultima Online was only charging $10 per month, "(NCSoft) started in Korea at $30 with no resistance. We think we could have asked a lot more.... "Tabula Rosa is going to be at least $15 - maybe $20." (ed- Boooooo!)

$240 a year to play a MMORPG. That's a whole lot of money. I sure as hell aint paying that, no matter how good the game. Blame disembodied potato for any mistakes, because he sent the quote to me.