How does a game world end? Gamasutra´s Chris Remo was there when NCsoft´s Tabula Rasa was played for the very last time.
Following you find his description, complete and unabridged. See what an experience it is to see a world end.

Last Friday, I visited a doomed world for the first time. more...

NCsoft´s unsuccessful online game Tabula Rasa is shutting down today. However, the game is newsworthy one last time, because the world will not go down the tubes quietly. more...

The highly anticipated MMO Guild Wars 2 seems to have suffered a major setback: According to publisher / developer nc soft, Guild Wars 2's release window is "to be announced" somewhen in 2010 or 2011. You can download the NCshoft Earnings Release (Q4 2008 & FY2009 Forecast) here. more...

The South-Korean developer and publisher NCSoft was recently sued by the virtual world platform Worlds.com. more...

You have played and enjoyed Tabula Rasa and are now very sad because the servers will be shut down? more...

Tabula Rasa, the newest MMO from Richard Garriott (of Ultima Online fame and therefore a pioneer of the genre that Blizzard by now dominates) was not really off to a very good start last year. After some major patches, many issues had been adressed and the small community slightly grew, but one of the major problems still was that the game ceased to be fun once you had a high-level character. There was just no really motivating endgame content in there. This will soon change with a major patch, which is about to bring some serious amount of endgame content into the game by ... ending it. (oh, see what I did there?) more...

It has been almost 12 months ago that I stopped power-playing Guild Wars. Back then, I would sign in about every day to explore the wide worlds of NCsoft's MMO with some companions: either real-life buddies or heroic NPCs. I was never much into PvP, but also not into PvE either. I somehow resented the idea to fight through each mission. There were other ways in Guild Wars to advance that I grew fond of: running right through the middle. more...

The superhero slash supervillain MMO's City of Heroes and City of Villains were up to now separated from each other. If you wanted to acces the villain world, you had to buy a retail copy of the respective game. If you rather felt like being the good-hearted superhero, you had to go for the equivalent. But you didn't have access to both worlds by only buying one of the two games. more...

UPDATE: We've just learned that NCsoft, who will not be joining E3 in mid-July, plan to attend PAX (Penny Arcade Expo) in Seattle, which will start in 58 days, 23 hours and 23 minutes. Sadly, at this stage, the Guild Wars team is not giving interviews.

This may sound like a direct blow to the face of every Guild Wars fan out there: the Guild Wars 2 Beta has now been officially postponed to next year. It seems that the development of the subscription-free MMO is still in need of much more time. more...

"City of Heroes" did just turn four years old and is still up and running together with its evil twin "City of Villains", but not only that: NCSoft seem to want to more...