NCsoft have announced that Richard Garriott´s Tabula Rasa has reached gold master status and will launch commercial service in Europe and North America on October 19, 2007. Pre-order customers will begin their three-day head start on October 16.

Tabula Rasa is gaming legend Richard Garriott´s newest title, which combines a vast, persistent game world and rich storyline with fast paced action. Set in a near-future science fiction storyline, players create characters that must fight to save humanity against hostile alien enemies while trying to gain control of the universe. The game introduces several innovative elements to massively multiplayer online (MMO) games, including a Character Cloning System (which allows players to explore different character classes without having to create a new character) and dynamic battlefields where players experience the frenetic action of combat in an ongoing war.

"It has been a heck of a journey. The fact that we are getting ready for the final stretch towards launch feels great, but it is also just the beginning. I think we´ve managed to do something truly unique and I hope that the gaming community likes it as much as we do. Now, I am looking forward to a really fun ´end of beta event´ for our incredible testers, and focusing development on new planets and innovations for future expansions of Tabula Rasa." said Richard Garriott, the game?s Executive Producer.

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