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NCsoft's Tabula Rasa Room

Dell recently took over when of NCsoft's unused cubicle rooms and helped to transform it into a Tabula Rasa Playroom. The room features a slew of hefty Dell computers and some nice Tabula Rasa textures and lighting. NCsoft was kind enough to send along these pictures for us, showing off the room and Richard Garriott giving a tour of the blue-lit gaming room to Dell's Global gaming chief Abizar Vakharia.

The room will be used for regular gaming sessions for business partners, employees and the press. Brian Crecente

5:00 PM on Tue May 8 2007
By Brian Crecente
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gils0n at 04:09 PM on 05/08/07
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Sweet room. Sucks that they're Dell machines.
vongarr at 04:24 PM on 05/08/07
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That's a hot gaming room there.
SanjiX at 04:27 PM on 05/08/07
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@gils0n:

Another stereotypical Dell basher. I actually own an XPS 710 myself and I haven't had a problem with it yet.
SpishackCola at 04:32 PM on 05/08/07
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I hope they have some ridiculous top of the line systems in there with made cooling since the recommend specs for this game are insane.
Tkrulez at 04:45 PM on 05/08/07
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Badass room. I'd love to have one of those uber XPS'
SanjiX at 05:09 PM on 05/08/07
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@SpishackCola:

All Dell computers are customizable... there only good if you make them good.

On another note, heres a pic of my computer the day I got it. http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d158/Inuyasha50095/65fds...
I was a happy man on that day...
REUYL at 06:36 PM on 05/08/07
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Needs more Gaile Gray.
silverlakerotter at 08:24 PM on 05/08/07
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I just recently saw some really good in gameplay footage of Tabular Rasa and an interview with Richard. Sounds like this could be a really good sci-fi MMO that will bring in new concepts to the tired old genre.

Speaking of which...I have a major crush on Lord British..../sigh/ so handsome

:)

oh wait, did I just say that out loud?
Maldron at 09:06 PM on 05/08/07
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Connectedness Index: 384

@silverlakerotter: Nope. Completely typed.
dnzperson at 09:46 PM on 05/08/07
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"recently took over when of NCsoft's unused

Lol.

I want one of these rooms ;-)
L_K_M at 05:26 AM on 05/09/07
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@SanjiX: The fact that your Dell works is absolutely meaningless. Our company only buys Dell, and I'd say that about 60% of them develop some kind of problem within the first year. Most of them start to get really noisy (fans or HDs), some of them started to have issues with RAM other motherboards.

Dells are generally not very well made. Of course, they're also cheaper than good PCs, so it's a tradeoff.
rodon at 12:17 PM on 05/10/07
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We had one of those dell systems pictured above in test with one of the games I worked on, and it was seriously a POS. Those things a butt-ugly too. Like a bunch of laptop parts dumped into a huge, noisy, piece of farm equipment.