Our MMO-loving readers out there may want to take some time out to update their flash players. It's come to our attention that there's a vulnerability in old versions of Adobe Flash that could be used to target MMO gamers. Learn more about it after the jump.

Here's an important update for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa that players should keep in mind. A community representative has announced that an incremental update will be heading to the test server soon. This update, as you can probably guess, aims to fix some issues found in the 1.6 build. More on this after the jump.

We're certainly a bit intrigued by this latest bit of news over on the Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa webpage, but it gives our friends out in Kansas City a definite chance to shine.

Apparently, the folks at NCsoft are looking for some Tabula Rasa players in Kansas who have an interesting story to tell about their gameplay experiences, and it seems they want you to get the spotlight as you tell it. To learn more, check out the full article.

Over at the official website for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, NCSoft's looking for a few brave souls who's willing to help spread the holiday spirit. Via three online auctions, they're giving us the chance to be an NPC and to help folks from the Child's Play charity. Find out more information on this after the jump!

NCsoft recently let out the news that they have a Public Test Server up for Richard Garriot's Tabula Rasa, and they're looking for some brave men and women who want to test out the pending additions and tweaks they have for the game. Of course, there's no monetary compensation, but you do get to see the best of what NCsoft has to offer for the game, in addition to having tons of fun trying out the new changes.

More on the Public Test Server after the jump!

NCSoft's Richard Garriot's Tabula Rasa MMORPGdoesn't seem like a hotbed of conspiracy, but apparently, we were mistaken. It seems slippery things are afoot in the fight for survival against the Bane. We've intercepted two sets of intelligence messages related to our earlier report on the existence of a security breach within the AFS itself.

For those who missed our previous report, the two pieces of intel seem to be connected, with the first post relating to the continuing attempts to replicate Bane experiments on AFS soil. The second relates to information found by Sarah Morrison about a set of Hominus Machina, apparently fake humans, who are operating in key facilities of the AFS.

Combine the two pieces of information, and it may just be that the Bane are using AFS resources to replicate Bane experiments, eventually usurping the experiments and key facilities for the Bane.

In any event, you can view the full transcript of the two messages on your right. Expect more to be revealed once the game comes out on November 2.

Only in Richard Garriott'sTabula Rasa from NCsoft can you find an in-game event that tasks you with killing the creator of the game itself. As NCsoft gears up for the actual launch of the game, the folks at the official Tabula Rasa website are inviting beta players to join them for a special end-of-beta event: to hunt down General British and take him down with a well-placed shot from your plasma rifle.

In anticipation of the upcoming launch of Tabula Rasa, they're inviting gamers far and wide to join in the fun by joining the in-game event to kill General British. The event is scheduled for Friday, October 26, 2007 from 10:00 PM to 11:59 PM Central Time.

That isn't exactly a lot of time to go hunting for a man with a bounty on his head, but it's certainly an interesting way to spend one's final moments in beta, right? Keep checking QJ for updates on this end-of-beta event, as well as for additional news and contest updates for Richard Garriot's Tabula Rasa.

 

Heads up, Tabula Rasa fans, it seems the AFS is looking for a few good photo manipulators. We've just received word that NCSoft is sponsoring a wallpaper creation contest, with big prizes in store for the best looking wallpapers. All you have to do is use the game's assets to make your very own wallpaper for the game, save it in multiple sizes, and send it to the them and you're all set.

According to the contest details, there will be a total of six winners: one grand prize winner, second place and third place winners, and three runners-up. To pique your interest in the contest, here's what the grand prize winner will receive:

• 1 Antec Neo Power 650 Blue (a 650 watt PSU with a Blue LED fan)
• 1 Antec Nine Hundred - Ultimate Gamer Case
• 1 Zboard Gaming Keyboard by Ideazon
• 1 Ideazon Tabula Rasa Keyset
• 1 Ideazon Tabula Rasa FragMat Mouse Pad
• 1 Ideazon Reaper Gaming Mouse
• 1 Tabula Rasa Duffle Bag
• 1 Tabula Rasa T-shirt
• 1 Tabula Rasa Challenge Coin
• 1 Tabula Rasa Beanie

That's certainly a lot of free swag for making an awesome wallpaper! To view the contest details, feel free to visit the read link below for more details. Good luck!

 

There's certainly no rest for the weary in the world known as Arieki. Being a desolate wasteland complete with electromagnetic storms and volcanoes certainly doesn't help the planet's reputation either. In NCSoft's Tabula Rasa, however, you're going to have to visit the place eventually.

That being said, folks who intend to enlist for the ASF will definitely want to take heed and look at this screenshot. In it, we see one of the many soldiers working to liberate the planets from the Bane, and to that, she has to take on the Bane and other monstrous enemies on Arieki's Ashen Desert . Just so you know how unbearable it is, it is said that in the Ashen Desert, ambient temperatures can grow so high that even dust particles in the air catch flame.

Such a description doesn't bode well for soldiers stationed in the arid wilderness, but if anything, the ability to persevere in such hostile environments is a testament to the strength of the human race.

If you've ever played Where's Waldo, then you have a pretty good idea of what the folks at NCSoft and World of Roleplayers Radio have cooked up for beta testers in Tabula Rasa. On Friday, August 10, at approximately 8:00 to 10:00 P.M. Central time, the World of Roleplayers Radio website and NCSoft will be sponsoring a "Find General British" beta event on the U.S. Server.

In this event, which players will engage in an epic MMO version of hide and seek as they try and find Richard Garriott's avatar inside the game world. The first people to find General British will receive a variety of prizes, from T-Shirts, Dog Tags, Signed Artwork from Tabula Rasa's Dev Team, Tabula Rasa Challenge Coins, and an NCSoft iPod.

Folks will be enticed to listen in on World of Roleplayers Radio as CuppaJo will be offering clues to General British's location during the broadcast to help players out. All in all, it certainly sounds like a fun alternative to spend an evening of beta testing, doesn't it?

In any case, if you don't have a beta key for yourself just yet, you can check out the source link we have below for more tips and info on getting a Tabula Rasa beta key of your very own.