Company press release:
Astronaut and Hall-of-Fame Game Designer,
Richard Garriott, Returns to Gaming
With New Social Media Company: Portalarium

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 17, 2010 – After a two-year hiatus to travel to the International Space Station, work on a film documentary, ignite a personal rapid transit initiative, and wrap up post-flight experiments and speaking engagements, veteran game designer, Richard Garriott, is returning to the video game industry where he has been a fixture for more than 30 years – this time with a broad-based new social media company called Portalarium™. Garriott is best known for his award-winning Ultima Series (ORIGIN/Electronic Arts) of fantasy role playing games and Ultima Online, the first commercially successful massively multiplayer online game released in 1997 and still operating today.

For more information visit the company site:
http://www.portalarium.com/

Don’t get me wrong: I appreciate any support the community is willing to throw my way — hosting isn’t exactly cheap. At the same time, I don’t want to splash “HEY, DONATE!” all over the site face. I like to think that this way, it is left as more of an option (and in truth, it was only ever added because people started emailing me asking if there was a system in place to drop a few bucks into the kitty.)

And then too, I wish I had more time to invest in getting the site back up to ship-shape condition for y’all. I don’t want to make my tip-mongering too bleedingly obvious when the site is operating at less than 100% capacity.