Richard Garriott Awarded $28 Million in NCSoft Lawsuit

Ultima creator and Tabula Rasa designer Richard 'Lord British' Garriott has won his lawsuit against his former employeer NCSoft, the Statesman reports, and will be awarded $28 million. Garriott alleged that the publisher fired him--while he was in quarantine after returning from space , no less--but presented it as him voluntarily quitting. This caused his stock options to expire sooner, forcing him to sell into what his lawsuit described as "one of the worst equity markets in modern history." Th...