Editing Update of the Avatar/Update 238 (section)

===<span id="8">Shroud in the News: The Gaming Gang, The Austin Chronicle</span>===
'''The Gaming Gang:''' Jeff McAleer interviewed Richard Garriott and Starr Long at Comic Con in a post entitled: “SDCC 2017: Richard Garriott and Starr Long Talk ‘Shroud of the Avatar’”:

:''Legendary game designer Richard Garriott and famed developer Starr Long join me to discuss the MMORPG Shroud of the Avatar. SotA is currently in early access, with an estimated launch later this year, and promises to blend multiplayer community with sandbox RPG elements from the classic Ultima series of single player games.''

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'''The Austin Chronicle:''' Richard “Lord British” Garriott loaned several of his personal game artifacts to the Texas History Museum’s upcoming videogame exhibit opening this weekend. The Chronicle’s Tucker Whatley wrote about it in an article entitled: [https://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2017-07-28/bullock-museum-scores-video-game-exhibit/ “Bullock Museum Scores Video Game Exhibit”]:

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:''One hundred rare artifacts of gaming history will be on display, many of them on loan from personal collections and never before shown to the public. Visitors will be able to catch a glimpse of the Apple II workstation Austin-based developer Richard Garriott used to create the first computer role-playing game, Akalabeth; a page from the Doom “bible,” the blueprint for the legendary first-person shooter; and even a prototype Brown Box, engineer Ralph Baer’s late-Sixties invention that is the grandfather of all video game consoles.''

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