"Rascal! Rascal, stop that. You know better than to jump all over guests! Rascal, down!"
Magic 2010 (or M10 as the cool kids are calling it) is the first Magic: the Gathering core set with new cards in it. Here’s a Robot Viking exclusive preview of a new red creature - Jackal Familiar.
I started waving a checkered flag and everyone looked at me funny. I guess it's not that kind of race.
Every galactic empire starts out small, but if you can grow your empire fast enough, you might end up with 12 planets under your control. You can clench them in an iron fist, or build a galactic utopia. Rio Grande’s Race for the Galaxy is a planet colonization card game roughly based on the San Juan/Puerto Rico game mechanics, and it’s one of the better sci-fi themed card games I’ve seen.
The Martians Are Due on Maple Street
When I heard that Twilight Creations would be showing of their new Martians!!! game at Origins, I was excitedly anticipating a sci-fi twist on their classic invasion game Zombies!!! Unfortunately, there isn’t quite enough twist to set this game apart from its shambling predecessors.
Depending on the scale here, we're either looking at some very big guns or a very uncomfortable pilot.
Ninja Magic was at Origins this year showing off the miniatures from their upcoming starship tactical combat game titled With Hostile Intent. We’ve got a gallery of gorgeous ships and some details on the mystery central to With Hostile Intent’s universe.
There will be dice.
Every ten years or so, a game comes along that changes everything. Magic essentially created the collectible gaming industry, while Mage Knight made miniature gaming accessible to the tabletop masses. Now, I’m trying to avoid hyperbole here, so I won’t say that Arcane Legions is that kind of a game. But it might be.
Even if you have no idea what these are, they just look cool.
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to take control of a 100-ton walking armored weapons platform (and who hasn’t?), you may want to make some summer travel plans. These simulator pods are probably the closest you can come to real BattleTech combat.
No one in this photograph is watching TV.
Here we are at Origins, Day Three. Wait, Day Four? I have no idea how long I’ve been here. I do know that I played about a half dozen different games today, plus an entire Magic tournament. If we each get our own personal Heaven, mine includes a perpetual game con.
Well, here I am at Origins. There are lots of games. I am going to play as many of them as humanly possible in the next three days.
More importantly, her sword stabs more beautifully than any choir.
Sometimes, you just shouldn’t mess with classics. Fifth and Sixth Edition were like the New Formula Coke of Magic core sets (”Now with 100% Less Serra Angel!”). The iconic white creature came back with Seventh Edition and each subsequent core set, and M10 is no different. Sharp-eyed readers will note, however, that she’s been demoted.
Usually found in the sewers of Los Angeles (major geek points if you can name the reference).
Preview number four, Ant Queen. She’s very big, very green and is going to be very annoying to play against.
Uhhh...Summon Buffy?
Magic 2010 preview number three: Vampire Nocturnus, a card that says, “I know those other colors are pretty, but I’d really prefer if you stayed with black.” Who am I to argue?
Garruk, my man! You been working out, dude? You are looking seriously mythic these days bro!
Our second Magic 2010 preview of the day is one of Lorwyn’s mighty planeswalkers. An Argothian Elder, Call of the Herd and Overrun all in one card? I don’t know, I guess some people might find a use for him…
Good thing I maindeck four copies of Phyrexian Scuba Gear.
We’ve got five cards to preview from this summer’s new Magic: the Gathering core set, Magic 2010. Let’s kick things off by answering a hotly debated question: what kind of dual lands will we get?
Stoking the flames of revolution? Or just melting down some silver to make bullets?
Rogue Games released the revised edition of their Colonial Gothic RPG this week, and contributing writer Joe Grabianowski (no relation to me) has a full review (ok, I’ll admit it, he’s my brother). The colonial era was a trying period in reality, with brutal wars, political upheaval and a merciless wilderness that brought death to the doorstep on a regular basis. But what if there were creatures out there?
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