Robot Viking

Another day, another shuttered game company – or, in this case, gaming magazine. Scrye Magazine’s final issue will be #131, the April 2009 edition, ending a 15 year run.

Competitive play for Fantasy Flight’s Call of Cthulhu Living Card Game takes on a new dimension when the league format begins this March. Which jersey number should you give to Nyarlathotep? Whichever one he asks for.

More grim tidings for comic book loving gamers – superhero collectible card game Vs. has been given the death sentence by Upper Deck. All we can do now is hope that next year, we’ll find out this cancelled Vs. game was really a cosmic entity only pretending to be Vs., while the real Vs. was [...]

Privateer Press just sent me the corrected stats for the new Planet Eaters Scorcher and Scorcher Elite units. The grunt version is not quite as scorchy as it appeared.

Strap on your rocket packs and whip out your ray guns – the Slipstream setting for Pinnacle’s Savage Worlds RPG brings pulp science-fiction excitement with both blasters blazin’. If you’re wondering why characters can breath in space, just repeat to yourself, “It’s just a game, I should really just relax.”

This week’s MotW is shameless self-aggrandizement and self-promotion all wrapped in one rusting, heavily-armed package. Why does this beat up old Thunderbird have what appears to be a deck gun mounted on the roof? Because Project: Death Race is underway.

We’re going into Monsterpocalypse overload, with yet another preview from the upcoming “I Chomp NY” expansion. The Scorcher (and the amazing Elite Scorcher) will really light up your Planet Eaters force.

Paizo Publishing has announced the 32 finalists for this year’s edition of RPG Superstar. After hundreds of game designer hopefuls sent in their ideas for wondrous items, Paizo’s panel of experts whittled the field to the best of the best. The winner gets to write a module for Paizo’s D&D 3.5 variant, Pathfinder.

What does it take to create a monster? Or destroy a city? Erik Yaple knows, and he was kind enough to share the diabolical answers with Robot Viking. No, he isn’t a mad scientist or a super-villain. He’s one of the designers of Monsterpocalypse. Actually, that doesn’t necessarily mean he isn’t also a mad scientist/super-villain. [...]

The editors at Robot Viking are hard at work on the first original Robot Viking game, a tactical game of automotive combat using Matchbox/Hot Wheels scale cars. Project: Death Race is intended to be a fast-paced, exciting game that allows players to perform the types of insane stunts usually reserved for Hollywood car chases. Robot [...]

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Matt Slaydon is a gamer, like many other military personnel. His current game of choice is 4th Edition D&D, and he isn’t going to let the Iraqi roadside bomb that stole his left arm and his eyesight get in the way of his hobby.

This week’s Miniature of the Week is a truly stunning piece of large-scale terrain work. If a Wild West miniatures game never seemed like your cup of tea, check out the full-size version of this photo and maybe you’ll change your mind.

The long tradition of Dungeons & Dragons bestiaries continues with next week’s release of Open Grave: Secrets of the Undead. Surprise appearances by old favorites and new twists make this a great way to add some maggoty, rotting evil to your game world.

With the grand opening under our belts, I just wanted to say thanks to all our new visitors. We have some pretty fun plans in store for Robot Viking, and we want our readers to be a big part of them. I think the Robot Viking himself put it best earlier today, when he said, [...]