Robot Viking

It’s a been a tumultuous year for D&D. Last year’s Gen Con presentations were full of big ideas and a release schedule packed with ambition, including the beginner-friendly Essentials line. Eleven months later the release schedule has been trimmed, long-time Wizards’ employees have been laid off, and Essentials appears to have crashed and burned in [...]

The release of Masters of the Force brings us to the end of the road with the Star Wars Miniatures game. It was a good run. Now all those little plastic Jedi are one with the Force.

Wizards of the Coast’s Star Wars RPG is going out in style with Unknown Regions, an old-school RPG book filled with monsters, traps, unexplored star systems and some powerful GM tools.

I know the whole “put new subtitles on the Hitler gets bad news movie clip” thing is the very definition of played out when it comes to Internet memes, but if you’re a Magic player, this one is worth the view.

The good news is, druids are a hell of a lot better in 4th Edition than they were in 3rd edition. The bad news is…honestly, there’s no bad news. Druids are pretty sweet.

A commenter over at HCRealms mentions something worth repeating: if you need something from the Wizkids website, best get it now, while you still can. While a lot of the rulebooks and terrain templates will probably show up on fansites, you can save yourself the effort of tracking them down later by archiving them now. [...]

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.

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 [...]

It’s not exactly breaking news that Wizkids has been dissolved by Topps and is no longer selling or supporting their many games, but what will it mean for gamers? The one-time king of the collectible miniatures hill has been wiped right off the map, and there might not be anyone in a position to fill [...]