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I was poking around some sites that have been sending links to Robot Viking, and I noticed two things on gaming message boards: 1). a generally positive attitude towards Robot Viking (thank you, I’m glad you like the site!) and 2). a few specific complaints about the site that I think are completely valid. So [...]

Last year, Wizards held the first Magic: the Gathering Online Community Cup. The event pitted members of the Magic Online Community and Magic media members against a crack team of Wizards employees, with prizes for the MTGO community at large at stake. The Community Team won in 2009, and this year I’ll have a chance [...]

This clanking metal warrior is the work of artist Brian Marshall. He creates robot sculptures from found objects like oil cans and old cutlery, including a series of robot Vikings. Check out this gallery of his work.

It was exactly 365 days ago that the very first Robot Viking post was made. To celebrate one year of existence, Robot Viking will be hosting a month long reverse birthday party. What’s a reverse birthday party? One where the guests get all the gifts.

Robot Viking couldn’t really call itself a blog without doing some kind of “year in review” article, right? Actually, I never call this a blog, because I hate that word. So here is a look back at some of the many things that did not happen in 2009.

Robot Viking is taking the week off. Hopefully, you have a few days off from school or work yourself — days which you are putting to good use playing games! We’ll be back in 2010 to celebrate Robot Viking’s birthday. Seriously, it’s been a whole year since the site launched.

Do have $20? Do you have a game, book or miniature you’d like to sell? Do you run an online or brick and mortar game store? Artist? Author? Enthusiast? Would you like your work to be seen by a few hundred avid gamers every single day for a month? Are you an alien infiltrator looking [...]

As we mentioned last week, Dungeons & Dragons Online is a free to play MMORPG. We’ve been organizing an adventuring group on the Robot Viking forums, and tonight we’re trying to schedule our first official meet-up. We haven’t picked a specific mission or raid or whatever, we can figure that out when we see who [...]

Robot Viking headquarters has suffered some flooding. We will return to our regularly scheduled programming on Tuesday (or Wednesday, if it floods again tonight).

I’m taking a day or two off this week to work on other projects. When we return to our regularly scheduled programming later this week, we’ll have the next revision of the Project: Death Race alpha rules, plus reviews of Divine Power, the Eberron Campaign Guide and the Rebellion Era Campaign Guide for the Star [...]

This week is the Origins Game Fair in Columbus, OH, and Robot Viking will be there with all the latest news and reviews on games and gaming products. It’s going to be an awesome week.

Lots of people have asked about this (don’t feel bad, it took me awhile to figure it out too). If you don’t want to be stuck with the generic faceless avatar when you comment at Robot Viking, just head over to Gravatar. You can upload your own custom avatar there – it’s free. Your avatar [...]

The results of the Robot Viking reader survey are in. There was a lot eye-opening information to be gleaned from the responses (and some info that was pretty much what I expected). We got some great comments, too, so I thought I’d share a little of the behind-the-scenes action and answer a few questions. Plus, [...]

In the interest of making Robot Viking a better gaming site (and gleaning some useful info about our readers), we’ve put together a brief reader survey. It’s quick, doesn’t ask for personal info, and at the end you can optionally enter your email address. Next week, there will be a random drawing of all the [...]