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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 [...]

We’ve been hard at work here at Robot Viking HQ deveoping the first Robot Viking original game. We were hoping to have the alpha rules for Project: Death Race posted this week. So why is it taking so long? ‘Cause this game design stuff is harder than it looks.

Alignment has always been an imperfect way to determine how a character in an RPG makes moral choices and reacts to various situations. Plus, we can’t all be expert improvisational actors. These ten questions will help give you some concrete ways to consider ahead of time how your character might react to common in-game events. [...]

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.”