In the meantime, another Viking game is on the brink of an Early Access release. It's called Frozenheim, and while it's a city builder with RTS combat rather than a survival game, it may give you ...

Historian William Short watches and rates depictions of Viking combat in movies and TV shows. He discusses Viking shield formations in "Vikings." He outlines brutal village raid tactics in "The ...

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla got its first combat reveal at Sunday’s Ubisoft Forward event, giving us a glimpse of the Norse combat that will take the fight to the English Isles.

Playing through many more variations of such combat scenarios has helped combat archaeologist Rolf Warming, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, to “rediscover” Viking fighting techniques. Wearing 12 ...