Jonathan Bernhardt

Nintendo Direct 2/21/2024: A Cult-Favorite Franchise Returns, A Whole Lot of Ports, and South Park

We look at everything revealed at today's Nintendo Direct event.

Xbox Bringing Four Unnamed Titles to PlayStation, Switch

Four unnamed titles previously exclusive to the Microsoft gaming platform will be coming to other platforms in the future, the company announced Thursday. “We made a decision that we’re going to take four games to the other consoles,” said Phil...

The Goonhammer Review, Game of the Year Season: Alan Wake 2

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS COMPREHENSIVE STORY SPOILERS FOR ALAN WAKE 2.   To get this out of the way up front: I didn’t really like the musical number. Alan Wake 2 is the long-anticipated sequel to a game that was frankly kind of...

Final Fantasy XVI: The Goonhammer Review

This review contains endgame spoilers for Final Fantasy XVI. I had to sit with this one a little bit. I could have started writing this review some time back in July, because I didn’t get it early and I was really...

Diablo IV: The Goonhammer Review

Turns out our instincts were right. About a week into the full release of Diablo IV, it’s safe to say that Blizzard is back in the saddle again. This review is coming out when it is for very similar reasons...

Diablo 4 Beta: Blizzard’s Back

Blizzard had to make a good game again eventually, right? Another great tentpole to hold up part of the entire Activision Blizzard King plate-spinning affair, even -- and especially -- as the company soldiers through acquisition talks with Microsoft...

Andor: Star Wars Won’t Ever Be Permitted to Be Better Than This

This review contains spoilers for Andor. Is Andor the best television show this year? Seems like a question that, on the face of it and if you’ve been consuming media about it, is easily answered. This is then the part...

Gotham Knights Review: The Kids Are Alright; The Game Design Is Not

What’s a Batman game without Batman? I’ve been stewing over various formulations of that for some ten years. I got into Batman comics in the Nineties; I didn’t hide from all the dumb stuff that they did there. I embraced...

Immortality – An FMV Contender for Game of the Year

This article will contain spoilers, general and specific, for Immortality. There will be another spoiler warning when specific story discussion begins. Immortality is pretty close to being my game of the year. And I was pretty sure that selection was...

Spider-Man Remastered: The Goonhammer Review

Spider-Man is a great game when you focus on its core conceit and core promise: That you get to play as Peter Parker, Spider-Man, and webswing through a full, if not one-to-one recreation of the island of Manhattan and...

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With Donald Trump's tariffs dominating the news, we've got an explainer of what they are and what they mean for games, beyond the obvious that's going on right now.
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