Jonathan Bernhardt

The first thing anyone who talks about when they talk about Peacemaker, the HBO Max show starring John Cena and directed by James Gunn which spins off the antagonist from Gunn’s debut DC property The Suicide Squad into a...

First I have to open with a condemnation of writer Jonathan Bernhardt, a cretin and a fool, who tweeted these two things in September of last year, which feels roughly like it was sixteen months ago: https://twitter.com/jonbernhardt/status/1434921744142409732 I, Jonathan Bernhardt, on...

It is not particularly surprising Helsreach: The Animation is good, given what’s come out of it since; a partnership with Games Workshop to create the Angels of Death series, general acclaim, even just the thing actually getting the funding...

It’s time, once again, to play a game that hates you, and takes pride in hating you. Darkest Dungeon II is in Early Access now (on the Epic Game Store for a year before wider release, so on and...

There is still technically time for this to change, but at this point in the year -- lurching into October, with much of the release schedule for the rest of 2021 dead in the water -- I think Psychonauts...

Humankind is probably the best love letter to what people think Civilization used to be yet, and that’s for good and for ill. I’m more of a fan of Civilization II than I am of Civilization IV, mainly due to...

This is almost what Warhammer 40K licensed products should all be. That’s not prescriptively true, of course; far from it. The Warhammer 40K universe is big enough to fit in all kinds of titles, from third-person character action games to...

And farewell to all that MEss.  I’ve now spent some combined 200 hours playing Mass Effect games over the past few months (with a couple rounds of technical difficulties unrelated to the games themselves near the end), so it’s perhaps...

I’ve now completed Mass Effect 2 for either the seventh or the eighth time, and I have some thoughts on the matter. First, the occasion: we’re going through all three of the original Mass Effect games in their remastered form,...

Mass Effect is the game that should have saved the CRPG, in all honesty. It didn’t, but that wasn’t its fault. Originally released in 2007, the first entry into the iconic and now semi-defunct hybrid shooter/CRPG series was much, much...