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Video Game Review: Final Fantasy 7 Remake

At Goonhammer, our passion for games extends well beyond the tabletop. Each week, Jonathan “Crion” Bernhardt reviews video games, even the ones that aren’t Warhammer-related. In today’s review, he’s talking about the recently-released Final Fantasy 7 Remake.   Warning: This article...

Goonhammer Reviews: Path of Exile

At Goonhammer, our passion for games extends well beyond the tabletop. Each week, Jonathan "Crion" Bernhardt reviews video games, even the ones that aren't Warhammer-related. In today's review, he's talking about Path of Exile, which recently received a major...

Video Game Review: Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem

Anyone who has played Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem for any length of time since its launch last week has a story. Mine came rather late into the play experience, relatively speaking; I’d heard beforehand the tales of how poorly the...

Video Game Review: FTL

In a very fundamental way, FTL is a game about doors. Let’s back up. FTL: Faster Than Light is not a new game; unlike with Hades or Slay the Spire, we’re not reviewing it here in an effort to help...

The Narrative Forge: Campaigns, Part 3: Tree Campaigns

The Warhammer 40,000 universe is a massive place, and the “Narrative Forge” hobby articles encourage thinking outside the box (literally) when putting models together and stretching yourself out in the hobby. They aim to make hobbyists and players comfortable...

Book Review: Eisenhorn – Xenos

So, you want to make a Warhammer 40K television show. What’s more, you want to make it about the factions that have been the protagonists of the setting since the intellectual property took off -- the Space Marines, the...

Video Game Retrospective: Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior

Warhammer 40K: Fire Warrior is among the worst games I’ve ever played. Part of the problem is that this game came out two years after Halo: Combat Evolved. The original Halo title. A game that still holds up in 2019....

Video Game Retrospective: Dawn of War 3

So, at long last, we’re here. Dawn of War III is a dead game. All the Dawn of War games are dead games now, to be fair, but you can usually find at least some diehards still doing The Last...

Video Game Retrospective: Dawn of War 2: Retribution

It’s been a while! Now that NOVA’s over we’re back in the saddle with the Dawn of War II retrospective for the second, final, and most important expansion, Retribution. This is pretty much the final form of the Dawn...

The 2019 NOVA 40K Narrative Event

The NOVA Open comprises some four levels of the Hyatt at National Airport in Washington D.C. -- everyone who had to walk up and down the broken escalator felt that one -- and there were, roughly, one and a...