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Crusade Mission Pack: Containment – The Goonhammer Review

As with the prior Campaign books for 9th edition 40k, Octarius book 1 comes with a companion Crusade tome, the Containment mission pack. As with prior Crusade packs, Containment gives us all new rules and missions for playing games...

Metroid Dread: The Goonhammer Review

I've been a Metroid fan since the early days, having Justin Bailey'd my way through the NES adventure and spent time in the deserted labyrinths of SR-388 hunting metroids on a Gameboy long before the series' most beloved instalment...

Hitting the Not So Dusty Trails: A Turn Order Review

I find my board game collection shrinking, and my board game time shrinking with it. I recently went through a fairly massive gaming clean out, and the biggest conclusion I reached over time was this: I don’t have time for...

6 Things You Need to Know About the New Ork Kill Rig/Hunta Rig

Happy weekend, Dear Reader. We're a week out from the release of perhaps the most anticipated unit in the recent Codex: Orks - The Kill Rig. Games Workshop was kind enough to send us a preview copy of the...

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Review, Part 3 – Multicolor, DFCs, and Colorless

Just in time for Halloween we’re returning once again to Innistrad. The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting longer, and we’ve got an entire set of spooky new cards to shake up every format. In today’s set...

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Review, Part 2 – WUBRG

Magic's newest expansion has us returning to Innistrad just in time for Halloween. Innistrad: Midnight Hunt is the first of two expansions set in the horror-themed plane, and this first set sees the story focusing on the besieged humans'...

Codex Orks: Review Roundup

Goonhammer was provided with a review copy of Codex Orks by Games Workshop. Codex Orks is up for preorder today, letting all the budding Warbosses out there who missed the boat on the Beast Snaggas box get in on the...

Commander Unstable Mutation: Dungeons of Death (Dungeons & Dragons: Adventure in the Forgotten Realms)

With the imminent release of the new D&D: Forgotten Realms set, we're meeting in a grimy tavern for some ale and to review the set's new cards. In this article we'll examine one of the companion Commander decks released...

Commander Unstable Mutation: Draconic Rage (Dungeons & Dragons: Adventure in the Forgotten Realms)

With the imminent release of the new D&D: Forgotten Realms set, we're meeting in a grimy tavern for some ale and to review the set's new cards. In this article we'll examine one of the companion Commander decks released...

Mass Effect 3: The End, Finally, Again

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...