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NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… : Once More, with Feeling

Warning: This review contains mild, non-ending plot spoilers.   Yoko Taro’s victory lap continues, strangely, with the game where the ascendant visionary phase of his career began. NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…, stylized hereafter as Nier for obvious reasons, began life as a third...

A Review of Magic: The Gathering’s Strixhaven Expansion, Part 4 of 4: Commander 2021

With the imminent release of the new Strixhaven set, B Phillip York and FromTheShire are evaluating the first years as they make their way into the academy. Note that as our typical coverage is focused on Commander, we'll be...

White Dwarf 463 Review – Flashpoints: Charadon Phase 4 Review (the Tri-Forge Cluster)

In the Narrative Forge, we talk about playing games with more of a storytelling focus in mind. From bespoke missions to Crusade armies to sweeping campaigns, we cover the ways to add flavor to games. This week we're reviewing...

A Review of Magic: The Gathering’s Strixhaven Expansion, Part 3 of 4: Multicolor and Colorless

With the imminent release of the new Strixhaven set, Phillip York and FromTheShire are evaluating the first years as they make their way into the academy. Note that as our typical coverage is focused on Commander, we'll be primarily...

A Review of Magic: The Gathering’s Strixhaven Expansion, Part 2 of 4: WUBRG

With the imminent release of the new Strixhaven set, B Phillip York and FromTheShire are evaluating the first years as they make their way into the academy. Note that as our typical coverage is focused on Commander, we'll be...

Paint Review: DarkStar Molten Metals

If you’ve ever painted any miniatures you’ve probably used some metallic paint. If you paint Chaos Space Marines or Titanicus titans then you probably spend more than half of your painting time doing metallic trim and you’ve probably googled...

Plague Purge: The Goonhammer Review

Although it wasn’t included in our preview materials a few weeks ago, we’ve finally gotten our hands on Plague Purge, the newest Crusade expansion for Warhammer 40,000. And in our quest to devour and review everything Narrative-related in 40k,...

Magic: Legends Review — Beta Luck Next Time

Generally speaking we try not to review games before they release too often on this site -- we’ve broken the rule before, usually for games deep into Early Access, and we’re going to be breaking it again for Magic:...

The Goonhammer Review of Codex: Chaos

This week we're taking a look back to 25 years ago and some of the key releases of 1996. Perhaps no release had a bigger impact on the future of Warhammer 40,000 than Codex: Chaos. While Rogue Trader's Realm of...

Codex Drukhari: The Crusade Rules Review

We spent most of the weekend reviewing the new Matched Play rules in Codex: Drukhari and talking about how the faction has been transformed in some very cool ways - check out that review here. Today we're back to...