reviews

Miniature Review: Vikings by Victrix Miniatures

This week in the Goonhammer Historicals series, we continue our focus on the Viking Era with a look at Victrix Limited's offering of plastic Vikings in 28mm scale. Disclaimer: I paid for these minis with my own money, and Victrix...

Ys VIII: The Lacrimosa of Dana — Pure JRPG Comfort Food

Some games are just comfort food; for me, those are JRPGs. “JRPG” actually used to be something of a real genre with real rules for awhile there, not because the Japanese developers of roleplaying games only made one kind of...

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order — EA’s One Good Star Wars Game Every Eight Years

Star Wars isn’t quite in a golden age -- increasingly, it seems to be in anything but that -- but we’ve still gotten a couple of gems out of it. Almost none of them, however, have been video games. This...

Necromunday: White Dwarf 459 Review – Going Out With A Bang

Welcome back, Scummers, to another edition of Necromunday! This week, we’re taking a look at the brand-new end-of-campaign scenarios you can find in White Dwarf 459. Every good campaign deserves a worthy send-off, and it's worth planning for how...

White Dwarf 459 Review: The Argovon Campaign, Phase 3

Between the Core Rules and Beyond the Veil, there are plenty of missions for your Crusade campaign to play through. But what if you wanted something different? The Argovon Campaign is the first of Games Workshop’s new Flashpoints, which...

Cyberpunk 2077: Is This All the Future Holds?

  No game should ever have this amount of hype; all games of sufficient budget are incentivized to have this amount of hype. Somewhere along the line our industry incentives got very messed up, but we don’t have time this...

The Goonhammer Review: Warhammer 40,000 – The App, Six Months On

Back in July, Warhammer 40,000: The App was released. Our first review of it was scathing - it flatly just did not work. With six months of development time and yesterday's launch of the long-awaited Battle Forge feature, we're...

Mass Effect: Andromeda Retrospective — The Flawed Masterpiece That Wasn’t

It wasn’t supposed to end like this. Mass Effect: Andromeda was the fourth and, at least for the time being, final entry in the Mass Effect series of games from Bioware. You might have seen them in the news lately;...

Crusade Focus: Codex Supplement: Blood Angels

Welcome back, Narrative Players! Codex Supplement: Blood Angels is releasing this weekend and if you happened to read our review of the rules last week, you’d have noticed that we teased an upcoming Crusade Rules review - we’ll be...

Necromunday: White Dwarf 458 Review – Outlaw Brutes

Welcome back, Scummers, to another edition of Necromunday! This week, we’re taking a look at the brand new Outlaw Brutes you can find in White Dwarf 458. There are some really cool and flavorful aspects to these heavyweights, so...