video games

Goonhammer Roundtable: 2023 Is the Year of the Horror Game Remake

As Halloween approaches and we looked back on the horror games of 2023 we were struck by how this year in particular produced an unprecedented slate of very successful big-budget remakes for beloved horror franchises. Between Resident Evil’s RE4...

Goonhammer Review: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Video Game

I just can't take no pleasure in killing. There's just some things you gotta do. Don't mean you have to like it. - The Cook Michael: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - considered by many to be the best /...

El Paso, Elsewhere: The Goonhammer Review

Two years ago I was introduced to El Paso, Elsewhere when developer Strange Scaffold dropped their reveal trailer that depicted a game clearly inspired by Remedy Entertainment’s Max Payne. The player character, clad in a brown overcoat leapt and...

September 2023 Indie Games Round-Up

Every month we take a look at some of the various indie games out there, play them, and talk about the ones we liked. In case you missed last month’s Indie Games round-up, you can find it here. While we didn't...

Final Fantasy XVI: The Goonhammer Review

This review contains endgame spoilers for Final Fantasy XVI. I had to sit with this one a little bit. I could have started writing this review some time back in July, because I didn’t get it early and I was really...

Everything Revealed at the 9/14 Nintendo Direct

Nintendo Directs are always one of the most interesting things to come from the post games conference world: sometimes, they’re packed with huge surprise reveals and news, and in other cases, it feels like nothing actually got said. The...

Armored Core 6: The Goonhammer Review

After eleven years, From Software have blessed us with another entry into the Armored Core series, and it fucking rocks. Any worry that over a decade of producing games with the Souls formulae has dulled From Software's edge when...

Gamescom Day 1: Everything Announced

Well it's about that time of year again as we get deep into the dog days of summer at least we have a whole heap of trailers and announcements to help us beat the heat. We already covered everything...

Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin Campaign Impressions

The fine folks over at Frontier Developments invited us to play the upcoming Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin in a remote hands-on event. This was handled via the remote-play app Parsec, and involved 2 missions of the...

Goonhammer’s Top Ten Games From the GMTK Game Jam 2023

Game Jams are an interesting and exciting look into how creative people can be with limited time and tools at their disposal. One of the things that makes jams even more exciting for those who aren’t participating in creation...