video games

Rogue Trader Alpha: Goonhammer’s First Impressions

Last week, Owlcat Games made a closed Alpha build playable for their upcoming Warhammer 40,000 cRPG, Rogue Trader. Rogue Trader is based loosely off of the tabletop RPG of the same name set in the 40k universe, focusing on...

Darktide: The Goonhammer Review

Up and at ‘em Reject. Do you wanna live forever?After a few teasing delays, Darktide has been unleashed and is available to the public after two very exciting beta periods, and I couldn't be happier. If you've never heard of...

Roman-like: A Review of We Who Are About to Die

There are a few things someone needs to know about me to get my interest: If it involves Rome, or is a Roguelike, I will pay attention to you, like a cat hearing a can opener. So when Rob...

Gotham Knights Review: The Kids Are Alright; The Game Design Is Not

What’s a Batman game without Batman? I’ve been stewing over various formulations of that for some ten years. I got into Batman comics in the Nineties; I didn’t hide from all the dumb stuff that they did there. I embraced...

Darktide Closed Beta: Goonhammer’s First Impressions

After a long week trapped in an industrial labyrinth, fighting off corruption and hordes of heretics, we were finally able to escape the Goonhammer Corporate Offices and spend the weekend playing the closed beta of Darktide - here are our hot takes!

Immortality – An FMV Contender for Game of the Year

This article will contain spoilers, general and specific, for Immortality. There will be another spoiler warning when specific story discussion begins. Immortality is pretty close to being my game of the year. And I was pretty sure that selection was...

Spider-Man Remastered: The Goonhammer Review

Spider-Man is a great game when you focus on its core conceit and core promise: That you get to play as Peter Parker, Spider-Man, and webswing through a full, if not one-to-one recreation of the island of Manhattan and...

In Retrospect: In Retrospect: A Retrospective

“Are you prepared to travel back into your memories and tell me about your life, in retrospect? Craft your own story and gameplay based on which collectibles you focus on! Health, wealth, love, education, creativity, or spirituality? What direction...

Stoneshard: A Not-Quite D&D Fourth Edition Game You Should Check Out

The worst thing about Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition is that we didn’t get a video game out of it. There were a lot of reasons for that -- much of it was timing, some of it was plain...

You Should Play Knights of the Old Republic II. Just Maybe Not On This Device

It’s a good game, but I can’t recommend you buy it. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is on the Nintendo Switch, thanks to a port from Aspyr! This game was originally released in December...