video games

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...

Paramount+’s Halo is Sci-Fi Done Right

This article contains direct spoilers for the first season of Halo.   What are we talking about, when we talk about Halo from Paramount+? I think it’s important to make clear first and foremost that we’re talking about a serialized television show....

King Arthur: Knight’s Tale Review

The short version of the review is: It’s good. It’s medieval XCOM that doesn’t fuck it up. For a lot of you, that’ll be all the recommendation you need. What I’m interested in discussing here is ambition. In 2009, Hungarian studio...

Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters Hands-On Impressions

Following up on our previous coverage, the fine folks over at Frontier and Complex Games invited us to play Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters in a remote hands-on event. This was handled via the remote-play app Parsec. Minor spoilers below. After attending...

Gunum Game Review: Escape Velocity Nova

Welcome back to GOONHAMMER ’02, where we look back at the games and media that we loved 20 years ago. Today Gunum is talking about Escape Velocity Nova, which was released in 2002 and could be seen as one...