video games

Wow, that Escalated Quickly: Goonhammer Reviews Kingdom Hearts

Welcome back to GOONHAMMER '02, our week-long look back at 2002 and the games and media that defined the year. Today we're looking back at Kingdom Hearts, one of the more interesting franchise-spawning titles that year. The Chirurgeon: Let me...

Goonhammer Reviews: Warcraft III

Welcome back to GOONHAMMER '02, where we look back at the games and media that we loved 20 years ago. Today Thanqol is talking about Warcraft III, which released in 2002 and would go on to change the face...

Total War Warhammer 3: The Goonhammer Review

For those of you who have been following my articles on this game series - in particular my first impressions article - you know that I'm very excited about this release. Creative Assembly bringing the Warhammer universe to life...

Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters First Impressions

The fine folks over at Frontier and Complex Games invited us in for a special sneak peek at their new game, the mouthful of a title that is Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters. These first impressions are based on...

First Impressions of Total War: Warhammer III

Platform: PC | Release Date: February 17, 2022 As a massive fan of the Total War series (something I pointed out in my review of the first two Total War: Warhammer games), I was incredibly excited when Creative Assembly asked...

The Official Goonhammer Video Game Of The Year

Welcome, dear gamer, to Goonhammer’s inaugural Game Of The Year, or GHGOTY, if you will. This year has been, shall we say, less than jam packed with new releases and blockbuster hits, but we’ve nonetheless spent hundreds of hours...

Darkest Dungeon II Early Access Launch: A New Game That Hates You

It’s time, once again, to play a game that hates you, and takes pride in hating you. Darkest Dungeon II is in Early Access now (on the Epic Game Store for a year before wider release, so on and...

Goonhammer’s Favorite Horror Games

We love Halloween. From the general sense of dread to the costumes and the fun of horror games and entertainment, we’re big fans of the spooky season. So with Halloween fast approaching, we at the Goonhammer offices figured we’d...

Psychonauts 2 Is the Best Video Game of 2021, and 2006

There is still technically time for this to change, but at this point in the year -- lurching into October, with much of the release schedule for the rest of 2021 dead in the water -- I think Psychonauts...

Metroid Dread: The Goonhammer Review

I've been a Metroid fan since the early days, having Justin Bailey'd my way through the NES adventure and spent time in the deserted labyrinths of SR-388 hunting metroids on a Gameboy long before the series' most beloved instalment...