video games

The Last Epoch — An ARPG That Cares How Skilled You Are

We cover a lot of ARPGs here on this site -- probably our third-most commonly reviewed genre of game on Goonhammer after Warhammer 40K titles and third-person open world character action games, which makes sense, because this is a...

The Medium: Neither Rare Nor Well-Done

Apologies to Ernie Kovacs for stealing his joke, but our subject this week didn't deserve a new one. There are good games, there are bad games, and then there are games like The Medium. Up until now, I’ve had the...

Hitman and Hitman 2 — Soon to Be a Trilogy of Assassination

There are games series with a longer record of service than the Hitman franchise, and there are games series that have been more consistent with what they deliver than the Hitman franchise, but there aren’t too many of them,...

Lost Crusade: The Goonhammer Review

Games Workshop's history with video games is... up and down. Recently they've been farming out mobile games at a rapid rate and the results are as you would expect. Here, we take a look at their latest effort -...

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...

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...

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;...

Grim Dawn: You Should Have Already Been Playing This

Y’all like clicking? We’ve reviewed ARPGs before in this space -- please look here, then here, then very sternly here for previous escapades -- but we’ve never actually liked one without reservation before now. It felt like it was time...

Far Cry 2: The Last FPS to Truly, Appropriately Hate Its Player

For better or worse, Ubisoft Montreal has had its finger -- or whole hand? This metaphor is kind of gross -- in the pot for almost every important game that its parent company, the world-bestriding AAA game development titan...

In Amnesia: Rebirth, Horror Gets Its Head Checked Once Again

Amnesia: Rebirth isn’t a particularly scary game, but then, it doesn’t really seem to be trying to be. Rebirth comes to us courtesy of developer Frictional Games, responsible for Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Soma, two widely-renowned innovators in the...