video games

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...

Video Game Review: Three Kinds of Factories

This is a triple threat review of Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, and Satisfactory.   Factorio Factorio burst onto the scene in 2016 with an innovative take on the management sim genre that was so well received it has since inspired two successors,...

Warhammer 40K Battlesector: The New Best WH40K Licensed Game?

This is almost what Warhammer 40K licensed products should all be. That’s not prescriptively true, of course; far from it. The Warhammer 40K universe is big enough to fit in all kinds of titles, from third-person character action games to...

Mass Effect 3: The End, Finally, Again

And farewell to all that MEss.  I’ve now spent some combined 200 hours playing Mass Effect games over the past few months (with a couple rounds of technical difficulties unrelated to the games themselves near the end), so it’s perhaps...

Mass Effect 2 Legendary Edition: The Dirty Dozen, for the Dozenth Time

I’ve now completed Mass Effect 2 for either the seventh or the eighth time, and I have some thoughts on the matter. First, the occasion: we’re going through all three of the original Mass Effect games in their remastered form,...