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Video Game Review: Warhammer 40,000 Gladius – Relics of War

Jonathan Bernhardt - March 6, 2020

Many developers have attempted to capture the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium (and the high fantasy of the Old World) in video game form. With the release of its Tau expansion, we thought it would be good to...

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Video Game Review: Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem

Jonathan Bernhardt - February 21, 2020

Anyone who has played Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem for any length of time since its launch last week has a story. Mine came rather late into the play experience, relatively speaking; I’d heard beforehand the tales of how poorly the...

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Video Game Review: FTL

Jonathan Bernhardt - February 6, 2020

In a very fundamental way, FTL is a game about doors. Let’s back up. FTL: Faster Than Light is not a new game; unlike with Hades or Slay the Spire, we’re not reviewing it here in an effort to help...

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Video Game Review: Blasphemous

Jonathan Bernhardt - January 21, 2020

Dark Souls is probably the single most important video game of the last decade, and it’s not particularly close. We can wander into the weeds -- FromSoftware’s Demon Souls was a close predecessor to the game, and was the...

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Video Game Review: Hades

Jonathan Bernhardt - January 14, 2020

We’re starting something new here on Goonhammer; most obviously, it’s something that’s not going to have anything (directly) to do with Warhammer 40K at all. We’ve sort of run out of 40K video game titles to cover at the...

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Game Review: Warhammer 40k Combat Cards

Jonathan Bernhardt - November 5, 2019

As you always knew it was destined to, Warhammer 40K has gone free-to-play, just like every other IP out there. And I’ve run out of full-platform titles to review for the moment -- at least ones that don’t require...

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Video Game Retrospective: Dawn of War 2: Retribution

Jonathan Bernhardt - September 24, 2019

It’s been a while! Now that NOVA’s over we’re back in the saddle with the Dawn of War II retrospective for the second, final, and most important expansion, Retribution. This is pretty much the final form of the Dawn...

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Video Game Retrospective: Dawn of War II and Chaos Rising (2009 to 2010)

Jonathan Bernhardt - August 27, 2019

So we arrive at Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II. This is probably the defining modern Warhammer 40K game, rivaled only by its predecessor and Warhammer 40K: Space Marine; to the degree that it can be said that a...

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Video Game Retrospective: Dawn of War Expansions (2005 to 2008)

Jonathan Bernhardt - August 20, 2019

Last week we covered the base Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War game, which made a massive impression on the RTS genre in the early Aughts and inspired three expansion games from 2005 to 2008. This week we’ll actually talk...

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Video Game Retrospective: Dawn of War (2004)

Jonathan Bernhardt - August 13, 2019

This is where it all began: the original Dawn of War. Okay, technically it began with Warhammer 40K: Fire Warrior, but Fire Warrior, a first-person shooter where you played as a T’au commando, was a weird game whose reach...