video games

Video Game Review: Warhammer 40,000 Gladius – Relics of War (T’au Expansion)

We discussed in broad terms the merits and shortcomings of Warhammer 40K Gladius last week; this week we’ll talk specifically about the T’au expansion, as well as what a game of this 4X roughly looks like. We’ll be starting with...

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

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...

Video Game Review: Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem

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...

Video Game Review: FTL

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...

Video Game Review: Blasphemous

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...

Video Game Review: Hades

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...

Game Review: Warhammer 40k Combat Cards

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...

Video Game Retrospective: Dawn of War 2: Retribution

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...

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

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...

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

  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...