Games Industry News Roundup- September 17th, 2024

Here at Goonhammer, we know that it’s hard to keep track of all the news happening all the time in the games industry. So much is always going on with games of all sorts, and their related media, it can be a real blink-and-you’ll miss it situation.  That's why every week, we round up five of the biggest stories in the gaming sphere from the past week in the Games Industry News Roundup. Our trusty news boy, Dan “Swiftblade” Richardson,...

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Warhammer 40K

White Dwarf #504: Kroot Crusade Rules Review

Continuing a welcome recent trend of publishing new Crusade rules in White Dwarf, this month's White Dwarf #504 has rules for running Kroot armies in Crusade, adding new campaign rules, agendas, traits, and artefacts for the mercenary warbands. But are they any good? In this article we're taking a deep dive into the rules to find out.

Age of Sigmar

SRM’s Ongoing Stormbringer Review: Week 41

Stormbringer is a weekly hobby magazine from Hachette Partworks introducing players to Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. In this 80-week series, our intrepid magazine-receiver will be reviewing each individual issue, its included models, and gaming materials. A Premium US subscription was provided to Goonhammer for review purposes. If you want to follow along at home, US Customers can check out Stormbringer here. If you read this article the day it drops, then understand that I am soon to be bodied in the High Desert Hammerfall AoS GT. Will I have played...

Columns

Magic: the Gathering Duskmourn Review, Part 1 of 4: The Mechanics

Magic's newest expansion takes us to the newly introduced plane of Duskmourn, a plane comprised entirely of a living haunted mansion that thrives on the fear of its denizens. A new set means new mechanics, and we've got some good ones. In this article we'll talk about the mechanics and offer some thoughts on what they mean for Commander and other formats and how they'll play. Duskmourn will release to Magic the Gathering Online on September 24, 2024, and to the tabletop on September 27.   Rooms Rooms are a new enchantment subtype that function somewhat similarly to existing split cards. Each half...

Magic the Gathering

Hobby

White Dwarf #504: Kroot Crusade Rules Review

Continuing a welcome recent trend of publishing new Crusade rules in White Dwarf, this month's White Dwarf #504 has rules for running Kroot armies in Crusade, adding new campaign rules, agendas, traits, and artefacts for the mercenary warbands. But are they any good? In this article we're taking a deep dive into the rules to find out.

Tournament Report: Clash of Kings 2024 – The Varangur Bus is Coming

Stephanie Bee walks us through a strong showing at this year's Clash of Kings event in Nottingham.

Gaming