The Best Year in Gaming: 1978

Last year’s stacked lineup of games for the Game Awards had us thinking: What was the best year in gaming? As part of our series on determining gaming’s best year, we’re putting together an article on each year, charting the major releases and developments of the year, and talking...

Content Guides

Warhammer 40K

40K BADCAST – BONUS EPISODE: ADEPTICAST 2024

The Goonhammer group is made up of dozens of multi-talented authors, many of whom have other projects outside of the site. In addition to their work here, Dan Boyd and Campbell "SRM" McLaughlin have their own podcast, the 40K Badcast, a member of the Goonhammer Media Network.   Campbell and the Beef Thief are back, and this time ol’ Beefy went on a lil’ trip! Dan recaps Adepticon 2024 and Campbell lives vicariously. Make sure to wear ear protection for this one, gang, as the sonorous clacking of Dan’s many medals...

Age of Sigmar

Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: Adepticon Top 5

Hello again! This past weekend was the world famous Adepticon in Schaumberg, Illinois, one of the largest tabletop gaming conventions in the world. There were multiple Age of Sigmar events, including the Championship GT. This week we're trying something a little different with our format. The only major GT this weekend is and due to the format there are a ton of perfect scores and 4-1s. Since there were 170 entrants and no cutoff, we're going to focus on the 5 lists that got a perfect score instead. The Showdown The Mission...

Columns

Commander Focus: Hazezon Tamar – Fear Is the Mind-killer

This week with the recent Dune release, we're looking back at the game we love with a bit of a retro bent. In this week's Commander Focus, we're building around one of the Magic's original Legends, Hazezon Tamar. This article was originally published on this site in April 2021. There is a part of Magic that sleeps. It's a part from a long, long time ago. The first multi-colored creatures were amazing to see. The whole idea of gold cards - it was shocking. And cards like Jasmine Boreal weren't considered bad. In the early days of Magic cards like Lord...

Magic the Gathering

Hobby

How To Paint Everything: Ahsoka Tano, Star Wars Legion

On the heels of finally completing the Disney+ show Ahsoka (I know, I’m way behind) and my enjoyment of both Marvel Crisis Protocol and Star Wars: Shatterpoint, I wanted to dip my toes into Atomic Mass Games’s Star Wars Legion, and I knew the first model I had to paint for my burgeoning Rebel force had to be Ahsoka Tano (aka Fulcrim).  I knew it would be a challenge after painting the larger scale of MCP and Shatterpoint for several months, but I was very excited about the challenge. After assembly, I primed the model with a coat of Badger...

Gaming

40K BADCAST – BONUS EPISODE: ADEPTICAST 2024

The Goonhammer group is made up of dozens of multi-talented authors, many of whom have other projects outside of the site. In addition to their work here, Dan Boyd and Campbell "SRM" McLaughlin have their own podcast, the 40K Badcast, a member of the Goonhammer Media Network.   Campbell and the Beef Thief are back, and this time ol’ Beefy went on a lil’ trip! Dan recaps Adepticon 2024 and Campbell lives vicariously. Make sure to wear ear protection for this one, gang, as the sonorous clacking of Dan’s many medals might deafen you.    Download here https://twitter.com/DB_Sleazy https://twitter.com/BrotherSRM https://www.patreon.com/40kBadcast https://40kbadcast.bigcartel.com/ contact@40kbadcast.com