Jonathan Bernhardt

Mass Effect is the game that should have saved the CRPG, in all honesty. It didn’t, but that wasn’t its fault. Originally released in 2007, the first entry into the iconic and now semi-defunct hybrid shooter/CRPG series was much, much...

At some point you have to sit down and have a conversation about the brand, and just who is allowed to futz with it. Today’s game is Warhammer 40K: Dakka Squadron - Flyboyz Edition, which is the PC release of...

Warning: This review contains mild, non-ending plot spoilers.   Yoko Taro’s victory lap continues, strangely, with the game where the ascendant visionary phase of his career began. NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…, stylized hereafter as Nier for obvious reasons, began life as a third...

Generally speaking we try not to review games before they release too often on this site -- we’ve broken the rule before, usually for games deep into Early Access, and we’re going to be breaking it again for Magic:...

The game begins with the universe being destroyed, and then you move forward from there, on a loop. Loop Hero is not really an idle game, as it’s been somewhat curiously -- and a bit frustratingly -- tagged. You will...

We cover a lot of ARPGs here on this site -- probably our third-most commonly reviewed genre of game on Goonhammer after Warhammer 40K titles and third-person open world character action games, which makes sense, because this is a...

Apologies to Ernie Kovacs for stealing his joke, but our subject this week didn't deserve a new one. There are good games, there are bad games, and then there are games like The Medium. Up until now, I’ve had the...

Last week, we discussed the first two games of the current Hitman trilogy in broad strokes. This week, we’ll be reviewing Hitman 3, which was released January 20th. This article will contain mild story and level spoilers for Hitman...

There are games series with a longer record of service than the Hitman franchise, and there are games series that have been more consistent with what they deliver than the Hitman franchise, but there aren’t too many of them,...

Some games are just comfort food; for me, those are JRPGs. “JRPG” actually used to be something of a real genre with real rules for awhile there, not because the Japanese developers of roleplaying games only made one kind of...