Val Hull

Val Hull

Resident role-playing RPG game expert. Knows where trolls and paladins come from. You must fight for your right to gather your party before venturing forth.

Josh Sawyer Talks CRPG Armor Systems

Say what you will about Josh Sawyer, but the man has a lot of experience when it comes to trying to come up with a satisfying CRPG armor system. So, if you’d like to hear him talk about how armor…

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters Update V Live

The latest patch for Complex Games’ Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters deals with a good number of performance issues, fixes a nasty Manufactorum-related bug, and introduces a whole heap of balance adjustments. Here are the complete patch notes:

GWENT: The Witcher Card Game Retrospective

GWENT: The Witcher Card Game started its journey as a humble minigame in The Witcher 3. But these days, it’s a standalone CCG with its own spin-offs. And if you’d like to know how we got to this point, you…

MythForce – Trent Oster Interview

Trent Oster, who you may know as one of the founders of BioWare and the current CEO of Beamdog, recently participated in an in-house interview promoting Beamdog’s new roguelite adventure MythFroce. As a result, we can learn a thing or…

Average RPGs with Great Endings

If you wouldn’t mind going down a list of RPGs that, according to the list’s author, weren’t all that great but managed to deliver a satisfying ending, then you should check out this article from The Gamer. Here’s something to…

Mechajammer – Matt Chat

Serpent in the Staglands, Whalenought Studios’ previous project, showed plenty of promise when it launched back in 2015. But when Mechajammer, the team’s latest, dropped and started getting mixed reviews, I would imagine at least some of us decided to…

Stoneshard – Current Progress

Ink Stains Games brings us this progress update for their turn-based RPG Stoneshard where they outline some new features coming to the game with its next big early access update. By the looks of it, we should expect some new…

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen May 2022 Newsletter

This month’s newsletter for Visionary Realms’ upcoming party-focused MMORPG Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is all about Monks. Well, it’s not actually all about Monks. It also has the customary Producer’s Letter, Month in Review, and Community Spotlight sections. But…