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.

Weird West Released

Back in 2017, Arkane Studios’ founder Raphael Colantonio left his company in order to focus on smaller-scale projects as part of WolfEye Studios. Several years later, Weird West – this new team’s first game – is now live, priced at…

Expeditions: Rome Patch v1.3 Available

The latest patch for Logic Artists’ historical RPG Expeditions: Rome fixes several bugs, introduces a few balance adjustments, and adds some very much welcome quality of life improvements aimed at making outpost management more convenient. The patch also revamps the…

System Shock Remastered Edition Preview

While we still don’t have a release date for Nightdive Studios’ System Shock remaster, for a while now, all signs have been pointing to an imminent release. And so, it’s no surprise that we now get this PC Gamer preview…

Starfield – Meet Emil Pagliarulo

Emil Pagliarulo, a Looking Glass and Bethesda Game Studios veteran, is the lead designer and writer on Bethesda’s upcoming sci-fi RPG Starfield. And if you’d like to know more about his impressive career, inspirations, and ideas for Starfield, you should…

Master of Magic Remake – March 2022 Developer Diary

MuHa Games is getting ready to launch their Master of Magic remake into beta, and as a result, the project’s latest development update invites us to sign up for some recreational beta testing. With that out of the way, we…

Dungeons & Dragons Gold Box Games Now Live on Steam

The Gold Box Classics bundle, originally scheduled for a March 25, 2022 release, is now available on Steam. The bundle consists of several “collections,” each featuring a number of highly-acclaimed Gold Box RPGs, including the Eye of the Beholder trilogy,…

Diablo IV Quarterly Update – March 2022

This year’s first quarterly update for Diablo IV is dedicated to the various facets of the game’s environment design, be it art direction, open world design, or dungeon design (of which the game will have over 150). Due to the…

Weird West – Road to Weird West, Episode 5

With Weird West scheduled to go live on March 31, 2022, we get the fifth and final episode of the Road to Weird West video series used to showcase some of the game’s features and systems. This time around, WolfEye…

Fallout 76 – Double Eleven Working on New Content

Double Eleven, a support studio that can boast quite a diverse portfolio of projects, will apparently be working on some fresh content and challenges for Bethesda’s online survival RPG Fallout 76. The first batch of this new content should be…

Stoneshard Update – The Current State of Affairs

Seeing how Ink Stains Games, the studio behind Stoneshard, has members from both Ukraine and Russia, the ongoing hostilities between the two countries have resulted in a series of unexpected challenges for the developers. These are outlined in this here…