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.

New World – January 2022 Updates

Amazon Game Studios has put together a new content update for their highly successful MMORPG New World. You can find the complete patch notes over here, but the main attraction there are the so-called Mutators that augment some of the…

Star Trek Online – Shadow’s Advance Update Now Live

Shadow’s Advance, the latest content update for Cryptic Studios and Perfect World Entertainment’s free to play MMO Star Trek Online, is now live on PC. Apart from adding some fresh content and kicking off the game’s twelfth anniversary event, this…

Dying Light 2: Stay Human – City Art and Roadmap

With Dying Light 2: Stay Human launching in about a week, we get a video interview with the game’s environment art director Katarzyna Tarnacka, where she tells us how her team went about making the game’s main city feel alive.…

Expeditions: Rome Accolades Trailer and Patch

THQ Nordic and Logic Artists released Expeditions: Rome last week to some fairly warm reception. And as a result, we can now check out the official accolades trailer for Rome that highlights some of the praise the game’s been getting.…

Horizon Forbidden West Hands-on Preview

While at this point it’s unclear when and if Horizon Forbidden West will be coming to PC, with the game’s PlayStation release scheduled for February 18, 2022, we can now check out IGN’s hands-on preview of Guerrilla Games’ action-RPG while…

The Waylanders Gameplay Preview

Barring any last-minute delays, Gato Studio’s time-travel RPG The Waylanders should be leaving early access on February 2, 2022. And with that date now just a week away, IGN brings us 20 minutes of fresh gameplay from a section of…

Wildermyth – The Sunswallower’s Wake Update Available

Worldwalker Games launched their party-based procedural storytelling RPG Wildermyth out of early access last year. The game apparently ended up fairly successful, and as a result, its latest update, apart from fixing some miscellaneous issues, adds a new three-chapter campaign.…

Weird West – Road to Weird West, Episode 3

Now that WolfEye Studios’ immersive sim Weird West has been delayed to March 31, 2022, we get a chance to watch another “Road to Weird West” video where the studio’s creative director Raphael Colantonio walks us through some of the…