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.

Guild Wars 2 – See You in 2022!

The end of year update for ArenaNet’s MMORPG Guild Wars 2 shares a thank you message from the team, highlights some upcoming in-game events, and gets us all ready for the End of Dragons expansion scheduled to go live next…

Neverwinter and Star Trek Online – Players and Numbers

Embracer Group AB, a Swedish video game holding company, recently purchased the North American branch of Perfect World Entertainment. The buyout was accompanied by various investor presentations, and as a result, thanks to this MassivelyOP article that sifted through that…

Horizon Forbidden West – Slitherfang Introduction

Slitherfang, a robotic snake creature, will act as one of the bosses in Guerrilla Games’ upcoming open world RPG Horizon Forbidden West. And if you’d like to know what it’s all about, you should check out this Game Informer article.…

Wildermyth – PC Gamer’s RPG of 2021

With Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Solasta: Crown of the Magister, and ATOM RPG: Trudograd, among others, this was a great year for RPGs. But, according to PC Gamer, it’s the narrative roguelike Wildermyth that deserves the title of the…

Hellgate: London – London 2038 Development Update #20

Instead of a new patch and a Christmas event, we get this here development update for Hellgate: London’s London 2038 mod that apologizes for the delay, and then talks about the team’s plans for weekly in-game events. There’s even a…

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen December 2021 Newsletter

This year’s final newsletter for Visionary Realms’ MMORPG Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen brings us a Producer’s Letter, a Month in Review article, and a community spotlight. And to start things off, here’s the intro: Happy holidays to everyone! Before…

Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning – Fatesworn Reviews

A couple weeks back, THQ Nordic released the Fatesworn expansion for Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning. And if you’d like to know how this new bit of content fits in with the rest of the game, considering it originally launched about…

Heroes of Might and Magic – The Digital Antiquarian

The previous entry of The Digital Antiquarian blog introduced us to the early installments of Jon Van Caneghem’s Might and Magic series. And with that out of the way, we now get this one that talks about the first Heroes of…

ELEX II Interview

Piranha Bytes’ creative director Björn Pankratz and game designer Jennifer Pankratz recently took part in this Twinfinite interview that was all about their team’s upcoming sci-fi RPG ELEX II. If you’d like to know more about the game’s unique aesthetic,…