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.

Expeditions: Rome Developer Diary – Voice-overs

Whether you like it or not, voice-acting is becoming more and more ubiquitous in video games, even those without a triple-A budget. Logic Artists’ upcoming historical RPG Expeditions: Rome is no exception, and will be fully voice-acted. As a result,…

Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 Updates

Last week’s early access update for Kerberos Productions’ Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2 laid some groundwork for this week’s update that improves the game’s monster manager system, resulting in more clever and devious enemies. The update also introduces…

Path of Exile – December Events 2021

During this holiday season, you’ll be able to participate in six limited-time Path of Exile events, and by doing so win a whole bunch of cosmetic prizes. You can find a detailed event schedule over here, but first, here’s a…

Anachronox Retrospective

Anachronox, Ion Storm’s attempt at creating a Western JRPG and a bit of a cult classic these days, is positioned as the main focus of this Vice retrospective. However, the article really is more about the Dallas branch of Ion…

Dauntless Coming to Next-gen Consoles

Phoenix Labs will be bringing their Monster Hunter-inspired free to play action-RPG Dauntless to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on December 2, 2021. The next-gen version is going to feature enhanced visuals, faster loading times, a bunch of new…

Monomyth Update – Current Progress and Level Design

This month’s Kickstarter update for Rat Tower Software’s Ultima Underworld-inspired dungeon-crawling RPG Monomyth brings us up to speed with the game’s progress before picking up where the previous update left off and sharing a bunch of info on Rat Tower’s…

Hellgate: London – London 2038 Development Update #18

This new development update for Hellgate: London’s London 2038 multiplayer mod lets us know what the team is currently working on (balance tweaks and new content), what they plan on working on in the future (in-game events and two expansions),…