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.

Drox Operative 2 Released

After over a year of early access, Soldak Entertainment’s dynamic starship action-RPG Drox Operative 2 is now live on Steam and GOG, priced at $17.99 or your regional equivalent, including the 10% launch week discount. The game itself invites us…

Blade of Darkness and Its Dark Souls Parallels

Following the recent re-release of Rebel Act Studios’ cult-classic action-RPG Blade of Darkness, we get this Eurogamer article that examines the game as the progenitor of the popular these days Dark Souls formula. Now, the whole thing falls apart at…

Feargus Urquhart on Studio Acquisitions

Obsidian Entertainment’s CEO Feargus Urquhart recently took part in the GI Live: London event organized by GamesIndustry.biz, talking mainly about his experiences with publishers and what it’s like to be acquired by some big corporate entity. This resulted in a…

Expeditions: Rome Developer Diary – Crafting

I’m not really sure how it happened, but these days it seems to be impossible to ship an RPG without at least some form of crafting tacked on. And as a result, we can now check out this developer diary…

Elden Ring Delayed, Closed Network Test Announced

Elden Ring, FromSoftware’s next step in the evolution of the Dark Souls formula, was supposed to be going live on January 21, 2022. However, due to the game’s grand scope, that release date had to be pushed back a month…

Monomyth Update – Funding, Progress, and Level Design

Rat Tower Software’s Ultima Underworld-inspired dungeon-crawling RPG Monomyth was successfully crowdfunded earlier this year. And now, we get this Kickstarter update that briefly mentions the game’s final funding numbers before taking a close look at the intricacies of non-linear level…