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.

Encased – Story and Gameplay Trailers

Dark Crystal Games’ Fallout-inspired RPG Encased, now published under Koch Media’s new Prime Matter label, should be leaving early access later this year. And to remind us of this fact, the game’s developers, and their new publishers, have put together…

The Ascent Gameplay Footage

As part of IGN’s Summer of Gaming 2021 initiative, we can now watch roughly 12 minutes of developer-narrated gameplay for Neon Giant’s upcoming cyberpunk action-RPG The Ascent. If you wouldn’t mind seeing some actual gameplay with minimal edits, you should…

Dungeons & Dragons Online Interview

Rob Ciccolini, Standing Stone Games’ studio head for Dungeons & Dragons Online recently sat down with VentureBeat to talk about DDO, its history and place in the greater Dungeons & Dragons landscape, as well as the game’s unique systems and…

Dark Envoy Interview

Krzysztof Monkiewicz, the founder of Event Horizon, recently had a chat with The Escapist Magazine that focused on his studio’s upcoming “sci-fantasy” RPG Dark Envoy. If you’d like to learn more about that game’s setting, story, and systems, you should…

Path of Exile 3.15 Expansion Timeline

Grinding Gear Games will be revealing their next Path of Exile expansion later this month. The current plan is to release this challenge league expansion in mid-July, with the actual reveal happening during a customary at this point Twitch livestream.…