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.

Valheim – Jeff Vogel’s Design Deep Dive

After spending some time with Iron Gate’s Valheim, Jeff Vogel, the mastermind behind Spiderweb Software, brings us this meaty blog post where he analyzes the Viking-themed survival title from a game designer’s perspective and talks about what works and what…

King’s Bounty II Previews

Having recently been invited to pre-order 1C Entertainment’s turn-based RPG King’s Bounty II, we can now check out a couple of hands-off previews for this upcoming revival of the long-running RPG series. For the most part, they seem to be…

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition New Update Now Live

Having launched last month, the remastered Legendary Edition of the original Mass Effect trilogy has now been augmented with a number of quality-of-life improvements. These include decoupling subtitles from voice-acting, some achievement-related fixes, assorted performance and stability improvements, and more.…

New World – June Alpha Release Notes

With New World’s closed beta scheduled for July, the MMO’s developers still intend to release a couple of balance and polish-focused alpha updates in June. The first of those is already here, offering over 1,000 bug fixes along with various…

The Waylanders – Game Experience Update Available

Following several months of radio silence, Gato Salvaje Studio brings us a new early access update for their time-travel RPG The Waylanders. Apart from listing a bunch of newly added features and miscellaneous improvements, the update shares a new roadmap…

Shadoworlds Re-released

Shadoworlds, Krisalis Software and Teque London’s squad-based sci-fi action-RPG that was originally released all the way back in 1992, can now be purchased on Steam and GOG for $4.68 or your regional equivalent, including the 33% launch week discount. The…

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands – Prepare for Lift Off

The upcoming Chains of Domination content update for World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands expansion will, among other things, allow you to use your flying mounts within the new Shadowlands areas. As such, we now have this quick guide outlining the steps…