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 – Joining Koch Media

Dark Crystal Games, the team behind the Fallout-inspired RPG Encased, seems to have joined forces with Koch Media, with the latter now serving as the game’s publisher. As a result, come full release, Encased will be fully voice-acted, and get…

Fallout 76 – Year Two in Review

Following a pretty shaky launch, Bethesda’s multiplayer survival-RPG Fallout 76 seems to be doing much better in its second year. It can now boast a couple of expansions, a seasonal progression system, and a number of new features, all coming…

Diablo: Immortal Enters Technical Alpha

Blizzard Entertainment’s mobile action-RPG Diablo: Immortal has entered technical alpha. As a result, a select number of Australian players will soon be getting access to the game’s early areas. And beyond that, we can now check out a series of…

Wasteland 3 – Patch v1.2.0 Live

The so-called “Meat Maker Marinade” patch for inXile Entertainment’s post-apocalyptic RPG Wasteland 3 is here, offering a plethora of gameplay and balance improvements. As a result, you will now need more experience to level up, and critical hits won’t be…

Torchlight III – Snow & Steam Update Available

The winter-themed Snow & Steam content update for Torchlight III is now live. It reworks the Forged class, updates the first story act and improves the end-game Fazeer’s Dun’djinn, while also introducing a good deal of new items, pets and…

StarCrawlers: Chimera Announced

Back in 2017, Juggernaut Games released StarCrawlers – a tile-based cyberpunk dungeon crawler that combined story missions with a bunch of procedurally-generated content. And now, they’re looking to follow it up with StarCrawlers: Chimera – a fully procedural experience that…

GOG Winter Sale Now Live

GOG’s annual Winter Sale is now live, offering great deals across the board, a number of specialized bundles, and a free copy of Prison Architect to those who sign up for a marketing newsletter. If you’re looking to expand your…

Divinity: Original Sin – The Board Game Update #24

Following a recent playtest, we get a new Kickstarter update for Divinity: Original Sin – The Board Game that presents us with some stats and explains how those stats will affect the game’s design going forward. In short, the developers…