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.

Demon’s Souls Remake Trailers

PlayStation 5 will be launching on November 12, 2020 in North America and Oceania, before launching in the rest of the world on November 19th. And with Bluepoint Games’ Demon’s Souls Remake positioned as a PS5 launch title, this is…

Chad Moore Interview

“An Unfortunate Affair a story by Sir Chadwick Moore,” reads one of Arcanum’s loading screens presented as a magazine cover. For years, I treated it as such – a mere loading screen. However, during a recent replay of Arcanum, that…

Opening the Gold Box, Part 7: Back to the Roots

What looks to be the final part of The Digital Antiquarian’s “Opening the Gold Box” series of posts takes a close look at the twilight years of both SSI, the team behind the Gold Box games, and TSR, the original…

Mass Effect Legendary Edition Announced

For a while now, we’ve been hearing rumors of a potential Mass Effect remaster. And according to this developer blog post from BioWare’s GM Casey Hudson, those rumors weren’t at all baseless. Come Spring 2021, we’ll be getting Mass Effect…

King’s Bounty II Previews

1C Entertainment’s King’s Bounty II will be taking the long-running series in a new, more cinematic and realistic-looking direction. And if you’d like to learn how this latest attempt at revitalizing the venerable franchise is shaping up, you may want…

Phoenix Point: Year One Edition Gets a New Release Date

Snapshot Games was originally intending to release the definitive Year One Edition of Phoenix Point on December 10, 2020. However, in what is decidedly an unexpected move, Year One Edition’s launch was pushed forward by a week, so now it…

XCOM 2 Collection Released for iOS

Feral Interactive’s XCOM 2 Collection has made its way to Apple’s App Store. Priced at $24.99 or your regional equivalent, this port contains Firaxis Games’ XCOM 2: War of the Chosen and its four DLC packs with no additional in-app…