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.

Bloodborne – Fresh Impressions in 2023

Bloodborne, FromSoftware’s more Lovecraftian take on their Dark Souls formula, remains fairly elusive to this day on account of it being exclusive to the PlayStation family of consoles. And whether you yourself have missed the game during its initial launch…

Dungeons & Dragons – Upcoming OGL Changes Explained

A few weeks back, we learned about some upcoming changes to Dungeons & Dragons’ Open Game License that were poised to make it significantly more restrictive, especially when it comes to the video game side of things. Following that announcement,…

Torchlight: Infinite – Blacksail Season Preview

Torchlight: Infinite, XD Games’ mobile-focused revival of Runic Games’ lighthearted action-RPG series, launched into early access a few months back with some help from David Brevik. Which probably explains why the game is available on Steam as well as mobile…

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Patch v1.0.3 Available

TaleWorlds Entertainment’s sandbox RPG Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord has now received its third patch since leaving early access a few months back. This particular one deals with a number of crashes, fixes a memory leak, and adjusts the way…

Wyrdsong – Eric Fenstermaker Joins the Team

Last year’s Gamescom brought our attention to Wyrdsong, an upcoming open world RPG developed by Something Wicked Games. The project was especially notable due to the fact that the studio was said to be staffed by a bunch of developers…

Pentiment – Josh Sawyer Talks Murder Mysteries

A string of grisly murders is at the forefront of Obsidian Entertainment’s recently-released narrative adventure Pentiment. However, while you can eventually learn who was behind this plot, the individual murderers are never identified beyond the shadow of a doubt. As…

Upcoming Strategy RPGs

Expanding the definition of a Strategy RPG from a JRPG with a combat system that goes beyond just pressing A for 40 hours to also include tactical RPGs but with some extra management systems, and strategy games with RPG elements,…