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.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance – 1403 Quarantine Tips

Warhorse Studios, the team behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance, are no strangers to humorous trailers. Their latest attempt to find some humor in an otherwise unpleasant situation is a short video that uses some KC:D footage to share a number of…

Alaloth: Champions of the Four Kingdoms Official Gameplay Video

Gamera Interactive’s upcoming action-RPG Alaloth: Champions of the Four Kingdoms will combine traditional hack ‘n’ slash gameplay with a story that’s a bit more pronounced than usual for the genre and some writing from Chris Avellone. And since that description…

The Wayward Realms – OnceLost Games Video Q&A

The four directors of OnceLost Games, the team behind the upcoming old-school The Elder Scrolls-inspired RPG The Wayward Realms, answered a good deal of community questions about their project during a recent YouTube livestream that ran for nearly three hours.…

What Makes a Good RPG Dungeon?

Following some Oblivion-related frustration, Felipe Pepe of The CRPG Book fame wrote a lengthy article where he tries to figure out what makes an RPG dungeon good and fun to explore. In the process, he provides numerous examples of standout…

Vaporum: Lockdown Supreme Puzzles Floor Preview

Personally, I don’t really see a point in a dungeon crawler without any puzzles. To me, they represent the core of what that particular sub-genre of RPG is all about. Not everyone agrees. Which presents developers with an interesting conundrum…

Shadowbane Relaunch Possibly in the Works

Developed by Wolfpack Studios and published by Ubisoft back in 2003, Shadowbane was a full PVP MMORPG set in a dynamic world. The game was shut down in 2009, with all related IP subsequently purchased by ChagYou. And if you…

Disco Elysium Now Available on Mac

Those of you stuck gaming on a Mac computer should be pleased to learn that ZA/UM Studio’s highly acclaimed detective-RPG Disco Elysium now features full Mac support, along with a number of general performance enhancements and optimizations. With that in…