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.

Path of Exile – Designing Delirium’s Unique Items

Grinding Gear Games’ recent Delirium challenge league expansion for their free to play action-RPG Path of Exile introduced a number of new unique items to the game. And if you’d like to know how the developers came up with these…

New World – Release Date Update and Invasions

Due to the new working arrangements over at Amazon Game Studios, their upcoming conquistador-themed MMORPG New World will be launching later than originally expected. Right now, the plan is to launch the game into closed beta in July and then…

Gamedec Updates, $113,557 and Counting

As is usually the case with Kickstarter campaigns, things have slowed down considerably for Anshar Studio’s Gamedec campaign around the halfway point. And with $113,557 pledged and 14 days still to go, we can now check out a couple of…

Solasta: Crown of the Magister Update – Day & Night Cycles

The latest development update for Tactical Adventures’ D&D-based CRPG Solasta: Crown of the Magister starts by announcing the winner of the recent community contest. It then shows off the newly implemented day and night cycle, and talks about random encounters…

Battle Brothers – Blazing Deserts Situation Update

Instead of a regular development update, this week’s developer blog for Overhype Studios’ strategy RPG Battle Brothers talks about how the current situation affects the team and how as the result, the upcoming Blazing Deserts expansion will likely be delayed.…

Fallout 76: Wastelanders Official Trailer #2

With the free Wastelanders expansion for Bethesda’s online survival-RPG Fallout 76 launching on April 14, 2020, we get a new trailer that showcases some of the new stuff the expansion will be introducing, such as human NPCs, new creatures and…