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.

Kevin Saunders Interview, Part 4 – Matt Chat

During the fourth and final installment of Matt Barton’s chat with Kevin Saunders, Kevin talks about his time at Obsidian Entertainment, the development of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords, and the tough task…

Gamedec Updates, $102,606 and Counting

With three weeks still to go, Anshar Studios’ Kickstarter campaign for their cyberpunk detective RPG Gamedec is moving along at a respectable pace, currently sitting at $102,606 which more than doubles the initial $50,000 goal. When it comes to updates,…

Rune II Development Update – March 2020

The now-defunct Human Head Studios released their multiplayer Viking-themed action-RPG Rune II last year in a less than ideal state. As a result, the game’s original publisher Ragnarok Game LLC is now tasked with updating the game and making sure…

Outward: The Soroboreans Developer Diary

With The Soroboreans DLC for Nine Dots Studio’s survival-focused action-RPG Outward looming on the horizon, we get a new video diary where the studio’s CEO Guillaume Boucher-Vidal talks about all the new content the DLC will introduce. This includes two…

EVE Online – Eclipse Trailer

CCP Games will be kicking off the next EVE Online chapter on April 6, 2020. Entitled Eclipse, this new content update will introduce plentiful live events, celebrations, visual updates, and balance changes to the community-driven sci-fi MMO. On top of…

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Early Access Updates

TaleWorlds Entertainment launched their sandbox RPG Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord into early access less than a week ago, and since then, they’ve been patching the game on a pretty much daily basis. If you’re interested in the minute details,…

Baldur’s Gate II Retrospective

Having recently reminisced about the original Baldur’s Gate, you might now want to look back at the second entry in this venerable series. If that’s the case, you should check out this GameCrate article that tells the tale of Baldur’s…

Battle Brothers Developer Blog #133 – City States, Part 3

This week’s developer blog for Overhype Studios’ strategy RPG Battle Brothers takes us to the southern city states of the upcoming Blazing Deserts expansion one last time. There, instead of quaint archers and crossbowmen, the local lords are favoring gunpowder-based…

Darkest Dungeon: The Butcher’s Circus DLC Announced

If you ever wondered what it would be like to test your Darkest Dungeon prowess against other people, the recently announced The Butcher’s Circus DLC for Red Hook Studios’ side-scrolling RPG should help you with that. Listed on Steam as…