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.

Battle Brothers Developer Blog #127 – The Retinue, Part 1

This week’s developer blog for Overhype Studios’ strategy RPG Battle Brothers sheds some light on one of the big new features coming to the game in the upcoming Blazing Deserts expansion. This feature will allow you to expand your mercenary…

BattleTech Update 1.9 Live

Earlier this month we learned that BattleTech’s update 1.9 will be its last, and that its release will allow the Harebrained Schemes team to focus on their other projects. Well, this Steam announcement informs us that the update is now…

Conglomerate 451 Released

Conglomerate 451, RuneHeads and 1C Entertainment’s cyberpunk dungeon crawler with roguelike elements, has left early access and is now live on Steam, priced at $16.99 or your regional equivalent, including a 15% launch week discount. This Steam announcement has the…

New World Previews

Amazon Game Studios’ conquistador-flavored MMORPG New World is aiming for a May 2020 release, but at the moment we know very little about this game’s actual systems and mechanics, especially since the developers seem keen on drastically changing them as…

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem Patch v1.0.4.0 Live

Following a bit of a messy launch plagued by server issues, the developers behind Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem bring us a sizable patch for their hack ‘n’ slash action-RPG. The patch fixes a good number of bugs and issues and…

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Early Access Announcement

The long wait is almost over. TaleWorlds Entertainment’s sandbox RPG Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord finally has a release date. Well, its early access version does. But at least it’s something. Barring any last-minute delays, Bannerlord should be launching into…

Biomutant Still in Development

Experiment 101 and THQ Nordic’s post-apocalyptic kung-fu themed action-RPG Biomutant was originally supposed to launch sometime in 2019. That clearly didn’t happen. And even though you can currently pre-order the game, its actual release date is still shrouded in mystery.…

Path of Exile – Q&A With the Founders and What to Expect

Grinding Gear Games founders Chris Wilson, Jonathan Rogers and Erik Olofsson participated in a live Q&A during last year’s ExileCon event, and if you’d like to hear what they had to say about their studio and their highly successful action-RPG…