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.

Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 Episode 3 Story Trailer

Ubisoft intends to release a new episodic content update for Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 in February, and as a result we can now watch a fresh story trailer for the co-operative action-RPG that highlights the upcoming high-stakes journey to…

Star Trek Online: Legacy Live on PC

As part of Star Trek Online’s 10th anniversary celebrations, Cryptic Studios and Perfect World Entertainment released the Legacy content update for their free to play MMORPG. The update is now live on PC, and should be coming to PlayStation 4…

Encased Development Update – Plans for 2020

Dark Crystal Games, the team behind the post-apocalyptic RPG Encased, is looking to leave early access before the end of the year, and as such, we get a fresh development update that outlines their plans for getting there. Right now,…

Stoneshard Update #62 – Tweaks & Changes

Prior to launching their crowdfunded roguelike RPG Stoneshard into Steam Early Access, the Ink Stain Games team brings us this Kickstarter update detailing some of the recent tweaks and changes they introduced to spice things up. These include a placeholder…

Torchlight Frontiers is now Torchlight III

Echtra Games, a studio headed by Max Schaefer who you may know as the mastermind behind the Torchlight series, announced Torchlight Frontiers back in 2018. The game was initially positioned as a free to play multiplayer action-RPG, but following some…

Mass Effect 2 Suicide Mission Retrospective

BioWare released Mass Effect 2, the second entry in their space opera series, on January 26, 2010. And in order to celebrate the game’s tenth anniversary, the folks over at Eurogamer put together this massive article dedicated solely to the…

Path of Exile – Procedural World Generation

During last year’s ExileCon event, Grinding Gear Games’ senior programmer Rhys Abraham gave a talk dedicated to Path of Exile’s procedural world generation. During the talk, he explained the ins and outs of the system, shed some light on the…