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.

Yodha – Vishasati Character Showcase

Just like its predecessor Asura, Ogre Head Studio’s upcoming action-RPG Yodha will be heavily steeped in Indian mythology. As such, we can now check out a quick “character showcase” video introducing us to Vishasati, a fiery banshee-like enemy we’ll be…

Starpoint Gemini 3 – Farewell 2019

The team over at Little Green Men Games is busy working on Starpoint Gemini 3, and as such, along with some holiday well-wishes, their end of year update reflects that by highlighting the new stuff coming to the early access…

Tower of Time Free on GOG for a Limited Time

The folks over at GOG.com kicked off their winter sale with a limited time giveaway of inXile Entertainment’s post-apocalyptic RPG Wasteland 2, and they’re about to wrap it up by giving away Event Horizon’s tactical dungeon crawling RPG Tower of…

Colin McComb Interview – Matt Chat

Colin McComb, a prominent game designer who worked on a number of high-profile pen and paper RPG settings including Planescape and Dragonlance, as well as a few notable video games (Fallout 2, Wasteland 2, Planescape: Torment, Torment: Tides of Numenera),…

Guild Wars 2 – Looking Ahead to the New Year

The end of year update on the official Guild Wars 2 website starts by looking back at 2019, and then promptly follows that up by outlining all the new content ArenaNet’s MMORPG will be getting in Q1 2020. This should…

Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness Update #35

The closed backer beta for Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness, GrapeOcean Technologies’ upcoming isometric CRPG, will be launching on March 24, 2020. If you’re interested in giving it a go, this Kickstarter update explains what you need to do to…

Beamdog – Reflections on an Epic Year

Beamdog, the team behind all the Infinity Engine Enhanced Editions, had a fairly productive year. As a result, we can now check out this post on their official website that shares a quick summary of the studio’s achievements throughout 2019…

Path of Exile 2 – Worldbuilding Presentation

Grinding Gear Games’ inaugural ExileCon event brought us a good deal of reveals and announcements, including one for Path of Exile 2 – a sequel to Path of Exile set 20 years after the events of the original action-RPG. With…

Pathfinder: Kingmaker – Christmas Developer Stream

With the holiday season upon us and with Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous on the way, the developers over at Owlcat Games have put together a festive livestream where they, over the course of roughly two hours, shared some behind…