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.

The Surge 2 Jericho’s Legacy Gear Pack DLC Available

While we’re waiting for the upcoming Kraken story expansion for Deck13’s Dark Souls-inspired action-RPG The Surge 2, we get a smaller gear-focused DLC in the Jericho’s Legacy Gear Pack. Priced at $4.99 or your regional equivalent and included in the…

Dauntless Stormchasers Update Available, Live on Nintendo Switch

The Phoenix Labs team has put together a fresh content update for their Monster Hunter-inspired free to play action-RPG Dauntless. Known as Stormchasers (patch notes), the update’s standout features include the Escalation mode where you have to fight five Behemoths…

Hades Available on Steam Early Access

Roughly a year ago, Supergiant Games launched their Greek mythology-flavored roguelite action-RPG Hades into early access on the Epic Games store. That period of forced exclusivity is now over and as a result you can purchase the game, still in…

Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition Coming in 2021

Paradox Interactive, the owners of the World of Darkness IP, are apparently looking to revitalize WoD’s werewolf branch. In 2020 we’ll be getting Cyanide Studio’s Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood, but that’s just the start. According to this open press…

The Waylanders Update #38 – Nazhedja

The Waylanders, Gato Salvaje Studio’s upcoming Dragon Age-inspired RPG, will feature plenty of time travel. The character of Nazhedja the Seer will reflect that by being able to see through time. And if you’d like to know what this particular…

Dark Envoy Development Update 1 – Motion Capture

Event Horizon, the team behind last year’s dungeon-crawling action-RPG Tower of Time, is currently busy working on Dark Envoy, their next project that promises plenty of turn-based battles in a world that combines magic with steampunk elements. With the game…

Odd Gods Interview

Originally announced back in 2017, Odd Gods is a curious time-travel RPG that’s sometimes described as “Bill and Ted meets Dungeons and Dragons.” And according to this recent Turn Based Lovers interview with the game’s lead designer Gil Maclean, right…

George Ziets Interview, Part 5 – Matt Chat

The fifth and final installment of Matt Barton’s extensive chat with George Ziets covers plenty of interesting topics, including the development of inXile Entertainment’s Torment: Tides of Numenera, the intricacies of corwdfunding, innovation in the role-playing genre, underutilized RPG settings,…