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.

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord – Website Update

This week’s developer blog post for TaleWorlds Entertainment’s upcoming sandbox RPG Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is fairly short, as it simply directs us to the game’s newly overhauled website. The new website is designed to be fairly user-friendly and…

SKALD: Against the Black Priory Update #25 – Worldbuilding

The main attraction of the latest Kickstarter update for Scape-IT’s old-school RPG SKALD: Against the Black Priory are the two developer blog posts related to the game’s lore and worldbuilding. The first one, dedicated to the game’s Freymark region, we…

Path of Exile 2 Preview, Conquerors of the Atlas Changes

Path of Exile 2 was revealed at this year’s official ExileCon together with the Conquerors of the Atlas challenge league expansion for the original iteration of the free to play action-RPG. And if you’d like to know what the upcoming…

BattleTech: Heavy Metal Expansion and 1.8 Update Available

Heavy Metal, the latest expansion for Harebrained Schemes’ BattleTech, is now live. You can grab it from Steam or GOG for $19.99 or your regional equivalent, or get it as part of BattleTech’s Season Pass, and enjoy a new mini-campaign,…

The Lord of the Rings Online Executive Producer Interview

Originally released back in 2007, The Lord of the Rings Online is still going strong, albeit without the fanfare of somethings huge like World of Warcraft. And according to the game’s executive producer Rob Ciccolini, Standing Stone Games intends to…

The Outer Worlds Patch v1.1.1.0 Live

A new patch is now live for Obsidian Entertainment’s sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds. The patch addresses a number of issues reported by the game’s community, fixes a few crashes, and rebalances a particular item that didn’t work quite as…

ATOM RPG – Patch v1.1096 and Translation Update

The developers over at AtomTeam bring us this Steam announcement where they share the latest patch notes for their post-apocalyptic ATOM RPG and go into detail on the status of the game’s fan translations. If you’re interested in playing through…

Diablo IV System Design Overview

David Kim, the lead systems designer on Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo IV, brings us this blog post dedicated to the game’s system design. In it, he talks about Diablo IV’s itemization, endgame progression, and character power sources, while also addressing a…