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.

Breach – QC Games Shutting Down

QC Games, a team consisting of a number of ex-BioWare developers, launched their multiplayer brawler RPG Breach into Steam Early Access back in January. Unfortunately, despite a steady stream of updates, the game hasn’t gotten enough traction and according to…

Outward Reviews

Nine Dots Studio’s survival and exploration-focused RPG Outward launched a week or so ago. Back then we got a chance to check out a couple of early reviews for the game, but now we get a more complete picture. However,…

Anthem – How It Went Wrong

BioWare’s co-operative action-RPG Anthem launched back in February. On release, the game had its share of issues and wasn’t all that well-received. Because of that, Kotaku’s Jason Schreier has reached out to a number of BioWare developers in order to…

Outward and Pathfinder: Kingmaker Physical Goods Giveaway

Owlcat Games’ isometric cRPG Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Nine Dots Studio’s survival-focused action-RPG Outward are both published by Deep Silver, and as a result both of these games are now a part of Koch Media’s Instagram promotion. According to Outward’s and…

Neverwinter Nights – Matt Chat

If you’d like to reminisce about BioWare’s Dungeons & Dragons-based RPG Neverwinter Nights, you should check out the latest episode of Matt Barton’s Matt Chat show where he plays the game for about two hours while discussing its rule set…

Pathfinder: Kingmaker Patch v1.3 Live

A new patch has made its way to Owlcat Games’ isometric cRPG Pathfinder: Kingmaker. As is often the case with Kingmaker’s patches, the patch is absolutely massive, to the point where the changelog had to be split into two separate…

The Iron Oath Update #41

This month’s Kickstarter update for Curious Panda’s gritty turn-based RPG The Iron Oath shares some artwork and animations, teases some upcoming feature reveals, and shows off a short pixel art timelapse video. Let’s start with that: And here are the…

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Developer Interview

Right after Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 was announced, the game’s developers, including Brian Mitsoda, the mastermind behind the previous Bloodlines game, participated in an hour long interview, discussing their freshly revealed vampire RPG. They talked about how the…

Starpoint Gemini 3 Developer Diary #2

The latest developer diary for Little Green Men Games’ space-action RPG Starpoint Gemini 3 is mostly focused on the upcoming game’s technical side. As such, it lists a good deal of recent engine improvements that should make the latest installment…