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 Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr Zone Trailer

The Dragon and Khajiit-themed Elsweyr expansion for The Elder Scrolls Online is set to go live on June 4, 2019. According to this article on the game’s website, you can already play through a prologue mission that will kick off…

Operencia: The Stolen Sun Video Interview and Preview

Operencia: The Stolen Sun, Zen Studios’ upcoming dungeon crawler will be going live in just a few days on Xbox One and the Epic Games store. And if you’d like to learn a bit about this European folklore-inspired title prior…

EverQuest – Brandon McDonald Interview

EverQuest was originally released twenty years ago, on March 16, 1999. In order to celebrate the landmark MMORPG’s birthday, the folks over at Shacknews are preparing an extensive “making of” feature, and right now you can check out an excerpt…

The Dark Heart of Uukrul – Matt Chat

The latest episode of Matt Barton’s Matt Chat show is dedicated to The Dark Heart of Uukrul, an oft overlooked RPG released back in 1989. The game is said to combine some elements of Ultima and Dungeon Master, with an…

Outward – Split-screen Co-op Trailer

Nine Dots Studio’s survival-oriented action-RPG Outward is just about ready for its March 26, 2019 release. And since one of the game’s main features – split-screen co-op – isn’t utilized all that often these days, the developers have put together…

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen March 2019 Newsletter

If you’d like to learn what the developers over at Visionary Realms have been up to lately, the March newsletter for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen features a general status report and a fairly detailed community Q&A session. On top…

Darklands – The Digital Antiquarian

Originally released back in 1992, MicroProse’s historical cRPG Darklands is the subject of the latest The Digital Antiquarian article. In the typical Digital Antiquarian fashion, the article treats us to a detailed look at the game’s development, its bloated for…

Battle Brothers Developer Blog #119 – Tunes from the North

This week’s developer blog post for Overhype Studios’ strategy RPG Battle Brothers was penned by Breakdown Epiphanies, the game’s composers who wrote a bunch of new music specifically for the upcoming Warriors of the North DLC. But before you read…