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.

Dragon Age: Inquisition – Memories and Lessons

For a while now, Mark Darrah, who you may know as the executive producer on Dragon Age: Inquisition, has been recording game development focused videos for his YouTube channel. And the latest one of those is a massive hour and…

Solasta: Crown of the Magister Update – Warlocks

The Inner Strength DLC for Solasta: Crown of the Magister is scheduled to go live on November 14, 2022, and as such, now’s the time to learn a few things about the Warlock class the DLC is going to introduce.…

Neverwinter: Northdark Reaches Now Live

The Northdark Reaches module is now live for Cryptic Studios’ free to play MMORPG Neverwinter. Written in collaboration with R.A. Salvatore and Geno Salvatore, the events of this new module are set in-between the first two books in Salvatore’s The…

Mass Effect – N7 Day 2022

For this year’s N7 Day, BioWare reminds us that a new game in the Mass Effect series is currently going through pre-production and introduces us to some of the team members. We’re then told about a cross-promotion with The Sims…

Diablo IV – How World Tiers Work

Seeing how beating the same game three times has understandably fallen out of favor as the default difficulty model for action-RPGs, you might be interested in learning a thing or two about Blizzard’s approach to difficulty in Diablo IV and that…

Crowfall Getting Ready To Go Offline

Described by its developers as a “Throne War” MMORPG, Crowfall went live in 2021. But after about a year and a half online, ArtCraft Entertainment is now looking to evaluate the game in its current state and perhaps redesign some…

Dungeons & Dragons: Onslaught Preview

Revealed a few months back during this year’s D&D Direct event, Dungeons & Dragons: Onslaught is a miniature-based 1v1 skirmish game utilizing the latest D&D ruleset. And if you’d like to know how it plays and what it’s about, you…

Dungeons & Dragons Online 2022 Review

Being a long-running MMORPG, Dungeons & Dragons Online is a much different beast now compared to what it was a decade, or even a few years, ago. And as such, you might be interested in this here video review from…

Rusty Buchert Interview – Matt Chat

Those of you interested in video game history should check out the latest episode of Matt Barton’s Matt Chat show where he brings us another extended interview with an industry veteran. This time around it’s Rusty Buchert, a man with over three…