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.

Warhammer Quest 2: The End Times Live on Steam

Warhammer Quest 2: The End Times, Perchang’s follow-up to Rodeo Games’ Warhammer Quest that in turn was based on Games Workshop’s role-playing adventure board game of the same name, is now available on Steam. Originally released for mobile devices, Warhammer…

Path of Exile – Narrative Designer Interview

Matt Dymerski is a horror writer who recently joined Grinding Gear Games as a narrative designer. He already got a chance to work on Path of Exile’s current Betrayal expansion and is now writing some new lore for the upcoming…

Playing Ultima Underworld – The Digital Antiquarian

A couple weeks back, The Digital Antiquarian talked about the development of Blue Sky Productions’ free-roaming dungeon crawler Ultima Underworld. And this time around, we get a very detailed overview of what made the game work, and just how unique…

The Iron Oath Update #39

Character backstories in Curious Panda’s upcoming turn-based RPG The Iron Oath will be dynamically generated by weaving together a series of events that will determine each character’s traits and loyalty quest, and add a bit of flavor in the process.…

Outward Previews

Outward, Nine Dots Studio’s survival-oriented open-world RPG, is currently slated for a March 26, 2019 release. And if you’d like to learn a thing or two about this intriguing title prior to it going live, you should check out a…

Battle Brothers: Warriors of the North DLC Announced

This post on Overhype Studios’ developer blog for Battle Brothers lets us know that a new DLC for the turn-based strategy RPG is on the way. Entitled Warriors of the North, this DLC will introduce a new barbarian-styled human faction,…

BattleTech Update #59 – Patch v1.4.0 Available

The latest Kickstarter update for Harebrained Schemes’ BattleTech informs us that the game has received a new patch that improves its performance, adds some quality of life stuff, and introduces the French, German, and Russian localizations. The update also lets…