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 – Early Access Pre-orders Live

QC Games’ fast-paced action-RPG Breach will be coming to Steam Early Access in just a few days, on January 17, 2019. And if this curious take on the action-RPG genre looks like something you might enjoy, you can already pre-order…

Anthem – Javelin Overview and Official System Requirements

After bringing us a sample Anthem mission, IGN continues their coverage of BioWare’s upcoming co-operative action-RPG with a new video, this time around focusing on a single Javelin suit. If you’re interested in seeing what Anthem’s Storm Javelin can do,…

Realms Beyond: Ashes of the Fallen Update #17

Ceres Games’ Kickstarter campaign for their old-school RPG Realms Beyond: Ashes of the Fallen successfully concluded back in November of 2018. And now, we get the first proper post-funding update for the game that focuses on late backers, BackerKit surveys,…

Grim Dawn Grim Misadventure #154 – A Look Back at 2018

The first “Grim Misadventure” development update of the year recaps all the major updates Crate Entertainment’s Titan Quest-inspired action-RPG Grim Dawn received back in 2018, shares some screenshots, and then briefly talks about the new content coming our way in…

The Elder Scrolls Online – New Chapter Reveal Announced

If you’d like to know what’s next for The Elder Scrolls Online, you should visit Bethesda’s official Twitch channel on January 15. There, the game’s creative director Rich Lambert will reveal what’s coming to ESO in 2019, and you’ll be…

Anthem – Official CES 2019 Trailer

During this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, Nvidia unveiled some new products and showed off plenty of impressive tech demos. Some of their announcements revolved around BioWare’s upcoming co-operative action-RPG Anthem. First of all, we now know that Anthem will be…

Life on the Grid – The Digital Antiquarian

The latest entry in The Digital Antiquarian blog is dedicated to a number of real-time grid-based dungeon crawlers that followed FTL Games’ Dungeon Master, which pioneered that particular sub-genre of RPGs back in 1987. The article covers both well-known and…

The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep – Live Concert Announced

InXile Entertainment’s dungeon crawler The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep featured an impressive Gaelic-based soundtrack. And if you find yourself around the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow on January 31st 2019, you’ll be able to hear that soundtrack performed live.…

Stoneshard Update #41 – Consumables & Valuables

The previous development update for Ink Stains Games’ roguelike RPG Stoneshard introduced us to the basics of the game’s trade system. And now the new one covers some of the goods we’ll be able to buy and sell in Stoneshard.…