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.

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Developer Blog – Combat AI

This week’s developer blog for TaleWorlds Entertainment’s Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is dedicated to the game’s advanced combat AI that will exist in three separate categories – individual, formation, and tactical AI. The new AI will consider the terrain,…

Hellgate: London Set to Launch on Steam

By this point, you’d have to be a tenured scholar to trace all the releases, re-releases, shutdowns, and revivals of Hellgate: London, an apocalyptic action-RPG originally created by the now defunct Flagship Studios. Still, all that matters now is that…

Path of Exile Celebrates Five Year Anniversary

Grinding Gear Games released their free-to-play Diablo-inspired action-RPG Path of Exile five years ago, on October 23, 2013. In order to acknowledge this fact, the developers have put together this post reflecting on what the game is, what it means…

The Waylanders Updates, $53,090 and Counting

In roughly a week, the Kickstarter campaign for Gato Salvaje Studio’s Dragon Age-inspired RPG The Waylanders has managed to gather $53,090 and is now well on its way towards the initial $150,000 goal. During this opening week, the project received…

Fallout 76 – Xbox One Beta Live

If you own an Xbox One and don’t want to wait until November 14th for Fallout 76, you’ll be pleased to know that you can now participate in a stress test beta ahead of the game’s official release. If you’re…

Knights of the Chalice 2 October 2018 Update

Back in August we learned that a Kickstarter campaign for Heroic Fantasy Games’ Knights of the Chalice II was in the works and that it was supposed to launch in November. However, the latest development update informs us that the…

The Lord of the Rings Online: Legendary Worlds Announced

After releasing the dwarf-flavored Update 23 for The Lord of the Rings Online, Standing Stone Games decided to look back at their long-running MMORPG’s history and announce the Legendary Worlds. Launching in November, this unique “Legendary” server will allow you…