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.

Vaporum Celebrates Its First Anniversary

Fatbot Games released its steampunk dungeon crawler Vaporum roughly a year ago, and in order to celebrate the first anniversary since the game’s release, the team offers a week-long 40% discount on both Steam and GOG. And in the accompanying…

The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep Patch #2 Available

The team at inXile Entertainment has put together the second patch for their recently released dungeon crawler The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep that improves the game’s performance, lowers its load times, and fixes a heap of miscellaneous bugs and…

Beamdog Livestream Recap – Sales, Patches, and Updates

Beamdog’s Lee Guille and Luke Rideout bring us the latest developer livestream where they direct our attention to the ongoing Beamdog Store sale and talk about the upcoming 2.6 patch for the Infinity Engine Enhanced Editions that should go live…

Battle Brothers Developer Blog #106 – Legendary Locations

This week’s developer blog for Overhype Studios’ Battle Brothers covers the exploration part of the upcoming Beasts & Exploration expansion that should make the game’s world roughly 25% bigger, add plenty of new legendary locations and epic encounters, and slightly…

Pathfinder: Kingmaker Hotfixes

Since its release a few days ago, Owlcat Games’ Pathfinder: Kingmaker has received two quick patches that fix a good number of issues that snuck into the initial release version of the cRPG. The first one just generally improves the…

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Developer Blog Q&A

A good UI is an important part of an enjoyable video game experience, and to show us they have things covered in that department, TaleWorlds Entertainment’s latest in-house Q&A, introduces us to Emre Özdemir, one of the UI programmers working…

Fallout 76 Official In-game Intro, Beta Details

According to this announcement on Bethesda’s official website, Fallout 76 should be going into beta in roughly a month, on October 30th, or October 23rd for those playing on an Xbox One. But if you’re not too interested in the…