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.

Neverwinter: The Heart of Fire Announced

The Heart of Fire, the next bit of new content coming to Perfect World Entertainment’s D&D-inspired MMORPG Neverwinter, should be arriving to the PC platform on November 6, 2018, bringing a new Skirmish, storyline, and an overhauled profession system. And…

Anthem – Co-operative Storytelling and DLC Plans

Anthem, BioWare’s upcoming co-operative action-RPG, will take the studio known for its single-player RPGs in a new direction and so the developers feel this constant need to clarify how things will work there, in the process confusing pretty much everyone…

Hand of Fate 2 Patch v1.6.0 Available, Combat Reforged

Defiant Development’s deck-building action-RPG Hand of Fate 2 received a sizable new update a few days ago. The update drastically revamps the game’s combat, so if you liked the tabletop parts but weren’t too impressed with the combat, perhaps now…

Age of Wonders: Planetfall Gameplay Reveal

Age of Wonders: Planetfall, a sci-fi take on Triumph Studios’ long-running turn-based series, was announced earlier this year and now, finally, we can check out some actual gameplay and see how well robots, aliens, and lasers fit into the series…

Underworld Ascendant – Paul Neurath Interview

Paul Neurath, the lead designer on Ultima Underworld and the founder of Otherside Entertainment, is busy putting the finishing touches on his studio’s upcoming immersive sim Underworld Ascendant that should be launching on November 15, 2018. But in the meantime,…

Pathfinder: Kingmaker Update #58

Owlcat Games’ isometric cRPG Pathfinder: Kingmaker will be releasing later this month, and so the new Kickstarter update deals with all the backer-related stuff like pledge management, platform selection and whatnot. If you’re a backer for this game, you should…

Phoenix Point – The Growth of Snapshot Games

Snapshot Games, the studio behind Phoenix Point, keeps growing in order to help realize Julian Gollop’s vision for a true X-Com successor. And if you’re interested in knowing who exactly works on this ambitious Lovecraftian project, you can check out…

Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption Update #105

The latest update for Transolar Games’ Adventure/RPG Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption directs us to the recently released patch for the game and talks about backer rewards, the studio’s plans to crowdfund a Nintendo Switch version of Hero-U, its two upcoming…

System Shock Remastered Edition Update #47

This month’s Kickstarter update for Nightdive Studios’ System Shock Remastered Edition shares plenty of fresh screenshots, shows off some work-in-progress art, and even mentions the source port update for the Enhanced Edition of System Shock that’s out now as a…

Battle Brothers Developer Blog #103 – Crafting

The Beasts & Exploration DLC for Overhype Studios’ Battle Brothers will introduce a brand new crafting mechanic to the game, and while usually I’m not particularly fond of crafting in my games, the way it will work in Battle Brothers…