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.

Dying Light 2 Interview

Techland’s upcoming open world zombie-survival game Dying Light 2 will feature plenty of opportunities for the player to make impactful decisions and choices. These choices, and their inevitable consequences, are the major focus of this GamesIndustry.biz interview with Techland’s chief…

Jagged Alliance: Rage! Preview

Following the recent announcement of Jagged Alliance: Rage! Rock, Paper, Shotgun offers their preview of an early version of the game. Some complaints about the noticeable lack of polish aside, the preview is fairly positive, likening Rage! to Firaxis’ take…

Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption Update #104

The latest Kickstarter update for Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption directs us to some fairly positive media coverage of the recently released Adventure/RPG, talks about the upcoming patch for the game that should be fixing a number of issues and updating…

Code of the Savage Updates, $4,994 and Counting

Code of the Savage is in the final week of its Kickstarter campaign, so now would be a decent time to check out some of the old-school RPG’s recent updates. Update #5 shows off the NPC portrait creation process. Update…

Prey – Raphael Colantonio Talks Final Act

Raphael Colantonio, the former head of Arkane Studios, joined Kotaku’s Splitscreen podcast last week to talk about Prey’s somewhat turbulent development and its fairly polarizing final stretch. The link above has the full podcast, but here’s an excerpt from the…

Vampyr TV Series in the Works

Focus Home Interactive and Dontnod Entertainment’s narrative-driven action-RPG Vampyr may be getting a TV adaptation in the near future. Nothing is ever certain in the entertainment industry, but according to the press release we received, FOX21, a production company responsible…

New Infinity Engine Enhanced Edition Updates Available

The team over at Beamdog has put together a series of new updates for some of their Infinity Engine titles, including Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition, Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, and Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear. The Baldur’s Gate updates feature…

Battle Brothers Developer Blog #100 – The Unhold

This week’s Battle Brothers developer blog introduces us to the Unhold, a fiercely territorial creature coming to the game in the Beasts & Exploration DLC. The Unhold will come in three region-specific variants, will possess great strength, and in combat…

The New World Steam Page Live, Concept Trailer

The New World, Iron Tower Studio’s upcoming colony ship RPG, now has a Steam page of its own and a tentative release date in fall 2020. A new concept trailer is also available, showcasing some bits of the game’s art…