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.

Ricardo Bare Interview – Arkane Studios and Dishonored

Ricardo Bare, the lead designer at Arkane Studios had a chat with VG247 during this year’s QuakeCon. He talked about the company’s future, the team’s plans to experiment with more multiplayer elements, and the fate of the Dishonored series that’s…

The Magic Candle in the Golden Age of RPGs – Matt Chat

In the latest episode of his retrospective video series, Matt Barton checks out The Magic Candle, an Ultima-inspired hidden gem of an RPG from the so-called Golden Age of late 1980s – early 90s. If you’re interested in seeing some…

Beamdog Livestream Recap – Studio News and Updates

During last week’s Beamdog livestream, Phil Daigle and Lee Guille brought us up to speed with all the latest studio news. In short, Beamdog will be attending PAX West and the Edmonton Expo, subscribing to the studio’s newsletter will give…

Jagged Alliance: Rage! Announced

I honestly don’t know why it seems to be impossible to create a worthy successor to the second Jagged Alliance game. Time and again, various developers keep trying, and failing, to do so. The latest attempt is the recently announced…

Michael Cranford on Creating The Bard’s Tale

Michael Cranford, the mastermind behind The Bard’s Tale series of dungeon crawlers, recently had a chat with USgamer where he talked, in great detail, about his influential series and how it helped launch what the resulting article calls the second…

Fallout 76 – Introduction to Multiplayer

A new promotional video for Fallout 76 introduces us to the basics of the game’s multiplayer interactions by putting the series’ mascot, the ever cheerful Vault Boy, in a variety of harrowing situations that can be resolved by either conflict…

Path of Exile: Delve Challenge League FAQ

The upcoming Delve challenge league for Path of Exile should be going live in a couple of weeks, on August 31, 2018. And in order to clarify some things about this new chunk of content and its less than obvious…

The Bard’s Tale Trilogy Available

If you’re in the mood for some old-school dungeon crawling, or if you’re a $20+ backer of The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep on Kickstarter, you should be happy to know that the remastered versions of the three original The…

Queen’s Wish: The Conqueror Update #7

A new development update for Spiderweb Software’s upcoming cRPG Queen’s Wish: The Conqueror has gone up on Kickstarter. The update brings us up to speed with the game’s development, talks a bit about backer rewards, and tells us what’s next…

The Elder Scrolls Online: Wolfhunter DLC Released

The werewolf-themed Wolfhunter DLC for Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls Online has been released. You can purchase it from the in-game Crown store for the equivalent of roughly $15 and get access to a couple of new dungeons, while the accompanying…