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.

Grim Dawn Grim Misadventure #143 – Challenging Expectations

The latest “Grim Misadventure” update for Crate Entertainment’s action-RPG Grim Dawn announces a new feature coming to the game in the upcoming Forgotten Gods expansion – Challenge Areas. These new areas that take inspiration from the game’s Crucible mode will…

GOG Video Documentary – Preserving Gaming’s Past & Future

While not explicitly RPG-related, the new Noclip documentary is dedicated to GOG’s ongoing video game-preserving efforts, and it does feature a good deal of RPG footage and anecdotes. The documentary tells us about the company’s humble origins, the work they…

Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption July 2018 Update

Following the successful launch of their adventure-RPG, Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption, the Transolar Games team brings us a progress update where they outline the changes and improvements they’ve made, and are still planning to make, to Hero-U over the course…

Middle-earth: Shadow of War Free Demo Available

The recently released 1.18 update for Monolith’s Orc-slaying action-RPG Middle-earth: Shadow of War completely removes the in-game microtransaction market, while also streamlining and polishing the post-campaign Epilogue. And if that sounds like something you might be interested in, you can…

Grimshade Intro Trailer

Grimshade, Talerock’s story-driven tactical RPG with turn-based battles and anthropomorphic animals, was successfully funded on Kickstarter about a month ago. And now, we can check out the game’s intro cinematic that, over the course of two and a half minutes,…