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.

The Bronze Age of RPGs, Part 2 – Matt Chat

The new episode of Matt Barton’s retrospective video series continues and concludes his look back at the Bronze Age of RPGs of late 1970’s-early 80’s. This time around we’re treated to some gameplay footage from such video game relics like…

The Elder Scrolls Online Wolfhunter DLC and Update 19 Preview

Back around this year’s E3, Bethesda announced two new pieces of content for their massively multiplayer RPG The Elder Scrolls: Online – Wolfhunter and Murkmire. And now, we get a detailed preview of the first, werewolf-themed, DLC and its accompanying…

The New World Update #28

The latest development update for Iron Tower Studio’s colony ship RPG The New World offers a brief general status update and then proceeds to talk about the game’s slightly unusual implementation of power armor that either provides you with a…

Todd Howard on Service-based Games and Bethesda’s Future

Bethesda’s Todd Howard recently had a chat with GamesIndustry.biz about Fallout 76 and The Elder Scrolls: Blades, and how these two unusual projects don’t mark the end of Bethesda’s single-player focus and are merely experiments that try something new. Mobile…

Julian Gollop Interview

If you’re interested in a fairly in-depth interview with Julian Gollop, the creator of the original X-Com games, that’s mostly focused on his new X-Com inspired project, Phoenix Point, then you may want to check out this RPG Codex feature.…