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.

Joined: December 18, 2016
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ByVal Hull
OnJuly 4, 2018

Dying Light 2 – Chris Avellone and Adrian Ciszewski Interview

Dying Light 2, Techland’s upcoming zombie survival game, will try to offer a satisfying branching narrative to its players, and this VG247 interview with the prominent RPG writer Chris Avellone and the game’s creative director Adrian Ciszewski confirms that. The…

ByVal Hull
OnJuly 4, 2018

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem Update #80

The latest Kickstarter update for SolarFall Games’ upcoming hack ‘n’ slash action-RPG Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem brings us up to speed with the game’s development and explains in great detail the reasons for going with a static camera instead of…

ByVal Hull
OnJuly 4, 2018

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Patch v1.2.0 Live

The previously detailed patch v1.2.0 for Obsidian Entertainment’s Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is now live with its official mod support, performance improvements, several useful new features, a heap of fixes and, of course, balance adjustments. The full patch notes…

ByVal Hull
OnJuly 4, 2018

Path of Exile Patch v3.3.1 Available, New Incursion Rooms Detailed

One of the major new features of Path of Exile’s currently ongoing Incursion challenge league is the highly customizable Temple of Atzoatl you get to construct room by room in order to maximize your rewards. And with the release of…

ByVal Hull
OnJuly 3, 2018

Fallout Retrospective

If you’re in the mood for some nostalgia, you may want to check out this PC Gamer retrospective that looks back at Fallout, Interplay’s iconic post nuclear role playing game with its open-ended freedom to fail and its off-beat retro-futuristic…

ByVal Hull
OnJuly 3, 2018

GreedFall Interview

Jehanne Rousseau, the lead writer on Spiders’ upcoming “double-A” action-RPG GreedFall, had a chat with GamingBolt recently, where she talked about the game’s quests, endings, factions, character development, and more. If you’re interested in this upcoming stylish RPG, you may…

ByVal Hull
OnJuly 3, 2018

Vampyr First Update Available

Dontnod Entertainment and Focus Home Interactive bring us the first update for their vampire-themed action-RPG Vampyr. This update adds a couple of new quality of life features and fixes a number of miscellaneous issues and bugs. It also details how…

ByVal Hull
OnJuly 3, 2018

Todd Howard on Starfield

Bethesda Game Studios announced Starfield, their upcoming futuristic single-player game, during this year’s E3 with a short teaser trailer. And if you’d like to learn a bit more about this mysterious new Bethesda IP, you should check out this Eurogamer…

ByVal Hull
OnJuly 2, 2018

StarCrawlers Hotwire Update Available

The team at Juggernaut Games has recently released the so-called Hotwire update for their sci-fi dungeon crawler StarCrawlers. This free update fixes a number of bugs and issues, but more importantly, it expands the base game with a brand new…

ByVal Hull
OnJuly 2, 2018

Todd Howard Interview

Bethesda’s Todd Howard recently talked with GameStar about the studio’s past and future projects, including Fallout 4, Fallout 76, The Elder Scrolls VI, The Elder Scrolls: Blades, and even briefly mentioned a potential “Fallout 5” main series single-player RPG. Seeing how…