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.

Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness Updates, $74,066 and Counting

With ten more days to go, the Kickstarter campaign for GrapeOcean Technologies’ Infinity Engine-inspired RPG Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness currently sits at $74,066, which means that the first stretch goal that promises additional language packs and advanced modding support…

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem Update #79

A new Kickstarter update for Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem informs us that the SolarFall Games’ team is currently working on implementing multiplayer features for the September beta release, directs us to an updated beta roadmap, and shows off the studio’s…

Beamdog Livestream Recap – General News and Updates

With Phil Daigle out for the week, Beamdog’s CEO Trent Oster is joined by the studio’s PR Manager Lee Guille for the scheduled weekly livestream. The two of them direct our attention to the newly redesigned Beamdog website with some…

Forged of Blood May 2018 Progress Update

Following three months of relative silence, a new developer blog post for Forged of Blood brings us up to speed with the current state of the game and assures us that the tactical turn-based RPG is still on schedule to…

Path of Exile – ExileCon Announced

If you like action-RPGs, Path of Exile, socializing with like-minded people, and are in a position to visit New Zealand on a whim, then you might want to mark your calendar for November 2019, when the Grinding Gear Games team…

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Developer Blog – Horses

This week’s developer blog post for Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is all about horses, a fairly major part of the Mount & Blade formula. According to the developers, in Bannerlord horses will come in a variety of different types…

Encased Announced (Again), Backstory Trailer Released

We first heard about Encased, Dark Crystal Games’ turn-based post-apocalyptic RPG back in March. Back then, the details were pretty scarce, but already there was a promise of a Fallout-inspired game and that’s a pretty good starting point, if you…

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Patch v1.0.2 Available

The first patch for Obsidian Entertainment’s latest cRPG Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire has been released. It fixes some of the game’s more prominent bugs, like level scaling and player dispositions, while also addressing a number of smaller, but perhaps…