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.

BattleTech Released, Reviews

BattleTech, Harebrained Schemes’ highly anticipated turn-based tactics game with plenty of RPG elements and over 30 types of giant mechs, is now available on both Steam and GOG for $39.99 or your regional equivalent. The game offers a single-player story…

Starpoint Gemini Warlords Update 2.0 Available

A brand new content update for Little Green Men Games’ 4X/RPG hybrid Starpoint Gemini Warlords is now live. It overhauls the game’s diplomacy mechanics and offers a decent assortment of miscellaneous changes and quality of life improvements. This sizable update…

Neverwinter: Lost City of Omu Console Patch Notes

The “Lost City of Omu” content update for Perfect World and Cryptic Studios’ action-packed MMO Neverwinter should be going live today on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The update will continue the Chultan adventures of the Tomb of Annihilation expansion…

Path of Exile May Flashback Event Detailed

If you would like to revisit the content and mechanics from some of the previous fan-favorite Path of Exile challenge leagues, you should mark your calendars for May 4, 2018 when the recently announced Flashback Event goes live. This event…

Josh Sawyer on the RPG Genre Evolution

Personally, I’ve never been able to find a lot of merit in Josh Sawyer’s game design ideas and philosophies. His desire to eradicate degenerate gameplay and create a balanced experience in the process is antithetical to my idea of a…

Rumor: Cyberpunk 2077 Might Launch Sooner than Expected

The folks over at GamignBolt did some digging and discovered a Polish report indicating that CD Projekt Red is intending to use a good chunk of their 2017 profits for an upcoming marketing campaign for Cyberpunk 2077. According to their…

Dungeons III: Lord of the Kings DLC Released

Back in January, we were promised three pieces of DLC for Kalypso Media and Realmforge Studios’ latest dungeon sim Dungeons III. We got Once Upon a Time in February, Evil of the Caribbean in March, and now Steam, GOG and…

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem Update #77

A quick Kickstarter update for SolarFall Games’ action-RPG Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem brings word of a new patch for the Early Access version of the game that fixes a couple of miscellaneous issues and updates the game’s Russian, Spanish, and…

The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep Alpha Gameplay Videos

As we mention in our own preview of inXile’s upcoming dungeon crawler The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep, the combat in that game, with its 4×4 grid and multiple enemy waves, bears little resemblance to its old-school predecessors. And if…

Revisiting the Original EverQuest

If you ever wondered what it would be like to play the original EverQuest in 2018 without two decades’ worth of updates and expansions, this PC Gamer article should be right up your alley. It offers a retrospective look at…