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.

A Look Back at Origin Systems

Origin Systems, the influential video game developer behind the Ultima and Wing Commander series that employed such giants of game development like Richard Garriott, Warren Spector, and John Romero, is the subject of this retrospective article over at TechRaptor that…

BattleTech Update #50 – Backer Keys Are on Their Way

A quick Kickstarter update for Harebrained Schemes’ BattleTech informs us that the backer keys have been sent out ahead of the game’s April 24, 2018 release and should be arriving to their respective backers shortly. This will allow them to…

Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr Postponed to June 5th

NeocoreGames’ action-RPG Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr was originally supposed to escape the clutches of Early Access on May 11, 2018. This is not the case anymore, since according to this open letter from the game’s producer, the game’s full…

Underworld Ascendant Interviews/Impressions

Otherside Entertainment was presenting their upcoming dungeon crawling immersive sim Underworld Ascendant at PAX East, which included a playable demo and a few developer interviews. You can find a couple of those interviews along with some demo impressions below: Let’s…

ATOM RPG Patch v0.7 Available

The post-apocalyptic Fallout-inspired ATOM RPG has received a new Early Access update that greatly expands the currently available content by adding new areas, quests, characters, items, and mechanics. This should leave the players with plenty of new stuff to discover…

Phoenix Point Previews/Interviews

Snapshot Games’ Julian Gollop talked about Phoenix Point for some 40 minutes at EGX Rezzed, showing off some new gameplay systems, alien mutations, and the current iteration of the Geoscape in the process. And if you’d like to hear a…

Dark Souls III Cut Content Analyzed

As a general rule, the entire Dark Souls series revels in being maddeningly mysterious. As such, it’s no surprise that there’s no shortage of people willing to try and uncover those mysteries. This PC Gamer article, for example, directs us…