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.

Thea 2: The Shattering Update #21

MuHa Games’ upcoming 4X/RPG hybrid Thea 2: The Shattering has a new Kickstarter update that describes the role of children in the game, informs us that a new demo will be playable at the upcoming Digital Dragons event in May,…

Path of Exile Skill Revamps, Part Three

The upcoming 3.3.0 content update for Grinding Gear Games’ action-RPG Path of Exile will be shaking things up quite a bit and changing how many of the game’s skills operate. The latest developer post to offer a glimpse of these…

Disco Elysium Previews/Impressions

Disco Elysium, ZA/UM Studio’s upcoming detective RPG formerly known as No Truce With the Furies had a strong presence at this year’s EGX Rezzed, and as a result we have several hands-on previews to check out. First, there’s Green Man…

Pathfinder: Kingmaker Update #50 – New Race Unlocked

Thanks to numerous pre-orders and late backers, Owlcat Games’ Kickstarter campaign for their isometric cRPG Pathfinder: Kingmaker now has over $1 million in pledges, which means that come release, the game will have an additional playable race. And if at…

Wasteland 3 Update #24 – On the Road to Alpha

According to the new Fig update for inXile’s Wasteland 3 that brings us up to speed with the current state of Wasteland 3’s gameplay systems, content, art and audio design, and backer rewards, at this point over 90% of the…

BioWare Studio Update from Casey Hudson

Casey Hudson, BioWare’s current general manager who previously produced/directed such hit games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the Mass Effect Trilogy brings us the latest BioWare news in this inaugural entry in a new series of…

Grim Dawn Grim Misadventure #136

The upcoming Forgotten Gods expansion for Crate Entertainment’s action-RPG Grim Dawn will take us on a trip through all sorts of deserts, canyons, and lost cities. One of such new areas, the Korvan Plateau, is described in the latest “Grim…

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen April Newsletter

This month’s newsletter for Visionary Realms’ fantasy MMORPG Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen recounts the team’s experiences at PAX East, provides an overview for the game’s highly resourceful Ratkin race, features a lengthy Q&A session with the game’s CTO and…

Phoenix Point – Julian Gollop at EGX Rezzed 2018

Snapshot Games’ Julian Gollop participated in this year’s EGX Rezzed event with a roughly 40 minutes long Phoenix Point presentation, during which he talked about some of Snapshot Games’ design decisions aimed at differentiating Phoenix Point from its X-COM predecessors.…

Gwent Homecoming – Upcoming Updates Detailed

An open letter from Marcin Iwiński and the development team behind Gwent outlines CD Projekt’s current plans for their The Witcher-themed CCG. In short, the developers acknowledge that the recent updates diluted their original vision for the game and because…