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.

The Best and Worst Boss Fights in PC Gaming

Boss fights are not a thing exclusive to RPGs, but reading this list of great and awful boss fights brought to us by PC Gamer’s editors, it becomes apparent that RPGs do have some of the most memorable bosses in…

Disco Elysium Introduction to Physique Skills

The developers behind the hardboiled detective RPG Disco Elysium, formerly known as No Truce with the Furies, already introduced us to their game’s highly intriguing Intellect and Psyche skills, and now it’s time for a taste of Physique, Disco Elysium’s…

Jeff Vogel on Divinity: Original Sin II

Spiderweb Software’s founder Jeff Vogel played through Larian Studios’ Divinity: Original Sin II recently and then wrote a lengthy blog post about his experiences with it. And even though he didn’t enjoy the game that much, he still ended up…

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Scavenger Hunt Event Open

If you’ve been following Obsidian Entertainment’s announcements and social media accounts lately, you might have noticed these mysterious strings of letters and symbols appearing here and there. As it turns out, those codes were a part of Obsidian’s promotional Scavenger…

BattleTech Basics: Story

The team at Harebrained Schemes announced BattleTech’s April 24 release date with a story trailer that revolved around the game’s intrigue-rich singleplayer campaign. And now we get another version of that trailer featuring additional developer commentary where Harebrained’s studio manager…

Dauntless Open Beta to Launch on May 24

After spending several months reworking and updating its systems and features in closed beta, Phoenix Labs’ co-operative Monster Hunter-like action-RPG Dauntless will enter open beta on May 24, 2018. According to this announcement on the game’s website, the developers estimate…

The Iron Oath Update #30

This month’s Kickstarter update for Curious Panda’s turn-based RPG The Iron Oath has quite a lot to share. First, we get a few paragraphs about all the newly added and reworked combat mechanics, like flanking and line of sight. Then,…

Phoenix Point Free Aiming Preview

Snapshot Games’ community manager who goes by UnstableVoltage posted a new video on his YouTube channel where he shows off Phoenix Point’s intriguing work-in-progress free aiming system. The video also offers a look at the game’s visual Time Unit bar…