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.

Monster Hunter: World Interview

In his recent interview with Gamasutra, Yuya Tokuda, the game director on Capcom’s Monster Hunter: World, talked about the challenges of creating a seamless living, breathing world and utilizing the latest hardware in order to open up the beloved Japanese…

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Released on Steam

Beamdog’s Enhanced Edition of Neverwinter Nights is now available on Steam for $19.99 or your regional equivalent. This new release includes the original campaign, the two official expansion packs, three “premium” modules, the Aurora Toolset, and the Dungeon Master Client.…

BattleTech Release Date Announced, Story Trailer

While previously we knew that Harebrained Schemes’ BattleTech was going to be released in April, the latest story trailer transforms that release window into a release date. Come April 24, 2018, you’ll be able to grab the game from both…

Jeff Vogel Interview

Before delivering his GDC talk, Spiderweb Software’s Jeff Vogel spoke with GeekWire about his career and what it’s like to be an indie developer. Considering that Vogel’s game-making career spans over two decades, the resulting interview covers a multitude of…

CD Project Red Plans to Release an Unannounced RPG by 2021

While most of us were watching CD Projekt’s financial results conference with Adam Kiciński and Piotr Nielubowicz, the folks over at Forbes were studying the fine print of the Board Report. This allowed them to discover a mention of “another…

Phoenix Point Development Update – Backer Build One

A new development update for Snapshot Games’ Phoenix Point announces the launch date for the first playable backer build. Barring any further delays, this so-called Backer Build One should be up and running by April 30, 2018 and feature a…

Ash of Gods: Redemption – A Flurry of Patches

AurumDust’s narrative RPG Ash of Gods: Redemption was released on March 23rd and since then it has already received a total of six patches. You can find their detailed descriptions on Steam – patch 1.0.16, patch 1.0.25, patch 1.0.27, patch…

Titan Quest Console Edition Changes

The console version and collector’s edition of Iron Lore’s venerable action-RPG Titan Quest launched on March 20, 2018. You can pick the edition you want and grab it through the game’s website. And if you’d like to know what’s so…

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Features Trailer

Ahead of its May 8, 2018 release, Obsidian Entertainment’s highly anticipated cRPG Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire gets a new snazzy looking trailer that, over the course of two minutes, introduces us to some of the game’s standout features. From…

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Launch Day Stream Detailed

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition will be launching on Steam tomorrow, March 27, 2018. In order to celebrate the release of their latest Enhanced Edition, Beamdog will hold a celebratory livestream on Twitch. The stream will be packed with official announcements,…