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.

Joined: December 18, 2016
Articles: 9834

post: 8537
reviews: 202
guides: 1019

ByVal Hull
OnMarch 12, 2018

Kingdom Come: Deliverance – Curious Case of Saviour Schnapps

As far as I’m concerned, there is no excuse for not having a proper saving system in your game. Multiple quick save slots, rotating autosaves, and manual saves on top of that is what every self-respecting game should have in…

ByVal Hull
OnMarch 11, 2018

Titan Quest Console Release, Collector’s Edition Details

A few months ago, THQ Nordic announced that they’ll be bringing Titan Quest to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on March 20, 2018, with a Nintendo Switch release lagging a bit behind. They also informed us that together with…

ByVal Hull
OnMarch 11, 2018

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Steam Launch Date Announced, Livestream Recap

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition, Beamdog’s latest RPG remaster, will be coming to Steam on March 27, 2018, according to the weekly developer livestream with Trent Oster and Phil Daigle. The full release won’t stop the currently ongoing Head Start program…

ByVal Hull
OnMarch 10, 2018

No Truce With the Furies Renamed to Disco Elysium

ZA/UM Studio’s intriguing RPG No Truce with the Furies used to be quite confusing. The game’s “police procedural” tagline used to conjure images of procedural generation for a lot of people for some reason. As a result, for the purposes…

ByVal Hull
OnMarch 10, 2018

Drew Karpyshyn Leaves BioWare (Again)

Drew Karpyshyn, one of BioWare’s more renowned writers who was the lead on the original Mass Effect and did some work on Star Wars: The Old Republic, has announced his second departure from the game-making studio. For the record, back…

ByVal Hull
OnMarch 10, 2018

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Patch v1.3.1 Released

The sizable v1.3.1 patch for Warhorse Studios’ historical RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance is here with a plenty of fixes, tweaks and improvements. For starters, the patch adds a Save & Quit feature and makes saving the game more reliable overall.…

ByVal Hull
OnMarch 10, 2018

Bethesda Game Studios Expands with New Austin Office

BattleCry Studios, a team of Austin, Texas-based developers that was originally founded as a subsidiary of ZeniMax Media has been rebranded as Bethesda Game Studios Austin in order to help realize Bethesda’s growing “vision, scale and ambitions.” I guess this…

ByVal Hull
OnMarch 10, 2018

Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr Video Interview

Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr, an upcoming action-RPG from NeocoreGames, is getting ready to leave Early Access. And in order to bring some attention to that, the developers are now showing their game off to the media, starting with a…

ByVal Hull
OnMarch 9, 2018

Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear Released on Google Play and the App Store

If you own an Android or iOS tablet, you can now purchase Beamdog’s Baldur’s Gate interquel, Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear, from Google Play or the App Store and experience the newest Infinity Engine adventure on the go. According to…

ByVal Hull
OnMarch 9, 2018

Dishonored: Death of the Outsider Interview

If you’re curious to know why Arkane Studios’ Dishonored: Death of the Outsider was released as a standalone title and not as a Dishonored 2 DLC, you can check out this PC Gamer interview with the game’s lead designer Dinga…