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
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ByVal Hull
OnFebruary 25, 2018

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Interviews

With the April 3, 2018 release of Obsidian’s Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire looming on the horizon, MCV spoke with a couple of people involved in the seafaring RPG’s production. Their first interview is with the game’s design director Josh…

ByVal Hull
OnFebruary 25, 2018

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem Update #73 – Upcoming New Features

The work on SolarFall Games’ action-RPG Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem continues, and according to the latest Kickstarter update, the game will soon have fully animated bows, a new targeting system, and new overkill effects. These additions will be accompanied by…

ByVal Hull
OnFebruary 25, 2018

Biomutant Preview, Interview

Stefan Ljungqvist, Experiment 101’s Head of Studio, presented Biomutant live on stage at the PC Gamer Weekender. And later, during a hands-on preview session, he candidly spoke with WCCFTech about his upcoming furry kung fu action-RPG, its unique setting, mechanics,…

ByVal Hull
OnFebruary 24, 2018

The Worlds of Ultima Retrospective

Namedrop Ultima in a room full of RPG enthusiasts and most of them will start thinking about the virtuous Ultima IV, the outstanding Ultima VII, or the neverending Ultima Online. Very few minds will immediately jump to Savage Empire or…

ByVal Hull
OnFebruary 24, 2018

Mage’s Initiation Update #51 – Voice Acting and Release Window

While Transolar Games’ Adventure/RPG hybrid Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption is looking at a mid-April launch, another Quest for Glory-inspired project, Mage’s Initiation: Reign of the Elements, is currently on track for a Q3-Q4 2018 release, we learn in a new…

ByVal Hull
OnFebruary 24, 2018

Beamdog Livestream Recap – Siege of Dragonspear Coming to Tablets

Phil Daigle is joined by Kristin Warren, Beamdog’s QA Lead, for this week’s developer livestream. The two of them announce that Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear will be getting a tablet version soon and because of that, Beamdog is currently…

ByVal Hull
OnFebruary 24, 2018

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Update #45

The main attraction of the latest Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Fig update is a six-minute video where Katrina Garsten and Josh Sawyer’s puppet alter egos talk about sailing the Deadfire Archipelago. Exploration and random events, crew management, naval combat,…

ByVal Hull
OnFebruary 23, 2018

Kingdom Come: Deliverance – A Violent Mission to Find Some Boots

Open-world games, like the recently released Kingdom Come: Deliverance, can serve as great vessels for emergent gameplay, as we can see in this PC Gamer article that documents one player’s cunning plan-filled journey to find a pair of new boots…

ByVal Hull
OnFebruary 23, 2018

Dungeons & Dragons Online – Discoveries of a Returning Player

Mists of Ravenloft, the recently released expansion for Standing Stone Games’ Dungeons & Dragons Online, makes now a great time to revisit this twelve year old fantasy MMO, or even just try it out for the first time. And to…

ByVal Hull
OnFebruary 23, 2018

Ultima Online – The Life of the Grandma Guildmaster

Back in the day, MMOs were synonymous with social experiences. If you wanted to play an online game, you had to interact with that game’s community, form connections, friendships, and the inevitable rivalries. Lately, however, a great deal of MMO…