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.

Path of Exile: Bestiary League Announced

Launching March 2, 2018, the next major update for Grinding Gear Games’ action-RPG Path of Exile is going to kick off the Bestiary Challenge League that has enough new features to be considered an expansion. This new league will allow…

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Developer Blog – Empire, Part 2

Last week’s Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord developer blog introduced us to the Empire, the game’s largest major faction, and its politics, warring sub-factions and notable personalities. And this time around, we’re told about Empire’s preferred military composition, its varied…

The Making of Monster Hunter: World, Part Four: Taking on the World

The fourth and final part of Monster Hunter: World’s making-of documentary series focuses on the anxiety-inducing challenges of bringing a predominantly Japanese franchise to the Western markets with a simultaneous global release. The efforts of Capcom’s localisation team that had…

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Video Update – Release

With Kingdom Come: Deliverance released and, according to Steam Charts, doing fairly well for itself, the game’s creative director Daniel Vávra brings us a video update that looks back at the game’s development and offers a bunch of stats that…

Call of Cthulhu – Preview, Interview, and Gameplay Footage

Cyanide’s upcoming Call of Cthulhu is attempting to combine roleplaying and investigative elements, and going by the latest previews, it may be succeeding at doing so. For example, here’s four minutes of fresh Call of Cthulhu gameplay, courtesy of the…

GreedFall Previews

The developers from Spiders, the studio behind Mars: War Logs and The Technomancer, were showcasing their upcoming colonial era meets fantasy action-RPG GreedFall during the recent “Le What’s Next De Focus” French press event, on account of it being published…

The Banner Saga 3 “The Dredge” Trailer

Expressionless and unrelenting, led in the past by the immortal Bellower and the shapeshifting Eyeless, The Banner Saga’s Dredge are a formidable foe with their fair share of mysteries and not just simple stone zombies you slay by the dozen…