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.

Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption – Racing to the Finish Line

Transolar Games’ spiritual successor to the Quest for Glory series of Adventure/RPG hybrids, Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption, is expected to launch somewhere between March 15 and April 15, and going by this developer blog post, unless something goes horribly wrong…

Tower of Time to Leave Early Access in April 2018

Event Horizon’s upcoming RPG with RTS-inspired combat and quite a few Baldur’s Gate and Might & Magic influences, Tower of Time, will be leaving Steam Early Access and getting a full release in April 2018, roughly 9 months after starting…

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Developer Blog Q&A

This week’s Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord developer Q&A is a good one. It features Steve Negus, TaleWorlds Entertainment’s writer and designer who, prior to joining TaleWorlds, used to work as a journalist in Iraq. In his Q&A he talks…

Path of Exile 3.1.2 Patch Notes

Grinding Gear Games’ action-RPG Path of Exile has received a sizable new patch that fixes quite a number of bugs, tweaks some things here and there, and adds several new features. The biggest one among them is the new UI…

Dontnod Presents Vampyr, Episode One: Making Monsters

The first part of the weekly Dontnod Presents Vampyr video series is here. It offers some insights into the developer’s creative process, and tells us a thing or two about Vampyr’s protagonist, doctor-turned-vampire Jonathan Reid, all the while unveiling some…

Kingdom Come: Deliverance PAX South 2018 Coverage

Warhorse Studios’ upcoming historical RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance should be launching in less than a month, on February 13, 2018, and while initially I wasn’t particularly enthused about this title on account of me not being a fan of either…

Underworld Ascendant PAX South 2018 Gameplay Footage

This year’s PAX South brings us some fresh Underworld Ascendant gameplay footage in the form of a two minute long trailer that has a number of Otherside Entertainment’s developers, including Paul Neurath and Warren Spector, talk about their upcoming successor…

Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones Steam Demo Available

Remember the good old days when eldritch horrors roamed the streets and you couldn’t step outside without turning into a pelagic monster of some sort or at the very least blurting out a bunch of incomprehensible gibberish praising the Old…

World of Warcraft: Legion Patch 7.3.5 Available

7.3.5, the final major patch of World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion is here. It brings along new story and PvP content, level-scaling mechanics that allow you to recreate South Park’s iconic “Make Love, Not Warcraft” episode, some low-level rebalancing, and…