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.

Pyre Has the Potential for a Sequel

Supergiant Games, the indie studio known for Bastion, Transistor, and now Pyre, has a track record of not making sequels for their games. And hoping that this streak breaks at some point, this Hey Poor Player feature delves deep into…

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Preview

With slightly over a month until Warhorse Studios’ historical RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance launches on February 13th, we get this preview from PC Gamer that focuses on the joy of being a nobody in an RPG, the unceremonious and clumsy…

Monster Hunter: World Preview and Interview

Having played a bit of Capcom’s upcoming Monster Hunter: World, GameCentral, the video game branch of Metro.co.uk, offers a hands-on preview and an interview with the game’s producer Ryozo Tsujimoto. The preview makes Monster Hunter: World sound quite intriguing –…

Neverwinter “Swords of Chult” Update Live on Consoles

The Swords of Chult update for Perfect World and Cryptic Studios’ action-oriented MMORPG Neverwinter has finally made its way to Xbox One and PlayStation 4, bringing along a new dynamic end-game Skirmish, adjustments to the PvP system, and a slew…

Path of Exile – Designing the Elder Uniques

Grinding Gear Games, the developers of Path of Exile, are pretty open with how and why they do what they do. This leads to plenty of development blog posts that revolve around various features they implement into their constantly evolving…

World of Warcraft: Legion Patch 7.3.5 Preview

World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion will be getting its last major update when the 7.3.5 patch goes live. According to this PCGamesN patch preview article, this should happen around early February, 2018 and bring some new content, along with a…

Grim Dawn Grim Misadventure #131

In the first Grim Misadventure of the year, the folks at Crate Entertainment look back at the results of their continued support for their action-RPG Grim Dawn throughout 2017. The list is quite impressive and includes six major patches and…

Rumor: Fable IV Being Developed by Playground Games

A while back, we speculated that the unannounced open-world action-RPG from Playground Games of Forza Horizon fame might end up being a new Fable title. And if the currently circulating rumors are to be believed, we were correct there. According…