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.

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen Newsletters, Pre-Alpha Available

If you’ve been following the development of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, Visionary Realms’ upcoming MMO that promises challenging content, meaningful character progression, and compelling social and group-oriented gameplay, you’ll be pleased to know that the game has recently launched…

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Developer Blog – Sturgia

The latest post on Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord’s developer blog describes the kingdom of Sturgia, one of Bannerlord’s major factions, heavily inspired by Slavic and Norse cultures. If snowy forests, disciplined infantry, pillaging and commerce are on the list…

Path of Exile – What’s Next?

The folks at Grinding Gear Games have recently launched the War for the Atlas expansion for their action-RPG Path of Exile. With that done, they’re now thinking about taking a much deserved holiday break before launching into full development of…

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem Update #66

The upcoming 0.5.0.4 update for SolarFall Games’ hack ‘n’ slash RPG Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem will introduce firearms and the ability to pair them both with other firearms and melee weapons, as well as a new player “build” they call…

SpellForce III Reviews and Updates

Would you like to check out some fresh reviews for Grimlore Games and THQ Nordic’s RTS/RPG threequel SpellForce III? Of course you would. Especially considering that for the most part they’re quite positive, just a tad shy of glowing, albeit…

Thea 2: The Shattering Update #17

The latest Kickstarter update for MuHa Games’ 4X/RPG/CCG hybrid Thea 2: The Shattering combines holiday well-wishes with a development update. We get a Christmas card, a few paragraphs on development progress, and a new god reveal video. Let’s start with…