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.

EverQuest Retrospective

These days when playing an MMO, you can look up pretty much anything. Quests, skills, game mechanics, it’s all just a quick search away. But back in the day, you had to figure all that stuff out for yourself. And…

Steelrising Reviews

Spiders Studio’s Dark Souls-inspired steampunk action-RPG Steelrising launched last week. And if you’d like to know more about this fairly experimental project for the studio usually specializing in BioWare-style games, you can now find a number of reviews below: IGN…

Elden Ring Composer Interview

While for me, Elden Ring’s soundtrack is essentially just barely-noticeable background noise, there are those who actually enjoy all that moody plinking and the distant howling that accompanies it. And if you find yourself among those people, you’ll be happy…

Cyberpunk 2077 Gets Official Mod Support

If you like open-world RPGs, chances are you also like using mods to fine-tune those games to your liking or experience some wacky user-made content. And if that’s the case, you’ll be pleased to learn that CD Projekt now offers…

Tom Clancy’s The Division News and Reveals

The recent Ubisoft Forward event brought us some news about the studio’s series of third-person shooters with RPG elements Tom Clancy’s The Division. The big item there was the studio’s continued support for Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, as well…

Icewind Dale II – Matt Chat

When Icewind Dale II originally launched back in 2002, and it was using the 3rd Edition of Dungeons & Dragons, it felt like the future. And now, 20 years later, it still remains a solid example of a combat-focused party-based…