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: War for the Atlas Expansion Released

Action-RPG enthusiasts rejoice! The War for the Atlas expansion for Grinding Gear Games’ Path of Exile is now available on PC, with its 32 new end-game maps, new bosses, skill gems and challenges. There’s also the Abyss challenge league that,…

Overlooked RPGs That Are Worth Playing Today

Over at PC Gamer you can find this list of overlooked RPGs that includes plenty of JRPGs and games that can be considered RPGs only in a very broad sense, but even so, there are quite a few titles there…

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem Update #65

The latest Kickstarter update for SolarFall Games’ Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem introduces us to the upcoming changes to the game’s attributes and shows off the new and improved character sheet. Both of these new features are aimed at making the…

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Developer Blog Q&A

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord’s multiplayer will be powered by dedicated servers. So, in this week’s in-house developer Q&A, TaleWorlds Entertainment’s software engineer Koray Kıyakoğlu tells us what he’s doing in order to make Bannerlord’s multiplayer a smooth and stable…

Demons Age Released

Demons Age, a “classical Role-playing game, designed to be a modern successor of grate classic videogames” from Bigmoon Studios, has made its way to both Steam and Xbox One. If you’re a fan of “grate” RPGs and are not easily…

SpellForce III Released, Reviews

You can now purchase SpellForce III, the RTS/RPG prequel to 2003’s SpellForce: The Order of Dawn from Grimlore Games and THQ Nordic on both Steam and GOG for $49.99 or your regional equivalent. In SpellForce III you will participate in…

Two Worlds II: Echoes of the Dark Past DLC Available

A while back, we were promised two new pieces of DLC for Reality Pump Studios’ action-RPG Two Worlds II – Call of the Tenebrae and Shattered Embrace. But now, without much fanfare, another piece of DLC entitled Echoes of the…

How Isometric Environments Are Made?

If, like me, you prefer isometric games to their first- or third-person counterparts, this article where Paul Fish, former Obsidian artist now working for InXile Entertainment, talks about the tools and techniques used in creating visually impressive isometric environments might…