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.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Interview – Realism and Quicksaving

Warhorse Studios’ Tobias Stolz-Zwilling has recently spoken with VG247 about Kingdom Come: Deliverance, the game’s journey from a mere concept to a wildly successful Kickstarter project, and how it strives to be as realistic as possible, at times even sacrificing…

Starpoint Gemini Warlords Content Update 1.600

A new content update is now available on Steam for Little Green Men Games’ 4X/RPG Starpoint Gemini Warlords. The update offers an overhauled interface for those playing the game in 4K resolution, adds two classic ships from Starpoint Gemini 2,…

Path of Exile The Abyss Challenge League Detailed

On December 8, 2017, alongside with the War for the Atlas expansion and the 3.1.0 update, Path of Exile will kick off The Abyss challenge league. This post on Grinding Gear Games’ official website outlines the features of this new…

Seven: The Days Long Gone Sneaking Trailer

We’ve recently had the chance to see what traversal and movement abilities we’ll have at our disposal in Fool’s Theory and IMGN.PRO’s stealthy isometric RPG Seven: The Days Long Gone. And now a new trailer, that advertises that there’s always…

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Developer Blog Q&A

The latest in-house developer Q&A for TaleWorlds Entertainment’s upcoming sandbox RPG Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is focused on Ümit Singil, one of the veteran TaleWorlds developers who was involved in a great deal of things over the years and…

SpellForce III The Elves of Finon Mir Faction Trailer

The latest faction trailer for THQ Nordic and Grimlore Games’ upcoming RPG/RTS hybrid SpellForce III shows off the tropical elven capital of Finon Mir and a settlement of their rebellious cousins, providing a lore reason for elf vs elf battles.…

The Lord of the Rings Online – A Look Ahead

When Turbine was repurposed as a mobile game developer, some of the studio’s talent banded together to create Standing Stone Games in order too keep working on Dungeons & Dragons Online and The Lord of the Rings Online. And now…

Gwent: Thronebreaker Campaign Delayed

An open letter from CD Projekt RED’s co-founder Marcin Iwiński informs us that the single-player Thronebreaker campaign for Gwent, that was initially expected to launch this year, has been delayed to somewhere in 2018, and that the team will be…

Marvel Heroes Shutting Down Earlier Than Expected

We recently got word that Gazillion Entertainment’s MMO Marvel Heroes will be shutting down at the end of this year, but now Massively Overpowered reports that the servers will be shut down significantly sooner, this coming Friday to be precise, coinciding…

Remembering Dark Messiah of Might and Magic

Arkane Studios is known for their immersive sims these days, thanks to Dishonored and Prey, but way before that, the French studio brought us Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, a curious action game with some RPG elements and a…