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 New Boss Fight and Item Preview

The recent announcement of the upcoming War for the Atlas expansion for Path of Exile revealed a lot of new encounters and items, and now we get to see and read a bit more about a couple of those. First,…

Dauntless Upcoming Progression Changes Detailed

Phoenix Labs, the developers of Dauntless, a Monster Hunter-like action-RPG currently in Early Access, are moving away from frequent stability updates and are instead focusing their attention on the major Sharpen Your Skills update that should go live in December.…

On the Secret Smallness of Skyrim

This Eurogamer article talks about how open-world games, and Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skirym in particular, through their clever use of geometry, level design, and atmosphere manage to seem much larger than they actually are. There are also a…

Unknown Realm: The Siege Perilous Update #29

Roughly two and a half months after the previous update for the old-school RPG Unknown Realm: The Siege Perilous has gone up, we finally get a new one. And if you were worried that the prolonged silence was an indicator…

Remembering Mass Effect Ten Years On

Over at PC Gamer, the prolific RPG scholar Richard Cobbett looks back at BioWare’s Mass Effect series and tries to analyze what worked there and what didn’t, ultimately coming to a conclusion that even for all its flaws, Mass Effect…

Pathfinder Adventures Patch 1.2.8.5 Live

A new patch for Obsidian Entertainment’s digital card game Pathfinder Adventures is now live. The patch fixes several progression-breaking bugs and some card- and character-related issues, while also adding a brand new set of Asmodee Digital dice. You can check…

SpellForce III Free Preview Weekend on Steam

The recent trailer for THQ Nordic and Grimlore Games’ RTS/RPG hybrid SpellForce III showcased the game’s human faction, and now, thanks to a free preview weekend on Steam, you can try your hand at commanding the humans in battle. Or…