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.

Ni-Oh: Complete Edition Released

Team Ninja’s samurai action-RPG set in a dark fantasy version of the feudal era Japan, Ni-Oh, or rather its Complete Edition, is now available on Steam for $49.99 or your regional equivalent. Now that it’s on PC, the Dark Souls-styled…

Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds Released, Reviews

The Frozen Wilds expansion for Guerrilla Games’ open world action-RPG Horizon Zero Dawn can now be purchased on the PlayStation Store for $19.99, with a 25% discount if you’re subscribed to PS Plus. The expansion allows you to visit the…

Grim Dawn Grim Misadventure #129

The “Grim Misadventures” development updates for Crate Entertainment’s action-RPG Grim Dawn are less frequent now, but that just means that when they are released, they have that much more substance to them. The latest one, for example, outlines the team’s…

Path of Exile Upcoming Events and Announcements

An official announcement on the Path of Exile forums informs us that in a few days we’ll be getting a couple of race-type events that will mark the end of The Fall of Oriath’s first Challenge League. You can read…

The Elder Scrolls: Legends October 2017 Dev Update

Dire Wolf Digital, the developers behind The Elder Scrolls: Legends are trying out the whole transparency thing, and as a result, they’ve started a monthly developer blog. Its first installment goes over the underlying reasons behind the metagame-shifting nerfs and…

Gwent Has Spent The Whole Last Year Getting Good

CD Projekt’s standalone card game Gwent is popular enough to be a burgeoning esport, but what is it exactly that makes people enjoy it? To find out, you might want to check out this Kotaku article that offers a detailed…

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem Update #62

The previous Kickstarter update for SolarFall Games’ Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem introduced us to some of the new features coming to the hack ‘n’ slash RPG in the next major update. And now, we get a preview of all the…

Fallout: New Vegas Revisited

In this retrospective article, PC Gamer looks back at Obsidian’s Fallout: New Vegas and proclaims it the most authentic 3D Fallout game. It’s honestly hard to disagree with this assessment, since for my money, New Vegas is the only 3D…

Path of Exile New Trade Site, Trade Manifesto

I, personally, couldn’t imagine enjoying Grinding Gear Games’ action-RPG Path of Exile as much as I do, without being able to easily purchase the items I need from other players. To do so, previously you had to use third-party websites,…

Runic Games Shuts Down

Runic Games, the developer behind Torchlight and Torchlight II, and more recently the action-adventure Hob, has been shut down by their parent company – Perfect World. An open letter on Runic Games’ website informs us about this, promises some Torchlight-related…