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.

Forged of Blood Spellcrafting System Preview

While I’ve never enjoyed actual crafting in games, the concept of spellcrafting has always been appealing to me for some reason. As such, this brief preview of Forged of Blood’s spellcrafting system with its “6 different ‘Primordials,’ 8 Effects for…

Grim Dawn: Ashes of Malmouth Expansion Released

If you’re a fan of hack ‘n’ slash action-RPGs, you’ll be pleased to know that you can now pick up the Ashes of Malmouth expansion for Crate Entertainment’s Grim Dawn on both Steam and GOG for $17.99 or your regional…

ELEX 2016 vs 2017 Visuals Comparison

October 17, 2017 will mark the release of Piranha Bytes’ action-RPG ELEX, and to show us the progress they’ve made on the game over the last year, the folks at Piranha Bytes have released a short video that compares ELEX’s…

Ash of Gods Interview

EnklawaNetwork, a Polish website, has recently spoken with Sergei Bokarev and Anton Bazhenov, a couple of developers from AurumDust Studio, about their upcoming Banner Saga-like RPG Ash of Gods. The interview, available in English courtesy of EnklawaNetwork, covers such topics…

A CRPG Novice’s Take on Divinity: Original Sin II

GameSpot’s editors have recently posed a question – should Larian Studios’ Divinity: Original Sin II be your first proper cRPG? In response (or perhaps coincidentally), the folks at PCGamesN had one of their own editors, without much prior cRPG experience, play through…

Rune: Ragnarok Interview

We’ve heard very little about Human Head Studios’ upcoming open world action-RPG Rune: Ragnarok since its initial announcement, and so the good folks over at WCCFTech have decided to remedy that and have a chat with the game’s project director…