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.

Vaporum New Rig Design, Difficulty Survey, Patch #1

The folks over at Fatbot Games have recently released a pretty important patch for their steampunk dungeon crawler Vaporum. The patch addresses two of the game’s bigest issues if you’re prone to motion sickness – the limited Field of View…

Middle-earth: Shadow of War Released

Middle-earth: Shadow of War, an open world action-RPG from Monolith and WB Games based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, is now available for purchase on Steam. A sequel to 2014’s Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Shadow of War…

Swen Vincke Interview

A new interview with Larian Studios’ Swen Vincke has popped up on PC Gamer. It goes over the higher-than-expected sales of Larian’s latest RPG Divinity: Original Sin II, the burgeoning modding scene and speedrunning community for that game, and Larian’s…

Thea 2: The Shattering Updates, £43,320 and Counting

With 7 days to go and £43,320 pledged, even the first, £60,000 stretch goal seems slightly out of reach for Thea 2: The Shattering’s Kickstarter campaign. Still, I’ve been surprised by Kickstarter campaigns before, and perhaps the announcement of a…

Monster Hunter: World Video Interview

This Gamereactor interview from this year’s Gamescom took its time, but now that it’s here, we get to see Monster Hunter: World’s executive director Kaname Fujioka and producer Ryozo Tsujimoto talk about their upcoming game. We learn that the game…

Expeditions: Viking Version 1.0.7 Available for Testing

Update 1.0.7 for Logic Artists’ viking-themed RPG Expeditions: Viking is now available on Steam’s beta branch, allowing you to try this new update before it’s officially released. The update introduces the Ironman mode, updates the game’s engine, and adds the…

The Iron Oath Update #25

You can learn a bit about the world we’ll be exploring in Curious Panda’s upcoming gritty tactical RPG The Iron Oath in this new Kickstarter update. There, we’re treated to a rendition of The Iron Oath’s world map, get a…

Divinity: Original Sin II Interview on Mod Tools

Larian Studios’ Kevin Van Nerum has talked to Rock, Paper, Shotgun about the mod tools for Larian’s recently released RPG Divinity: Original Sin II. If you’re curious in how modding in Original Sin II works, what makes it a good…