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.

ELEX Interview

The folks at WCCF Tech have recently talked to Amadeus Weidmann, Game Designer at Piranha Bytes, on the subject of ELEX, Piranha Bytes’ upcoming action-RPG. Jetpacks, game systems and mechanics, romance – the interview covers them all. And then, it…

The New World Update #19

The latest development update for Iron Tower Studio’s colony ship RPG The New World talks about the mutated inhabitants of the ship. We get a bit of a history lesson that explains the mutants’ backstory and their culture, and then…

Pathfinder: Kingmaker Interview

Pathfinder: Kingmaker will be the first major role-playing title based on the Pathfinder RPG ruleset to grace our PCs, and given the game’s successful Kickstarter campaign that raised nearly double the targeted pledge dollars, its close partnership with ruleset creator…

No Truce With the Furies Interview

No Truce With the Furies, a police procedural RPG from ZA/UM Studio is being published by Humble Bundle, and to help promote the game, the folks at Humble Bundle have set up an interview with ZA/UM’s writing team at ComicBook.com.…

Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire Released

After teasing us with the launch trailer, the folks at ArenaNet have released the Path of Fire expansion for Guild of Wars 2 right on schedule, just in time for the game’s fifth anniversary. This expansion introduces mounts into the…

South Park: The Fractured but Whole Goes Gold

South Park: The Fractured but Whole has officially gone gold, meaning that the currently announced October 17th release date is likely to be the actual release date, and the game won’t be delayed again. And to make us aware of…

Josh Sawyer on Fallout: New Vegas

In a recent interview with IGN Expert Mode, Obsidian Entertainment’s Josh Sawyer talked about Fallout: New Vegas, and its Van Burren roots, and while there isn’t a lot of new information there, we do get to learn the Josh was…

Divinity: Original Sin Reviews, Part 2

Another batch of reviews for Divinity: Original Sin II has popped up since we last checked, and these ones are even more glowing than the previous, already highly positive ones. If ten or even five years ago someone had told…