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.

Empyre: Lords of the Sea Gates Features Explained

A series of official forum posts shed some light on the combat, the setting, and the music of Empyre: Lords of the Sea Gates, an upcoming Neo-Victorian isometric RPG. Here’s the gist of it: the combat will be of the…

Path of Exile Launches in China

China’s gaming market has its own ecosystem and I won’t even pretend to know how it works. Still, even I’ve heard about Tencent, the Chinese media giant. They’re the ones who Grinding Gear Games have partnered with to bring Path…

Conan Exiles to be Published by Koch Media on Release

When Funcom’s survival RPG Conan Exiles leaves Early Access in early 2018, Koch Media will be handling the publishing side of business, namely bringing the physical retail version of Conan Exiles to the stores. With Funcom and Koch Media having…

Biomutant Announcement Trailer, Features Revealed

Just as we expected, the recent ad slip up that unveiled Biomutant, an open-world Kung-Fu fable action-RPG from THQ Nordic and Experiment 101, to the public has prompted the developers to open up about the specifics of what exactly Biomutant…

Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar Review

Felipe Pepe, the man behind the excellent CRPG Book, has managed to finish Cleve Blakemore’s Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar after roughly 80 hours, way ahead of the advertised 600. He then penned a comprehensive review, mentioning both the…

Middle-earth: Shadow of War Monsters of Mordor Trailer

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Mordor is not a very hospitable place. Apart from the constantly warring Orc tribes, it is also inhabited by a great assortment of angry spirits, monsters, and demons. All these less conventional foes are on display in the…

Mass Effect: Andromeda No Future Single-player Patches Planned

The recently released 1.10 update for Mass Effect: Andromeda was the game’s final single-player related patch, we learn from an official BioWare announcement. And while the team will still be working on additional multiplayer content and APEX missions, the single-player…

The New World Interview

Vince D. Weller, or Vault Dweller if you prefer, has recently participated in an interview with a Russian gaming website GoHa.ru. The interview mostly focused on Iron Tower Studio’s current project – The New World, and Vince’s take on RPG…

The Iron Oath Updates, $32,365 and Counting

With 19 more days to go, the Kickstarter campaign for The Iron Oath sits at roughly $32,000 with the initial goal set at $45,000. By now it seems more than likely that this campaign will be a success, so it’s…

Monster Hunter: World Wildspire Waste Trailer

A new trailer for the upcoming Monster Hunter: World, the latest entry in the Monster Hunter series of action-RPGs, shows off the Wildspire Waste – an impressive-looking desert area where you get to fight all kinds of weird monsters, and…