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.

No Truce With the Furies Interview – The Guts of the Game

With its intriguing setting, dialogue-driven combat, and a roleplaying system where having a high attribute score can have negative consequences for your character, No Truce With the Furries is an intriguing project and I welcome any chance to learn more…

Grim Dawn Grim Misadventures #124

The title of the upcoming expansion for Grim Dawn, Ashes of Malmouth, has recently been unveiled, and the latest Grim Misadventure development update talks about its namesake, the fallen city of Malmouth. We learn that it used to be a thriving…

The Secret World’s Investigation Quest Design

A feature article by Angry Duck Gamer takes a look at the most notable part of The Secret World that sets it apart from all the other MMOs on the market – its investigation quests. The article analyzes four of…

Phoenix Point VLOG – Early Character Models

In what seems to be the first in a series of regular developer VLOGs, we’re treated to a tour around the art and animation department of Snapshot Games, during which we get to see how some of the early models…

Alexis Kennedy on Adding Oddness to Dragon Age

Alexis Kennedy, the founder of Failbetter Games and BioWare’s guest writer, made it pretty clear he was working on the yet unannounced Dragon Age 4 in an earlier interview with Eurogamer. Things got pretty quiet after that, until recently, he…

Pathfinder Adventures: Rise of the Goblins DLC Released

Rise of the Goblins, a new piece of DLC for Obsidian Entertainment’s Pathfinder Adventures digital card game is now available on Steam for $8.99 or your regional equivalent (with an additional 33% discount if you pick it up before August…

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Interviews

After being showcased in a recent Fig update, the city of Neketaka, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire’s main hub, has been getting quite a bit of attention. I’ve seen it compared to Athkatla from Baldur’s Gate II, and I would…

Middle-earth: Shadow of War Introducing the Market

Microtransactions in single-player games are not something I’ll ever get behind and as such the recent announcement that Monolith’s Middle-earth: Shadow of War will have them in the form of “the Market” is a disappointing one. What is this Market,…

Path of Exile: The Fall of Oriath Launched

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to play a hack ‘n’ slash action-RPG without going through the same content multiple times before you got to the end game? Well now you don’t have to, because The Fall…