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.

Tower of Time Previews

Tower of Time, a party-based RPG/RTS hybrid by Event Horizon, has recently launched into Steam Early Access. If its promise of small-scale RTS combat elevated to the next level by RPG elements, exploration, loot, and crafting sounds alluring to you,…

Path of Exile 3.0.0 – The Fall of Oriath Patch Notes

With two days left before The Fall of Oriath expansion for Path of Exile releases on August 4th, we get the complete patch notes that cover everything that’s getting tweaked or changed there. I’m saying everything not to sound vague,…

XCOM 2: War of the Chosen The Lost Inside Look

Apart from the resistance factions and the Chosen themselves, the War of the Chosen expansion for XCOM 2 will also introduce a relentless new type of enemy hostile to anyone they see – the Lost. The Lost are former humans…

Divinity: Original Sin II Update #41

We are now less than a month and a half away from the planned September 14th release date for Divinity: Original Sin II. The folks at Larian Studios are busy with the finishing touches and they expect the next major…

Mass Effect: Andromeda Update 1.10

A post on the official BioWare blog outlines the changes the 1.10 Update brings to Mass Effect: Andromeda. These changes are relatively few in number and just fix a number of multiplayer-related issues and tweak the balance a bit. Here…

Secret World Legends Available on Steam

Funcom’s attempt at giving The Secret World a second lease at life, by relaunching it as a free-to-play title Secret World Legends, is finally available on Steam. If you waited for a hassle-free chance to jump into the game –…

Bob Clardy Interview, Part 3 – Matt Chat

The latest episode of Matt Barton’s Matt Chat series once again features Bob Clardy. This time around he talks about such games like Spirit of Excalibur and J.R.R. Tolkien’s War in Middle Earth, the early days of video game publishing,…

Grim Dawn: Ashes of Malmouth Expansion Officially Announced

All the latest Grim Dawn development updates revolved around the upcoming expansion for the game, and now we finally know its official title – Grim Dawn: Ashes of Malmouth. This has been revealed during a recent developer livestream that, together…

Dark and Light Upcoming Updates, The Archos Herald

Dark and Light, a survival RPG by Snail Games, has launched into Steam Early Access recently and that went about as well as one might expect. Players were reporting long loading times, poor performance, and an abundance of bugs. The…