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.

The Mage’s Tale Accolades Trailer

inXile’s virtual reality-based RPG, The Mage’s Tale, has launched to some praise from VR-centric outlets, and is currently the #1 seller on the Oculus Store. In response to this, the folks at inXile have rounded up a bunch of favorable…

PC Gamer’s Favorite Sidequests

A new PC Gamer feature lists their favorite sidequests, and while it is far from comprehensive and mostly covers quests from third- and first-person action RPGs, it does feature quests from Baldur’s Gate II, Pillars of Eternity, The Witcher 3,…

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem Update #57

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem, an open world Hack ‘n’ Slash action-RPG by SolarFall Games has reached version 0.5, according to the game’s Kickstarter page. This, rather sizable, new update drastically changes the game’s world map and adds new quests, monsters,…

ELEX E3 2017 Coverage

ELEX, an action-RPG from Piranha Bytes, has received some attention during this E3. To begin, there are twelve minutes of raw gameplay footage, brought to us by World of Elex: Then, there’s an NVIDIA interview with the game’s producer, Michael…

BattleTech Update #41

The Backer Beta is well under way for Harebrained Schemes’ BattleTech. The latest Kickstarter update reflects this and offers a recap of all the coverage the game’s been receiving since the Beta began. We’ve previously covered most of the articles…

System Shock Remastered Edition Update #34

Nightdive Studios’ System Shock didn’t have an official showing at E3 this year but a few of the Nightdive devs did attend the expo, and in a new Kickstarter update they tell us all about it. Nightdive’s Jason Fader also…

Pathfinder: Kingmaker Update #13, $491,692 and Counting

Pathfinder: Kingmaker’s Creative Director Alexander Mishulin talks about exploration in the latest Kickstarter update. Kingmaker allows you to freely explore the game map, packed with hidden locations and random encounters that, from the sound of it, resemble those from the…

Brian Fargo on IGN Unfiltered, Part 2

The second part of Brian Fargo’s IGN Unfiltered interview is now live. The veteran developer talks about the good old days, the origins of Black Isle Studios, and his experiences working with Nintendo and Blizzard, among other things. Check it…