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.

XCOM 2: War of the Chosen The Assassin Detailed

The Chosen in the War of the Chosen expansion for XCOM 2 are the elite alien troops you’ll be facing throughout the campaign. One of these Chosen, called simply The Assassin is given a spotlight and a raspy voice in…

The Mage’s Tale Released, Reviews

If you own an Oculus Touch headset, you’ll be delighted to know that InXile’s VR RPG, The Mage’s Tale, has been released on schedule. Featuring exploration, puzzles, and combat, The Mage’s Tale offers roughly 10 hours of dungeon crawling gameplay.…

Path of Exile E3 2017 Coverage, Beta Update

Path of Exile: The Fall of Oriath has made an appearance at E3 2017 and now the folks at Grinding Gear Games are kind enough to round up all the coverage on their official forums. And while a lot of…

Richard Cobbett on Shared Universes

Richard Cobbett spends the majority of his latest RPG Scrollbars column talking about all the times video games, and RPGs in particular, made neat little references to one another, and how in this day and age of shared universes, this…

Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson Court Released

The Crimson Court, the first expansion for Red Hook Studios’ Darkest Dungeon, is now available on Steam for $9.99 or your regional equivalent. The expansion is promised to hit GOG.com and other distribution platforms at a later date, so you…

Moonstone: A Hard Day’s Knight Remake in the Works

Moonstone: A Hard Day’s Knight is a game that’s considered to be one of the forefathers of the action RPG genre, and its original creator, Rob Anderson, is apparently remaking the title in Unity. The first details are available in…

Richard Cobbett on the Lack of Urban Fantasy Games

A few days ago, Richard Cobbett talked about the lack of games with an urban fantasy setting in his RPG Scrollbars column. He listed several reasons as to why the urban fantasy subgenre is a great fit for an RPG,…

Dark Souls – Architecture of an Eternally Dying Land

I’ve read a lot of Dark Souls-related articles over the years. Some of them were quite insightful, others a bit more far-fetched. But regardless of their merit, the sheer amount of editorial content that series sparks just goes to show…