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.

BioWare Announces Anthem

BioWare’s latest role-playing game has been revealed during EA’s E3 event. Very little is known about it so far, apart from the title Anthem, a preliminary release date in Fall 2018, and a very brief description that invites the players…

Vince D. Weller Interview

The folks at RPGNuke, a Russian RPG-focused website, have recently interviewed Iron Tower Studio’s Vince D. Weller. The interview starts with a couple of general questions about the RPG scene and Vince’s personal gaming habits; it then moves to the…

Pathfinder: Kingmaker Update #3, $343,894 and Counting

The latest Kickstarter Update for Pathfinder: Kingmaker mostly consists of a video where Owlcat Games’ Creative Director Alexander Mishulin talks about the game’s kingdom-building features. We are promised a lot of freedom of choice, and plenty of stats like economy,…

PC Gamer’s RPG Dream Team

The editors at PC Gamer have put together a list of the best, in their opinion, RPG companions. The result is quite an eclectic bunch that goes from Morte to HK-47, to the beast of burden donkey from Dungeon Siege.…

Dauntless Reveals a New Behemoth

Dauntless, an upcoming F2P action-RPG, flaunts a new addition to their Behemoth roster. Joining the previously announced Behemoths, Pangar and Embermane, Drask is a lightning-based lizard creature. Its page on the official Dauntless website has quite a few pieces of…

Pathfinder: Kingmaker Update #2, $315,788 and Counting

The second Kickstarter update for Owlcat Games’ Pathfinder: Kingmaker explains the upcoming game’s character building mechanics and its highly customizable difficulty settings. Here’s an excerpt: We wish to make it possible for you to create and develop characters fitting as…

Middle-earth: Shadow of War New Story Trailer

A new story trailer for Middle-earth: Shadow of War has been revealed. It offers three minutes of footage that features a host of new allies, villains, and creatures The Bright Lord can encounter in the Shadow of Mordor’s sequel. Have…

Phoenix Point Successfully Funded, First Post-funding Update

The Phoenix Point Fig campaign is now officially over, with $765,948 pledged. Now it’s time for the Slacker Backers to pitch in, if they want to make the second, $850,000 stretch goal a reality. The project’s first post-funding update outlines Snapshot…