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.

How MMOs Can Escape Their Creative Slump

An editorial on PC Gamer tries to come up with ideas that could revitalize the slumping MMO genre. Their proposed solution is to embrace the mundane, and take notes from sandbox games filled with emergent gameplay, like EVE Online. Here’s…

Torment: Tides of Numenera Content Update

The latest post-funding Kickstarter update for InXile’s Torment: Tides of Numenera informs us that some of the previously cut content is now back in the game. In particular, the Voluminous Codex lore compendium, and Oom, the blob companion. The update…

Tim Lang on How to Be a Level Designer

Matt Barton is back with another episode of his Matt Chat series, featuring Tim Lang. In this segment of the interview, Mr. Lang talks about good level design and working as a team to create a polished experience, among other…

Why didn’t Tyranny Sell? PDXCON Report

Several of the Paradox Interactive’s executives have spoken during the recent PDXCON about their collaboration with Obsidian. Thanks to PCGamesN we have an abridged version that fills us in on the details. Tyranny’s subpar sales were the main topic. They…

Richard Cobbett on Video Game-Themed Food

If you’re in a mood for some light-hearted riffing on the easy target of culinary video game tie-ins, Richard Cobbett’s latest RPG Scrollbars column does exactly that. So, if you want to read a bit about World of Warcraft or Heartstone…

Path of Exile: The Fall of Oriath – Changes to The Labyrinth

With The Fall of Oriath expansion drastically changing Path of Exile’s progression, an obvious question is how this change will affect the Ascendancy perks. Previously, these perk points that allowed you to specialize your characters were tied to completing The…

Grim Dawn Grim Misadventures #118

The Coven of Ugdenbog is one of four new factions in the upcoming expansion for Crate Entertainment’s action-RPG Grim Dawn. It is the subject of the latest installment of Grim Misadventures, the ongoing series of Grim Dawn’s development updates. Apart…