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.

Prey Reviews

The reviews for Arkane Studios’ Prey are finally leaving their ‘in-progress’ state, so we offer you a new batch. This time, including some widely-known outlets. Have a look: PC Gamer – 79/100: Unfortunately, some sidequests don’t quite land, and for…

Expeditions: Viking Patch 1.0.3 Released

The 1.0.3 patch for Expeditions: Viking fixes a whole lot of issues, just as promised. The general and quest fixes are quite numerous, to the point of it not being practical to include them here. However, the patch has a…

Mass Effect: Andromeda Patch 1.06 Released

A new patch for BioWare’s Mass Efect: Andromeda is now available. It deals with a number of issues in both singleplayer and multiplayer. While the multiplayer changes are mostly focused on tinkering with the combat balance, the singleplayer ones are…

Phoenix Point Updates, $588,327 and Counting

The regular updates for the Phoenix Point Fig campaign continue to follow the established pattern: some concept art, a short story, and maybe an announcement. In that vein, update #9 introduced The Claimed Idol story, and talked a bit about…

Thea: The Awakening Console Release Date

Originally released for the PC, Thea: The Awakening combined elements of a 4X strategy, a card game, and narrative-driven village management, with some RPG flavor sprinkled on top of it all. As announced on the official developer blog, the game…

How Nightdive Studios Brought Back System Shock

A feature article on GameInformer takes a detailed look at how a small indie team, Nightdive Studios, has managed to acquire the rights to the System Shock franchise. What started as just a desire to play System Shock 2 on…

Secret World Legends Launch Date Announced

We now know the launch date for Secret World Legends. This reimagining of Funcom’s supernatural MMO, The Secret World, as a free-to-play shared world RPG is coming to Steam on June 26, 2017. It promises to put more focus on…

Divinity: Original Sin II Update #36 – Game Master Mode

One of the stretch goals during the Kickstarter campaign for Larian’s Divinity: Original Sin II was a so-called Game Master Mode. The latest Kickstarter update brings us up to speed on that. Reminiscent of the module editor for Neverwinter Nights,…