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.

BattleTech Post-funding Update #36

The latest post-funding update for Harebrained Schemes’ BattleTech isn’t exactly a bearer of great news. It announces that the Backer Beta, previously promised to launch on March 15, 2017, was delayed. A Unity update, as well as outdated development infrastructure…

Torment: Tides of Numenera Beginner Advice

This article on GameRevolution describes five essential things one should know before attempting to play Torment: Tides of Numenera. Some of these will be pretty obvious to anyone who played a CRPG before, while others can actually save you some…

Telepath Tactics New Engine in Development

Telepath Tactics, an indie strategy RPG, is currently in the process of receiving a significant update to its engine, according to an official post on the game’s Steam page. This new engine is going to be a basis of an…

Forged of Blood Kickstarter Campaign Launched

Forged of Blood, a tactical turn-based RPG that’s been in development for some time already and is currently in a pre-alpha state, has launched a sixty-day Kickstarted campaign. This campaign is aimed at collecting some additional funds to deliver a…

Dauntless’ Guilds Preview

There’s some new information on the guild system in the upcoming cooperative F2P action-RPG, Dauntless. In short, guilds will offer beneficial perks for their members, provided those members participate in the day-to-day guild activity. How exactly this will work and…

The Banner Saga 3 Updates, #353,080 and Counting

The Banner Saga 3 is in the last three days of its Kickstarter campaign. With some time still left for the final push, the penultimate stretch goal of $350,000 has been reached. This means Ubin, the Scrivener will return for…

Planescape: Torment & Torment: Tides of Numenera Connections

With the long-awaited release of Torment: Tides of Numenera finally upon us, GOG has an interview with Colin McComb and Adam Heine, talking about the connections and parallels between the new game and its glorious predecessor. An excerpt: Let’s start…

Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn Retrospective

Gulf News’ Game Masters column has a retrospective of everyone’s beloved Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn. The game definitely deserves all the attention it continues to get, even considering that its original release happened back in the year 2000.…

No Truce With the Furies Preview

No Truce With the Furies is an upcoming police-procedural RPG with an incredibly intriguing role-playing system. So far, most of what we know about the game came from the official developer blog. The folks at RPG Codex decided to remedy…

System Shock Remake Update #29, Pre-Alpha Trailer

The great announcement promised in the previous update for Nightdive Studios’ System Shock is here, and it is great indeed. The game, rather sneakily, moved away from Unity Engine and onto Unreal Engine 4. And while the reason given is…