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.

The Banner Saga 3 Update #15, $317,686 and Counting

The latest, 15th, Kickstarter update for Stoic’s The Banner Saga 3 offers a nice deal for Twitch Prime and Amazon Prime users: during the February 23-28 and March 2-7 weeks, they’re offering The Banner Saga and The Banner Saga 2…

Leonard Boyarsky Talk: A Life in Video Games

Leonard Boyarsky, who worked at Interplay Entertainment, Troika Games, Blizzard Entertainment, and is currently holding a position of Creative Director at Obsidian Entertainment, gave a talk at SINFO 24, a Tech conference in Portugal. Boyarsky’s segment, called A Life in…

Irrational Games Rebranded to Ghost Story Games

Ken Levine’s Irrational Games studio has been going through internal changes for some time now. And while we still don’t have any solid information regarding the studio’s next title, it has been recently announced that Irrational Games is no more.…

Dungeon Chess Announced

Chess is a truly timeless game. And with the development of new digital technologies, there’s been an abundance of ways to play it. Back in the day, things like Battle Chess were quite amusing. Now that VR is getting some…

System Shock Remake Update #28

The newest post-funding update for Night Dive Studios’ System Shock is short in terms of text but has some interesting stuff in a new sound clip and several pieces of concept art. There’s also an announcement that the team will…

Underworld Ascendant: The Evolution of Lizard Men

The February update on Underworld Ascendant’s development is focused on the Lizard Men. We get two lengthy developer interviews about modeling and voicing the scaly creatures, along with screenshots and audio files. Here’s a bit from one of them: Can…

Battle Brothers Final Update in Beta

The final update for Battle Brothers has now entered the Beta branch. According to the developers, the saves from this Beta version should work with the final release that still requires some minor bugfixing and tweaking before it’s ready. You…