Hope Bellingham

Hope Bellingham

News Writer

After studying Film Studies and Creative Writing at university, I was lucky enough to land a job as an intern at Player Two PR where I helped to release a number of indie titles. I then got even luckier when I became a Trainee News Writer at GamesRadar+ before being promoted to a fully-fledged News Writer after a year and a half of training. My expertise lies in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, cozy indies, and The Last of Us, but especially in the Kingdom Hearts series. I'm also known to write about the odd Korean drama for the Entertainment team every now and then.

Latest articles by Hope Bellingham

Steam Deck
Steam upgrades its family plan, allowing your kids to ping you to pay for their shopping cart and get you banned by cheating on a shared account

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Parents are about to get a lot of payment requests

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Palworld
Palworld dev is hiring artists for official comics, promises "cuteness and fun" yet immediately shares cutthroat sadness

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Please do not create heartbreaking comics like this

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Balatro
In under a month, solo-developed instant-classic roguelike Balatro has sold 1 million copies, will soon destroy global productivity with mobile release

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Get ready to lose even more of your time

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Wonder Woman game
It looks like Gotham Knights studio Warner Bros Montreal is working on the upcoming Wonder Woman game

By Hope Bellingham Published

News A job listing has revealed the studio's support work

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Stardew Valley
At long last, Stardew Valley's 1.6 update lets you chug a jar of mayonnaise

By Hope Bellingham Published

News This is the most cursed patch note by far

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Monster Hunter World
At 25 million copies sold, Monster Hunter World is such an unprecedented success that it's over 25% of the total sales of the 20-year-old action RPG series

By Hope Bellingham Published

News A lot of people love Monster Hunter World

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Dragon's Dogma 2
Dragon's Dogma 2 director says "it's okay if you buy both" as it and release date rival Rise of the Ronin gear up for an RPG showdown

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Princess Peach: Showtime is also out on the very same day

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Minecraft 1.17 Lightning Rod
Updating Minecraft on PC through the Xbox app might delete your worlds, Mojang warns

By Hope Bellingham Published

News But don't worry, there's a fix

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Palworld
Palworld devs "in talks" to bring the survival game x Pokemon mashup to more platforms in the future

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Pocketpair is open to partnership or acquisition offers

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Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection
Star Wars Battlefront collection blowback gets worse as players discover it demands over 8x more storage than the original games combined

By Hope Bellingham Published

News The Battlefront games have grown a lot in 20 years, it seems

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Gameloft unnamed fantasy game concept art
The next D&D video game revealed: Disney Dreamlight Valley dev announces a survival game, life sim, action RPG all-in-one with the same setting as Baldur's Gate 3

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Gameloft is teaming up with Dungeons & Dragons

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Detective Pikachu smiling and giving a thumbs up
Former Pokemon lawyer explains why Nintendo goes after so many fan games: "No one likes suing fans"

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Don McGowan has worked at The Pokemon Company, Microsoft, and Bungie

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A screenshot of a character in Dragon's Dogma 2.
Dragon's Dogma 2 isn't even out yet but one fan has already spent 27 hours in its character creator alone

By Hope Bellingham Published

News How many more hours will they get in before next week?

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Rental
Steam's new indie horror darling is like a cursed version of Animal Crossing and suddenly Tom Nook seems like the best landlord ever

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Imagine Animal Crossing but set in Silent Hill

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Palworld
To get better updates out quicker, Palworld dev asks players "genuinely interested in bug hunting" to help polish the survival game through its new testing program

By Hope Bellingham Published

News You can play a part in Palworld's development

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Brighter Shores
After 23 years, the original RuneScape creator is making a new anti-grind MMO that's "opposed to the onslaught of microtransactions in modern MMOs"

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Brighter Shores offers an "exciting twist" to the genre

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Helldivers 2 helldivers hugging
Helldivers 2 was designed to make players feel like "no single person can do this alone" as its director believes a great co-op game "makes players want to play together"

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Arrowhead designed the shooter with this in mind

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Deep Rock Galactic
As Helldivers 2 gets Deep Rock Galactic comparisons, devs crush any division with dwarven democracy and ask about a co-op collab: "Arrowhead, please hit us back"

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Helldivers 2 x Deep Rock Galactic, when?

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Unicorn Overlord
Strategy RPGs are so freaking back: Unicorn Overlord publisher Atlus apologizes for stock shortages in Japan

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Suffering from success

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CD Projekt Red/Kreiesegger via Reddit
Cyberpunk 2077 dev says "we're done" working on the RPG but doesn't rule out the possibility of the occasional small new feature

By Hope Bellingham Published

News CD Projekt Red is mainly focused on the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel and The Witcher 4

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Minecraft Pigscene painting
After 14 years, the artist behind Minecraft's iconic paintings shares the original artwork made for what was once a "little weird indie hobby game"

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Meet the artist behind Minecraft's paintings

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Ori and the Blind Forest
Ori and the Blind Forest has sold around 10 million copies which "probably makes it the most successful Metroidvania ever made," but its dev could've gone bankrupt

By Hope Bellingham Published

News The gorgeous Metroidvania's success allows its director to buy dream consoles

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Marvel's Spider-Man 2
Don't wear the Symbiote suit in Marvel's Spider-Man 2's first mission, unless you want to discover a new hero: Poop-Man

By Hope Bellingham Published

News "If they patch out Peter Pooper, I'm not playing the DLC"

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Enshrouded
"You should break our game some more," Enshrouded dev tells devious player after they use exploits to skip huge chunks of the survival game

By Hope Bellingham Published

News That's not how you're supposed to play

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Elden Ring
2 years after Elden Ring's release, players are still surprised to find cheaters dropping 86 million Runes in PvP

By Hope Bellingham Published

News "Patches is set to retire in luxury"

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