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

Baldur's Gate 3
Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead explains Larian's player-first approach to marketing the RPG: "The industry's best agencies ... came up with nothing good"

By Hope Bellingham Published

News "It has never been easier to *potentially* reach your audience directly"

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Xbox Series X
Xbox sales are down 30%, but Microsoft's CEO is still boasting "we had 7 games among the top 25 on the PlayStation Store"

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Xbox games are performing well on PlayStation

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Stellar Blade gun
The Stellar Blade dev team had a "competition" to see who could beat a boss first: "From that moment, all of us understood how to design the combat"

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Shift Up took Stellar Blade's combat very seriously

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Gears of War actor hints that we might learn more about the next Gears game within just a couple of months

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Will this coincide with Xbox's summer showcase?

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Assassin's Creed Mirage
Ubisoft hints at the future of Assassin's Creed's Basim but says "no post-launch content is planned for Mirage"

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Will we get more Basim games in the future?

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The last of us 2
The Last of Us TV show actor was advised to watch the games, but she played them both in a single weekend instead - and she's glad she did

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Isabela Merced was completely prepared for her Dina audition

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My Little Life
Be prepared to get absolutely no work down with this Tamagotchi-inspired life sim inspired by the developer behind 'idle Stardew Valley'

By Hope Bellingham Published

News My Little Life gives you the best of both worlds

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Manor Lords
You won't find out the Manor Lords price before its release this week, but don't worry: "There's going to be a fair price there at launch"

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Everything will be revealed on April 26

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Palworld Foxcicle
Pokemon fans think Palworld's latest Pal is very familiar: "Literally Glaceon and Alolan Ninetales fused together"

By Hope Bellingham Published

News It's hard not to compare the Pal and the two 'Mons

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Steam Deck
Steam changes its refund policy so that pre-order early access playtime now counts towards the 2 hour rule

By Hope Bellingham Published

News You get 2 hours, whether the game is out or not

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Fallout TV Show
Further pointing to the fact the Fallout TV series feels like Fallout 5, Todd Howard says: "It's a new entry, so just like we approach a game"

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Fallout 5 is sadly a long ways off yet

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Sunkissed City wind screenshot
A former Stardew Valley dev is making their own life sim set in a city, and it boasts some exciting "Wind Waker-style wind whirlies"

By Hope Bellingham Published

News 'Mr. Podunkian' has shared another sneak peek of their upcoming game

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Nightingale
Former Mass Effect devs' survival game Nightingale gets "biggest" post-launch update yet with quality of life and gameplay improvements

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Nightingale 0.2 is expected to roll out soon

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Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley dev forced to roll back latest update for some players over issues that broke the life sim's Chinese translation

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Bits of 1.6.4 have been rolled back to 1.6.3 for some players

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GTA 6
A new Taylor Swift song mentions GTA, but some remember it mentioning Baldur's Gate 3, Final Fantasy 14, and more in hilarious Twitter trend

By Hope Bellingham Published

News I don't remember all of those games making the final song

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Tales of the Shire
The cutest Lord of the Rings game yet gets its first trailer, and I immediately want to live in this Hobbit take on a Stardew Valley-like life sim

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Tales of the Shire is out later this year

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Future Lord of the Rings games are set to get their own dedicated publisher following parent company Embracer's mass-studio closure amid $2 billion investment collapse

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Coffee Stain, Middle-Earth, and Asmodee are all becoming their own entities

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StarCraft 2
New strategy game from legendary RTS devs behind StarCraft, Warcraft, and more has promised a reveal this summer

By Hope Bellingham Published

News This will be a "new type of RTS," according to its developer

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Life by You
The director of Sims competitor Life By You says players can monetize their future mods: "You don't owe us a dime"

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Rod Humble is happy for Life By You players to make mods

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Doom
Doom 2 speedrunner breaks an 'impossible' 26-year record by completing the FPS's first level in just 4 seconds

By Hope Bellingham Published

News The original runner is Doomed

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Infinity Nikki
I've not stopped thinking about this open-world dress-up game from a former Breath of the Wild dev for 2 years, and now it finally has a playtest

By Hope Bellingham Published

News The gorgeous Infinity Nikki is getting closer to release

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The Wolf Among Us 2 Bigby
Five years after its announcement, The Wolf Among Us 2 is still "in production" and gets four new screenshots

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Could the sequel be closer than we think?

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Life By You
The director of upcoming Sims competitor Life By You says life sims are "the most complex RPGs ever written"

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Rod Humble also thinks it's an "inclusive game genre"

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Minami Lane
Indie devs behind Animal Crossing-style management sim with 'Overwhelmingly Positive' Steam reviews get candid about future plans: "Will we milk this? No, we clearly don't want to do that"

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Minami Lane has sold 50k copies in three months

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Hades 2 announcement trailer
Hades 2 fans think the roguelike sequel confirms a 6-year-old fan theory about the mysterious narrator's identity, in an easter egg 2,000 years in the making

By Hope Bellingham Published

News Melinoë appears to name them in the technical test

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