Hope Bellingham
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 12DOVE 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 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"
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
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
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?
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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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