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The Bellular daily gaming newsletter, bringing you everything you need to know, 5 days a week, Monday to Friday.
Loading Screen: Riot Responds To "Bricked PC" Allegations
Today - Riot are facing accusations of bricking people's PCs as they add their kernel level anti cheat to League of Legends - but based on their reported errors and explanation - it's a really niche problem to face. Similarly niche, but no less impressive for it - this week's Weekend Recommend.
Loading Screen: Take Two Kill Another Studio, No More Elden Ring and Square Enix Slim Down
Turns out that Take Two weren't done killing studios - and even if you do sell critically acclaimed games you aren't safe. Meanwhile From Software have disappointed many with news of Elden Ring DLC, while Square Enix have taken a hatchet to their release plans - to the tune of 22.1 billion yen.
Loading Screen: Gray Zone Warfare Seizes The Initiative, Take Two Appears To Gut Kerbal Space Program
Two stories today - as in the wake of Tarkov's controversial supporter packages, a new competitor has swept in to charm their shared audience while we're seeing the first impact of Take Two's layoffs and it seems like the team behind Kerbal Space Program have been hit hard.
Loading Screen: Starfield and Fallout - Todd Howard's Take
An interview with Todd Howard by KindaFunny has given everyone insight into the state of Bethesda going forwards - we've got Starfield updates, Fallout questions and then following that, we dig into the state of their games right now as a very angry modding community take Bethesda to task.
Loading Screen: Roblox's 19 Year Old Plan For The Future and One Streamer Turning The Tables on Nexon
Roblox is resurrecting a 19 year old system to let players buy real objects from inside the game world, a Streamer turned the tables on Nexon to argue for community demands and we bring you the most interesting stories of the weekend.
Loading Screen: Tarkov's $250 PvE, Activision Saves Xbox's Financials and Capcom Delist More Games
Tarkov is asking folks to pay $250 for PvE - and players are revolting, Activision Blizzard has saved Xbox's financials and Capcom are making very weird decisions around delisting smaller titles.
Loading Screen: Costly Spaceships and Cancelled Indie Games
Elite Dangerous' new experiments with monetisation have players on edge, and accusing Frontier Development of going back on their word - while an Indie dev publishes their game demo, then pauses development all in the same day, because the industry simply isn't funding projects right now.
Loading Screen: Steam's Advanced Access and Call Of Duty's Monetised Friendship
Two money focussed stories for you today - Steam have closed loopholes around refunds as they try to get an industry trend under control while Call of Duty have opened a can of worms as they add monetisation that doesn't just encourage you to spend, it wants you to get your friends involved too.
Loading Screen: Fallout So Popular It Breaks Modding Websites, Brackeys Return and Infogrames' Revival
The Fallout TV Show is wrecking modding platforms due to surges in popularity, Brackeys has returned to gamedev tutorials in the wake of Unity's very public disasters and Atari are resurrecting the Infogrames brand - which statistically at least some of you remember.
Loading Screen: Playstation Shutter 15 Years Of Player Content, Stellar Blade's Censorship Shenanigans
Today, Playstation shows us they have no plan for the future of their libraries of User Generated Content, while Stellar Blade's PR team have managed to turn victory into even more victory by careful framing of what audiences think censorship means.
Loading Screen: A Wicked Launch, More Paradox Delays and Hearthstone's Bad Maths
No Rest for the Wicked has launched, and it's no rest for the devs as they scramble for fixes to their mixed user review score, elsewhere Paradox have delayed another(!) game and the Hearthstone team have an interesting idea of how maths works.
Loading Screen: Player Expectation Problems
Steam's number one wishlisted game is coming out next week, but the solo developer behind Manor Lords needs those players to listen to him - Manor Lords might not be what you're hoping for.