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[EARLY ACCESS] What's Going To Happen After 9.2? ...And When?

Will there be a 9.3? When's the next expansion? What about Blizzcon? We've looked at some past dates, and thought about the production realities of the game - so we have some pretty good estimates....

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Daily Briefing: Wednesday 29th September

Netflix step up gaming investment with Night School Studio acquisition

The studio, which is best known for developing narrative-driven titles like Oxenfree, will create original gaming cont...

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Daily Briefing: Tuesday 28th September

Activision Blizzard agree $18m settlement with employment commission

Earlier this week, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a complaint against Activision Blizzard. ...

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[EARLY ACCESS] The Boosting Problem Part 2: Game's Broke?

Boosting as an activity is ruining WoW, but it's not the actual disease - merely a symptom. The root cause, and the cure, is Blizzard. Here's what we think.

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[EARLY ACCESS] 10 Times THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING Was Actually True

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING! Or so we usually say, anytime a big lore thing happens. When, though, were we actually right? These are the events in WoW that actually changed everything about the lore. View Post

Daily Briefing: Monday 27th September

Naughty Dog say that Last of Us multiplayer thing is still coming

Things have been pretty quiet on the project since it was (sort of) announced a while back but, speaking in a new blog post...

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General Chat #04: Too Many Video Games

Deathloop! Splitgate! Halo! Resident Evil! Horizon Zero Dawn! Ender Lilies! Nier Replicant!

We've been playing games, and figured we might as well talk about them. The first portion of this p...

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Daily Briefing: Friday 24th September

Diablo II: Resurrection is having a pretty rough time with servers

Diablo II: Resurrected released this week and, like any Blizzard game worth its salt, was immediately beset by server issu...

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[EARLY ACCESS] Has WoW's Lore Become Hostile To Players?

Who does Azeroth, and the lore, belong to? Is it Bobby? Ion? The writing team? Or does it actually belong to us, the players?

This is an important conversation for us to have. How has the lo...

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Daily Briefing: Thursday 23rd September

Fortnite effectively "blacklisted" from Apple devices

Following a ruling finally being passed in the dramatic Epic v. Apple lawsuit not so long ago, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says that App...

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Daily Briefing: Wednesday 22nd September

Overwatch 2 boss leaves Activision Blizzard

Chacko Sonny joined Blizzard back in 2016 and served first as executive producer on Overwatch and then as development head on Overwatch 2. Sonny ...

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[EARLY ACCESS] The Most Awful Jobs On Azeroth: Forced To Work, Experimented On & WORSE

Ever stop to think what life in Azeroth is like? For many, it wouldn't be so bad... but for certain occupations, it would be torment. We've thought about it, and did the research - what we're going...

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Daily Briefing: Tuesday 21st September

Activision Blizzard hit by federal investigation

That's according to The Wall Street Journal, who this week reported that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission have launched ...

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General Chat #03: 9.1.5 & Us!

We sat down to talk about 9.1.5 and our plans for it. We ended up talking for almost an hour and a half about World of Warcraft. Again.

We start on 9.1.5, but eventually branch into some othe...

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[EARLY ACCESS] Boosting, Part 1: The MILLION Dollar Industry Hidden In WoW

Boosting is all over WoW. Trade chat is full, the group finder is full, but no one's really talking about it. So we spoke to boosting communities, ex-boosters, and some people who made a LOT of mon...

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Daily Briefing: Monday 20th September

Blizzard don't want players to buy Diablo II Resurrected...sort of

The much-anticipated remaster will be the first release to come out of Blizzard since the California Department of Fair Ho...

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Daily Briefing: Friday 17th September

Digital Foundry say the new PS5 model is no better or worse than the launch model

Following varying reports that the newly-released PS5 model was both superior and inferior to the launch mo...

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Losing Our Marbles #03 - Producers Are The BEST!

We have a producer! What does that mean? That means Dackor, our researcher and overall great WoW dude, is now making sure everything runs like a well-oiled machine. But what does that mean for you?...

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Daily Briefing: The stories we missed

Hello all, my name is Adam and I'm a staff writer here at Bellular and one of the people responsible for the Daily Briefing.

Due to a regrettable publication issue there was no Daily Briefing...

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Daily Briefing: Thursday 16th September

God of War devs don't want to "spend 15 years on a trilogy "

The news that God of War Ragnarök will mark the end of Kratos' Norse saga was met by a little bit of surprise and confusion by ...

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Daily Briefing: Tuesday 14th September

Nvidia respond to big GeForce Now leak

Earlier this week details emerged of a way to access the database for Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming serve, a series of back-end protocols mostly used...

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Daily Briefing: Friday 10th September

Sony definitely brought the heat for last night's PlayStation Showcase

Sony held another PlayStation Showcase last night and, while a number of game shows in recent times have been rather t...

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Daily Briefing: Thursday 9th September

Sony acquire Firesprite

The Liverpool-based studio have worked with Sony a number of times in the past across titles like The Playroom, The Playroom VR and Run, Sackboy! Run! In fact, sever...

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Daily Briefing: Wednesday 8th September

Activision branding returns to Call of Duty marketing

Activision's logo has been conspicuously absent from previous pieces of media surrounding the upcoming Call of Duty: Vanguard as the co...

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Daily Briefing: Tuesday 7th September

Tripwire Interactive CEO steps down following controversial statements

John Gibson, the now-former CEO of Maneater and Killing Floor studio Tripwire Interactive, has "stepped down" from his...

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Daily Briefing: Monday 6th September

Horizon Forbidden West will get free next-gen upgrade after all

The change in policy, which was officially confirmed by Sony over the weekend, comes in response to some pretty fierce backla...

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Daily Briefing: Thursday 2nd September

Sony Announce The Playstation Showcase: "A Sneak Peek At The Future Of PS5"

On Thursday September 9ths, at 1PM PDT/9PM BST, Playstation will show off 40 minutes of updates from Playstation ...

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Patch 9.2: Fall of Azeroth

Hey! Michael here again! It seems loads of you enjoyed the Class Order Halls idea that I poste...

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Daily Briefing: Wednesday 1st September

'Traditional' Gambling In Games Is Now 18+ - But Nothing On Lootboxes

PEGI, the European ratings board for games, has updated their criteria so that any game that encourages or teaches gamb...

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Loot Reveal: September

LOOT! Man, I love the Grpyhon! Also, one of our chunkier pins! If you're subscribed at the loot tier for September (which is billed 1st - 4th of October), then we'll send along the pack.

Have...

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