Bellular

This Week With Bellular

A quick catch up of some of our great content from this week - 8th - 12th July - and some free samples to peak your interest!

Adam Sayers

Jul 13, 2024 — 7 min read

Team Bellular is back to full strength this week and we've been learning more web development too! 🖥️👨‍💻

The site has been a good starting point for us, but it just feels a tad messy right? Having to scroll down through all the posts, with a host of gifs flooding your vision, and then having to click in to a post to read and click back to the main page to see more.
Just not ideal. ☹️

So having looked at how other sites are presenting their content, we settled on a particular navigation (that we showed off last week) and have been steadily figuring out how we can adapt it.
Like perhaps ... a toggle to minimise navigation so you can read posts in full screen? 🤔

It's been slow going 🐢 as we aren't skilled programmers, like we'd like to be, but we do have a base knowledge and it's been very fun to look at up and coming tech, to see if we can speed up our backend monotony. ⏩
That way we can really focus on creating the fun and amazing content we want to bring you!

In a short while we'll be giving out a tester of the new theme, for your guys honest feedback and ideas, so sign up and get on over to our Members Discord if you haven't already!
For now here's our latest freebies and articles from this past week for your enjoyment!

This One's On Us

Rockstar have a lot to do for GTA 6, it's going to be a huge game when it finally comes out! But while they are finishing that up, we found out this week that they actually cancelled DLC for GTA 5, in favour of more MTX for GTA Online! 🪙🌐
With things as they are this makes sense for Live Service but a while back Naughty Dog did basically the opposite!

Do you feel like Devs know what they're doing with Live Service? 🤷
Are we really as onboard with everything now like we were when Helldivers 2 came out?
Maybe we need to look back on how they handled it and hope more devs listen to Raphael Van Lierop this week and don't settle into the "Live Service Boom or Bust" mentality.

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Our Best This Week: News

With Conor back in the office🏢💼 the teams back in full swing and he's found a host of interesting topics for Loading Screen this week! A game I've certainly been keeping my eye on, Once Human, has come under flack for potentially harvesting data? And Creative Assembly have done some final efforts to improve audience feelings on Total War Pharoah's.

Meanwhile in the industry 🎮 the Live Service model has become hotly debated again.
This time with Xbox making a decision to remove Day One on Game Pass unless you up your subscription and Hinterland Studios CCO, Raphael Van Lierop, discussing his take on why Manor Lords did things right.

Our Best This Week: Warcraft

We're continuing our countdown to The War Within 🕙 with only 10 Days till the pre-patch comes in on the 23rd July! We've compiled everything that will be leaving WoW on that day in a handy video so you don't miss out.

With those things leaving we also looked back on what's left and where WoW continues from here, specifically from Dragonflight. 🐲
What really was the point in Dragonflight? What were the important events that will lead us to The War Within? Let's recap where things are!