Lauren has been writing for PC Gamer since she went hunting for the cryptid Dark Souls fashion police in 2017. She joined the PCG staff in 2021, now serving as self-appointed chief cozy games and farmlife sim enjoyer. Her career originally began in game development and she remains fascinated by how games tick in the modding and speedrunning scenes. She likes long fantasy books, longer RPGs, can't stop playing co-op survival crafting games, and has spent a number of hours she refuses to count building houses in The Sims games for over 20 years.
Latest articles by Lauren Morton

Borderlands 3 Shift codes: Every active Shift code and how to redeem them
By Lauren Morton, Wes Fenlon last updated
Free keys An updated list of the latest Borderlands 3 shift codes for Golden Keys, and how to unlock special loot.

Steam sale dates: When is the next Steam sale?
By Fraser Brown last updated
Bargain Dates, biggest discounts, tips, annual Steam sale dates, and more.

The best farm sim since Stardew Valley is on sale right before its 1.0 launch
By Lauren Morton published
News Fields of Mistria is leaving Early Access in August, so now is a perfect time to grab it at a discount.

It's wild of Rockstar to ask us for $80, minimum, without showing a GTA 6 gameplay trailer
By Lauren Morton published
Self-Parody I really didn't think they'd open pre-orders without a new trailer, but here we are.

What's free on the Epic Games Store right now?
By Lauren Morton last updated
FREE STUFF Stay up to date on what games Epic is giving away each week this year.

When the heck is GTA 6 going to release on PC?
By Lauren Morton published
Remote Start We're expecting to wait about a year, and for Rockstar to keep playing coy about the PC version.

GTA 6: What we know about Rockstar's return to Vice City
By Lauren Morton last updated
Crime Time Grand Theft Auto 6's delay gives more time to pick apart trailers, characters, and locations.

Steam finally found a way to recommend new games that doesn't feel like I'm getting KO'd by a fire hose
By Lauren Morton published
News A calendar for games? Imagine!

Everything we know about Fable, the reboot on the twisted heroes RPG series
By Lauren Morton last updated
Fable the 4th Fable is heading back to Albion with with a revamped morality system in tow.

Guild Wars 3 hopes to solve the problem that made me quit Guild Wars 2 after thousands of hours with the series
By Lauren Morton published
News I stopped logging in after realizing I would always need to clean my room before I was allowed to have any fun.

The Elder Scrolls 6: All the key details about Bethesda's return to Tamriel
By Omri Petitte last updated
scroll locked The Elder Scrolls 6 is still very far away, but we've collected all the news and rumors while we wait.

Project Rene—Everything we know about the next major Sims game
By Lauren Morton last updated
Next Generation Project Rene is still years away, but Electronic Arts has committed to showing off features as it develops.

Divinity: everything we know about Larian's 'most ambitious RPG yet'
By Lauren Morton last updated
Return to Rivellon Larian is returning to its own original fantasy setting with a dark, horrifying new RPG and everything it learned from Baldur's Gate 3.

Tracing blueprints in Paralives is so easy it freed me from 25 years of The Sims' grid-based tyranny
By Lauren Morton published
Freebuild One tiny mod for Paralives has finally made my childhood dreams of more realistic life sims floor plans possible.

The best games like The Sims for building beautiful characters, homes, and a life full of drama
By Lauren Morton last updated
Live It Up Here's how to get your life sim fix outside the Sims series walls.

You can just bypass Fable's reputation system with enough gold, which seems like a waste of its 'complex, nuanced, take on morality'
By Lauren Morton published
Pay It Away Fable's take on morality sounds pretty neat—if only it weren't so eager to assure us we can just buy out of it.

Everything we know about Guild Wars 3 and how it plans to 'push the MMORPG genre forward'
By Lauren Morton published
Triple Guild ArenaNet is planning an MMO that will be radically different, just like Guild Wars 2 once was.

5 cozy game demos I'm downloading right now after I counted a whole 37 dropping during Summer Game Fest weekend
By Lauren Morton published
Free Hugs Showcase weekend was stuffed to the stitches with cozy game demos so I've tallied them up and sorted them out.

The cozy game launches of June are a really crafty bunch
By Lauren Morton last updated
Cozy calendar Crafting and cooking are all over the menu this month from survival crafting to flower arranging to stamp collection journaling.

The vampire farm sim I've been anticipating for 3 years just released an even bigger, better demo for everyone to try before it launches next month
By Lauren Morton published
News You can now play the same big demo for Moonlight Peaks that I got to try last month.

I'm finally getting married in Fields of Mistria when its 1.0 update launches in August
By Lauren Morton published
News The full launch version of Fields of Mistria just announced its release date so now I've got a lot of playing left to prepare for it.

Everything you need to know about Stranger Than Heaven, the half-century-spanning Yakuza series prequel
By Lauren Morton last updated
Old School Cool RGG's new historical drama is an origin story for the Tojo Clan's founder Makoto and his rise to power.

All Disney Dreamlight Valley codes and how to redeem them
By Lauren Morton last updated
Castle Keys Cash in these Dreamlight Valley codes for free outfits and furniture.
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