
Lauren Morton
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

New games 2025: The year's PC game releases
By Lauren Morton last updated
Date Planner The new games of 2025 stack more massive RPGs and open-world adventures against each other.

The best deals in the 2025 Steam Winter Sale
By Lauren Morton published
deals All the cheap games in the Winter Sale that you won't want to miss, from lowest-ever prices to discounted new releases.

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.

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.

PC Gamer's Game of the Year Awards 2025
By Phil Savage published
The Gotys Our favourite PC games of the year.

Here's when you can watch the Fallout season 2 premiere
By Lauren Morton published
Gear Up After that last-minute time change, here's exactly when and where season two of the Fallout TV series premieres.

The 5 biggest announcements and trailers from The Game Awards 2025
By Lauren Morton published
Reveals Reel If you missed the live show, here's the biggest stuff you missed—assuming the group chat hasn't already been typing in all caps to give you the news.

How to watch The Game Awards 2025 to catch this year's winners and big announcements
By Lauren Morton published
Trophy Time Here are all the details on when and where The Game Awards premieres this year from worldwide times to streaming platforms.

BioShock 4: Everything we know so far about the long-awaited sequel
By Lauren Morton last updated
Bioshook BioShock 4 may be in development, but brace yourself for a shakeup.

A human overview of Paralives: what you need to know about the upcoming indie life sim
By Lauren Morton published
Life Plan The next life sim to watch is hyper-stylized with an impressive build mode and lots of plans for Live Mode in early access.

Despite getting delayed, Paralives looks like it's avoiding Inzoi's biggest flaw
By Lauren Morton published
News After announcing a delay to May 2026, Paralives has shared a long video of new uninterrupted gameplay that's actually made me optimistic.

Witchbrook: Everything we know so far about the witchy life sim
By Russell Adderson last updated
Spelled out Chucklefish's cozy magical college sim is coming next year.

The Witcher 4: What we know about the start of a new trilogy
By Morgan Park last updated
SOMEDAY The Witcher 4 is definitely happening and will kick off its own new trilogy with Ciri on the front line.

Finally some good buyout news: A writer just bought back the game she co-created from a blockchain company so it 'doesn’t end up being turned into AI slop'
By Lauren Morton published
News Novelist and game writer Naomi Alderman has bought back the rights to the Zombies, Run! exercise app she's been writing episodes of for more than a decade.

Rumors about a Sims 4 remaster are probably bunk, but we do already know EA is quietly cooking up some unified multi-platform Sims Hub
By Lauren Morton published
News The latest Sims community goss mostly hinges on old news and hearsay but a kernel of it does relate to officially-announced Sims series plans.

This cozy multiplayer co-working game is like going to an office in Animal Crossing and somehow it's actually made me more productive
By Lauren Morton published
Cozy Co-working Body-doubling is now 100% cozier.

The life sim revolution was supposed to happen this year but it completely evaporated
By Lauren Morton last updated
Life Ruined The great renaissance of the genre has been postponed—maybe indefinitely.

Anno 117: Pax Romana launch times and release date
By Lauren Morton published
Empire State Here's when you can take charge of your own Roman province to carve your place into the empire.

Liam Hemsworth is so cautiously not awful as Geralt of Rivia that he's basically invisible in The Witcher season 4
By Lauren Morton published
Witcher Where? Someone forgot to CG the Witcher into his scenes in post.

The Witcher books reading order: where to start with the short stories and novels
By Rob Dwiar last updated
Wiedźmin Reading order recs for starting your Witcher novels journey.

The Witcher season 4: Everything we know about Hemsworth's debut on The Continent
By Lauren Morton last updated
Season 4 Season 4 of The Witcher will pick up with the third Witcher novel, Baptism of Fire.

The Witcher season 4 is upon us—here's when and where to catch the premiere
By Lauren Morton published
Watcher Here's when and where you can watch the premiere of the newest season of The Witcher TV show.

The Outer Worlds 2 guide: all the best traits, weapons, and choices you can make in Arcadia
By Lauren Morton last updated
Moon shots Knowledge, such a fickle concept.
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