Latest articles by Lauren Morton
Witchbrook: Everything we know so far about the witchy life sim
Spelled out Chucklefish's cozy magical college sim is coming next year.
Squadron 42: Everything we know about Star Citizen’s singleplayer campaign
Star-studded Get up to lightspeed on Squadron 42's cast members and story details.
Haunted Chocolatier: all the key details on the followup to Stardew Valley
Sweets Science Stardew Valley's creator is working on another life sim, and it looks just as sweet as his first.
BioShock 4: Everything we know so far about the long-awaited sequel
Bioshook BioShock 4 may be in development, but brace yourself for a shakeup.
I crashed out reading layoff condolence letters in this shop sim about a laid-off adventurer made by a laid-off Xbox developer
Locked Out Being a game dev "is not something a corporation can take from you" says solo developer releasing a game alone after last year's Microsoft layoffs.
An indie asking for $250,000 is 'a drop in the bucket' says Tunic's publisher, but indies are in a 'survival' era because companies think that 'isn't profitable enough' to fund
News Finji CEO Rebekah Saltsman says that indie games are just trying to survive in an era where publishers don't want to invest in a game that was "only ever going to make $500,000."
'You would not believe the number of AI games in our inbox' says Tunic's publisher 'I am tired of seeing it'
News CEO Rebekah Saltsman is tired of seeing AI pitches for AI games and she'd rather see developers pitch a publisher like Finji with "programmer art" than generative AI.
'Sims don't plan anything' says former Sims 4 developer, though he always wanted to program them to: 'it's always shot down, rightfully so'
News The Sims 4's original AI programmer always wanted to give sims the ability to plan their actions but it never stuck.
'I took those files and deleted them': Former Sims 4 developer says he totally rewrote the sims' AI in the middle of development and 'that was a scary thing to do'
News The Sims 4's original lead AI programmer says he pitched the entire AI system not long before alpha and rewrote it from scratch.
Over 48% of unreleased games have a Discord server, and I'm sure this is all fine and normal and I don't miss forums at all
News How did we get here?
Former EVE Online developers are building a society simulation MMO where your character keeps playing even after you log off
Eternally Online Long-in-the-works colony sim MMO Seed is shaping up into something that looks like EVE Online for RimWorld fans.
Game dev union members marched at GDC to propose a 'Game Workers' Bill of Rights'
The UVW-CWA is envisioning a base standard set of working conditions for all game developers.
Overhauling Minecraft's world generation was like 'trying to build a skyscraper with hand tools' which basically scared Mojang off of continuing massive yearly updates
News Mojang got so in over its head overhauling all of Minecraft's world generation tech five years ago that it swore off yearly title updates not long after.
The horse gamers have spoken: This new horse sim has 'a beautiful sense of realism I haven't felt since RDR2'
News Horse fans have been burned by bad horse games often enough, but The Legend of Khiimori shows promise if it can hurdle a lot of bug fixes.
Is the realistic horse courier sim The Legend of Khiimori worth playing in early access?
Hold Up Here's a breakdown of all the horse sim features and the early access state of Legend of Khiimori so you can decide to play or wait.
Finally someone has threaded the needle between survival game and horse girl sim
Trot it out The Legend of Khiimori is a surprisingly detailed horse courier sim that I'm actually loving more than just in solidarity with my horse girl gamer friends.
Almost all the cozy games of March have demos to try and I've been snapping up as many as I can
Cozy calendar A well-timed Steam Next Fest means we've been trying out tons of new cozy games right before they hit release day this month.
Stardew Valley has basically become the Tolkien of cozy gaming
The GOAT A decade after launch, Stardew Valley is still the de facto starting point and fondest farm sim for so many cozy gamers.
The best games like Stardew Valley on PC
Farm Life Games like Stardew Valley have taken root on PC and now you have your choice of farms and towns to revitalize.
If you're feeling overwhelmed by the sheer amount of demos available at Steam Next Fest, we've narrowed down our must-play cozy game demos to save you the stress of searching for yourself
Cozy up Save yourself from the hard work—let us do it for you.
10 years later, I still can't believe Eric Barone thought Harvest Moon fans would hate Stardew Valley
Udder Shock "I still didn't think it was going to be super popular," Barone said of the days leading up to Stardew Valley's launch in 2016.
My new indie darling is this crafting game stuffed with hand-sculpted creatures made by a husband and wife dev team
Crafty Critters OddFauna's handmade critters are absolute catnip for my crafting game brain.
Divinity: everything we know about Larian's 'most ambitious RPG yet'
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.
