Latest articles by Lauren Morton
Steam sale dates: When is the next Steam sale?
Bargain Dates, biggest discounts, tips, annual Steam sale dates, and more.
Moonlight Peaks review: An anemic execution of cutely spooky themes
Blood Thinner A vampire farm sim should have had more bite.
How to get married in Moonlight Peaks, or divorced, if your undead heart wanders
For Eternity After dozens of dates and gifts, seal the deal with a supernatural ceremony.
How to unlock Samael's romance and begin dating the brooding bartender in Moonlight Peaks
Aged Dates Samael definitely is datable, even though it doesn't seem that way at first.
Where to find the fallen tree and unblock the waterfall in Moonlight Peaks
Leave Tree! Help your new friends rejoin their neighbors by learning a spell to hoist a blockage.
How to find all Elvira's clues in her Moonlight Peaks treasure hunt
Scavenger Hunt This scavenger hunt starts off with some softballs but the last clues are a bit tough.
How to go on dates in Moonlight Peaks and start your road to romance
Love Potion Here's how to get started with wooing all the eligible locals.
My first 40 days in Moonlight Peaks started off with juicy feuds, but its anemic character writing is starting to show through
Blood Thinner I'm always up for a fun new farm sim twist, but I'm not so sure that Moonlight Peaks has supernatural staying power.
'Chibi tumba loonuck' may sound like gibberish, but The Sims have their own language. Can you translate the simlish phrases in our latest Sims series quiz?
🗨️ Google Translate won't save you here.
The cozy game launches of July are absolutely stacked with cats, even more than usual
Cozy calendar I've tracked down at least 30 new cozy games launching in July and I lost count of how many have cats.
The best farm sim since Stardew Valley is on sale right before its 1.0 launch
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
Self-Parody I really didn't think they'd open pre-orders without a new trailer, but here we are.
Steam finally found a way to recommend new games that doesn't feel like I'm getting KO'd by a fire hose
News A calendar for games? Imagine!
Everything we know about Fable, the reboot on the twisted heroes RPG series
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
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
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
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'
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
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
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'
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'
Triple Guild ArenaNet is planning an MMO that will be radically different, just like Guild Wars 2 once was.
