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.
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Cheating Death Here's your full reference list for cheats in the afterlife expansion with skill cheats, career cheats, and tons of unlockable ghost abilities.

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Business Hacks Here's your full reference list for cheats in the small businesses expansion to change your renown, alignment, and skill levels.

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News Wildly prolific fantasy and horror author T. Kingfisher just got announced as the writer of an Astarion backstory novel coming this year.

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Back in Black Ubisoft has rebuilt Black Flag "from the ground up" with a combat overhaul and stealth improvements but the same classic story.

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Life hacks All of the Sims 4 cheats for each expansion, all in one convenient place.

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News Life sim MMO Palia's next free expansion is just three weeks away and it's giving me the ranching update that Red Dead Online refused to.

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Browse the best A collection of great games you can play right in your browser.

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Cozy calendar Don't get a spring in your step just yet because this month's cozy game launches are all so cozy you might want to stay bundled up.

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Keep up with the latest guides to playing the new game drops and getting started in Minecraft.

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News We've officially entered an era of anti-cozy farm sims.

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Well-Tuned Seven years in the making, the developers of Eastshade are finally ready for us to play a tiny first taste of their cozy witch school life sim Songs of Glimmerwick.

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Seeing Green One In A Thousand: Clover Book is a mesmerizing replication of real life's most notorious hidden object challenge.

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Updated Great laptop games can run on low-spec PCs, fit cozily onto smaller screens, and are perfectly playable with a trackpad.

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SOMEDAY The Witcher 4 is definitely happening and will kick off its own new trilogy with Ciri on the front line.

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Star-studded Get up to lightspeed on Squadron 42's cast members and story details.

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Bioshook BioShock 4 may be in development, but brace yourself for a shakeup.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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News The Sims 4's original AI programmer always wanted to give sims the ability to plan their actions but it never stuck.

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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.

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News How did we get here?

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Eternally Online Long-in-the-works colony sim MMO Seed is shaping up into something that looks like EVE Online for RimWorld fans.

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The UVW-CWA is envisioning a base standard set of working conditions for all game developers.

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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.
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