Latest articles by Lauren Morton
The ethically-sourced wizard school life sim I've been waiting for finally has a playable demo and launches this year
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.
Oh you think you know hidden object games? Then go find a four-leaf clover in the hardest cozy game I've ever seen
Seeing Green One In A Thousand: Clover Book is a mesmerizing replication of real life's most notorious hidden object challenge.
The best laptop games
Updated Great laptop games can run on low-spec PCs, fit cozily onto smaller screens, and are perfectly playable with a trackpad.
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.
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.
The Witcher 4: What we know about the start of a new trilogy
SOMEDAY The Witcher 4 is definitely happening and will kick off its own new trilogy with Ciri on the front line.
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.
