Lauren Morton

Lauren Morton

Associate Editor

Lauren started writing for PC Gamer as a freelancer in 2017 while chasing the Dark Souls fashion police and accepted her role as Associate Editor and Chief Minecraft Liker in 2021. She originally started her career in game development and is still fascinated by how games tick in the modding and speedrunning scenes. She likes long books, longer RPGs, multiplayer cryptids, and can't stop playing co-op crafting games.

Articles by: Lauren Morton

Minecraft - a player holds an artefact while standing beside a camel in a desert.

Minecraft's first mob vote candidate for this year is a tiny, handy crab

By Lauren Morton published

News We'll be voting for our next Minecraft creature again this year and the first contender is a crab.

a knight character holding a red sword in Project Crawl

Watch out, Dark and Darker: Suddenly there's another dungeon extraction game hitting PC, Project Crawl

By Lauren Morton published

News Another PvP fantasy extraction game is about to start alpha playtesting.

Concept art of Solas for Dragon Age 4

Former BioWare manager wishes Dragon Age had kept a 'PC-centric' and 'modding-driven' identity like Neverwinter Nights

By Lauren Morton published

News Aaryn Flynn wishes that BioWare had stuck to shipping modding tools with Dragon Age games.

We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip trailer - two players in winter coats and goggles steer a ship together through a storm

A surprise sequel to my favorite co-op game just launched and you have a month to claim it for free

By Lauren Morton published

News The We Were Here series has a new bite-size offshoot called Expeditions for series newcomers.

Fae Farm title screen, several characters gather round one casting a spell with a wand in a grassy, pastoral town

Fae Farm magically solved all my little gripes with cozy farm sims

By Lauren Morton published

Fresh Farming This super cute farm sim really nails how to do the crucial first hours right.

Two characters in spacesuits look at the camera

Following Skyrim tradition, Starfield already has an alternate start mod that lets you skip the intro and begin in cooler parts of space

By Lauren Morton published

News There are already two mods for giving you a different entry point to Starfield's world.

The Sims 4- a white man with blonde hair wearing a blue sport coat crosses his arms and smiles

The next Sims game will be free to play without a subscription or energy mechanics, EA confirms

By Lauren Morton published

News After rumors this summer, we officially know the next major Sims game is going to be free to download.

Frame of an animation by Joel Haver of a man in a space suit sitting in a cockpit surrounded by succulent plants

Bethesda commissioned the internet's rotoscope jokester to get goofy with Starfield

By Lauren Morton published

News The mind behind all those weird RPG skits has a succulent take on Starfield.

Starfield - thousands of blocks of cheese spill out of the hatch of a cockpit

Inspired by Starfield food physics, I have run my own tests to determine that cuboid foods rule

By Lauren Morton published

News Heard you all like watching food move.

Starfield, Andreja looks angry, sitting at a desk

AITA: My Starfield wife wants a divorce and all I did was chuck one grenade into a crowd of bystanders

By Lauren Morton published

News And telling her to "calm down" didn't help, somehow.

Starfield — a close-up screenshot of a helmeted spacefarer, with a moon visible in the starscape behind

Starfield speedrunner engages ludicrous speed, completes New Game+ in under an hour

By Lauren Morton published

News And he thinks he can still shave almost 20 minutes off that time.

Starfield, a ship airlock door is open, thousands of brown russet potatoes fall out into the hallway

Starfield player stuffs thousands of potatoes into a room to marvel at how much better Bethesda's physics have gotten

By Lauren Morton published

News This will surely be the first of many item spill space simulations.

Starifled - a player holds their arms out, encompassing all the junk on the floor of their spaceship

Surprising no one, Starfield players are already filling their ships with junk

By Lauren Morton published

News When you've absolutely got to grab every space wrench, your ship fills up fast.

Starfield — a spacesuit-wearing character gestures broadly with arms spread open on an empty lunar surface. A blue, ringed world is visible in the sky behind

Starfield guide: everything you need to succeed in space

By Lauren Morton last updated

Star Chart We'll walk you through everything from your first character creation selections to your eventual journey into New Game+.

Starfield - a person in a spacesuit looks at a ring planet

Starfield release time: when it unlocked in your time zone

By Lauren Morton last updated

Launch Time Your Starfield launch time depends on the version you purchased and your time zone.

Baldur's Gate 3 - Jaheira with a glowing green sword looks ready for battle

We scientifically ranked Baldur's Gate 3's party members on hotness, toughness, and meme-ability

By Lauren Morton published

RANKED An objectively correct PC Gamer team ranking of all 10 Baldur's Gate 3 companions.

Palia - a player claps standing in front of a night market stall full of chapaa plushies

Palia's first seasonal event adds exactly the kind of communal minigame I was hoping for

By Lauren Morton published

News The nightly Maji Market is a good initial take on a typical MMO season event.

Dark and Darker - three teammates stand in a castle room by torchlight

Dark and Darker wiped player progress today due to an influx of cheaters

By Lauren Morton published

News The PvP dungeon crawl wiped progress today but also brought back voice chat.

Stardew Valley

This Wordle-like game makes you catch and guess Stardew Valley's fish

By Lauren Morton published

News This is not the Wordle-like game I was expecting next.

Victorian people coming out of magic portal

2024 games: All the PC games scheduled for launch next year

By Lauren Morton last updated

Upcoming 2024 isn't that far off now, so take a look ahead at what's confirmed for the PC release schedule.

Spaceship flying

You can launch Starfield as early as August 31, its global release times confirm

By Lauren Morton published

News Bethesda has shared the global launch timing for Starfield beginning with the early access for Premium Edition buyers.

Return to Moria LOTR survival game

The Lord of the Rings game we're actually excited to play is coming in October

By Lauren Morton published

News The more I hear about Return to Moria, the more I'm digging it.

Image for Beware the corpse nuke that can end your Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough with a bang

Beware the corpse nuke that can end your Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough with a bang

By Lauren Morton published

News The party wipe is coming from inside the house.

Crimson Desert - Kliff crosses blades with an enemy, looking strained, while wearing another sword and shield on his back

Medieval skydiving is not even the weirdest thing Crimson Desert crammed into this exhaustive new trailer

By Lauren Morton published

News The weirdest thing was playing the pipes for that crowd of little blobs.

Nightingale - A character in a white and gold mask with an elaborate collar .

Gamescom Opening Night Live roundup: every PC game trailer and announcement

By Lauren Morton published

Roundup Here's every game trailer and announcement for games and updates coming to PC.

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