Sophie Ulanoff

Sophie Ulanoff

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Sophie is a freelance gaming writer with a love for a large range of genres, honing in on indies, RPGs, and narrative adventures. If a game makes them cry, it immediately earns a spot among their favorites. They particularly enjoy spotlighting new indie games as well as discussing everything going on in the gaming world. When they're not writing, they're working through their massive backlog or possibly crocheting.

Latest articles by Sophie Ulanoff

God of War Laufey
The death of physical media made me fall back in love with my disc drive in 2026

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

Opinion While protests hit PlayStation, I bought a PS5 disc drive and second-hand games from a local shop

Opinion
God of War Laufey
God of War Laufey proves women are gaining ground in gaming and I'm glad Kratos is benched for now

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

Opinion Opinion | I support women's wrongs, rights, and being beautiful and playable in my video games

Opinion
Woman wearing bandana appears up-close in front of rocky waters and shipwrecks
Windrose balances brutal survival with cheat-style forgiveness in a way that keeps bringing me back

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

Features Now Playing | Land on an island, get my pirate ass handed to me, wake up at base, repeat

Features
1348 Ex Voto gameplay showing
1348 Ex Voto review: "Filled with potential, this action-adventure fails to deliver"

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

Review

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Stardew Valley at 10: How a decade in the countryside has helped long-distance relationships thrive

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

Features Feature | After sitting down with three gamer couples, I'm convinced Stardew Valley is the ultimate matchmaker

Features
No Man's Sky promotional images for the new Remnants expedition update
I became a space trash collector in No Man's Sky and fell in love with a community doing the same

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

Now Playing Now Playing | No Man's Sky is one of the most fulfilling communal experiences I've had in gaming in a long time

Now Playing
Oblivion Remastered's wildest bug made me choose between losing achievements or living as a fugitive

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

Now Playing Now Playing | A well-known bug sent me on a journey across the map in Oblivion Remastered and I will never break the law again

Now Playing
No Man's Sky Voyagers
Unemployment hurts less when No Man's Sky keeps handing out massive free updates, and Voyagers just gave me a really cool ship to sweeten the deal

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

Opinion Opinion | It's No Man's Sky's world, and we're just living in it

Opinion
In-game screenshots of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered
Oblivion Remastered proves I was wrong to give up on the original game 10 years ago, but I worry Bethesda has lost the magic that made Cyrodiil's open world RPG shine

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

Now Playing Now Playing | I've done myself a disservice in giving up on Oblivion all those years ago, and now I get it

Now Playing
A buggy, backwards face in Grounded 2.
Grounded 2 will follow its survival game predecessor's early access window, but the downside is "the game's not done and it's out to the world," which makes for horrifying bugs like this reverse face

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

News "But there's so much value in building it alongside the community."

News
Invincible VS reveal trailer screenshot showing Mark in the middle of a fight.
The game that Invincible's creator said made him "the most excited I've been about anything" in the franchise just got announced at Xbox Game Showcase

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

News Invincible VS will let you become a "superhero in the bloodiest fight in the universe"

News
Clockwork Revolution screenshot showing the vibrant steam-powered metropolis of Avalon
Bioshock-esque RPG Clockwork Revolution continues to look promising in new trailer, but we'll have to wait as the release date will be unveiled in "due time"

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

News Can we borrow that time manipulation mechanic to speed up its release date?

News
Splitgate 2
Splitgate 2 devs slash microtransaction prices and promise to refund the difference as the FPS looks to bounce back from 'Mixed' Steam reviews: "We hear you loud and clear"

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

News "We're working hard to deliver the best game possible"

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Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre in Hitman
Mads Mikkelsen says his roles in Death Stranding and Hitman both had "one thing" in common: "I had no idea what was going on"

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

News Honestly, do any of us ever know what's going on?

News
Link staring out at the skies in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player finishes the entire game with 100% completion in a single 136+ hour stream, and "only burst blood vessels in both my eyes" doing it

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

News The definition of what your unemployed friend is up to on a Tuesday, this guy just beat TOTK in one sitting even though no one told him to

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Deltarune mascot poses triumphantly on black background
Toby Fox urges streamers to "PLEASE dispute" any copyright claims they get over Undertale and Deltarune content, because his RPG music is so popular "it hit a threshold for increased copyright strike aggression. Not kidding"

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

News Fox wants streamers to know his popular tunes should not be subject to copyright strikes

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Key art for Gears of War.
Gears of War creator admits he can't explain a key event within one of his games: "Sometimes ya just put stuff in a game you think is cool"

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

News This will definitely go over well with diehard Gears of War fans

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News
Scum
After 6 years and 88,000 reviews in Steam early access, open-world survival craft game Scum finally has a 1.0 release date

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

News It took some time, but Scum is locked and loaded for full release

News
Screenshot from felt that boxing showing a puppet squaring up to a bigger puppet
Geoff Keighley can't help himself, pours gasoline on the memes as he unveils a real-time boxing game starring puppets: "You guys all know I love my puppets"

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

News I don't know what I just watched, but I'm here for it

News
The cow in Mario Kart World
Nintendo, what have you done: Moo Moo Cow has completely overtaken Mario Kart World lobbies as Switch 2 players embrace the best new character

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

News The most popular playable character in gaming right now is just a cow with a goofy smile

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Steam and Valve's Gabe Newell
Half-Life 3 obsessives put Valve boss Gabe Newell under the microscope, tracking his yacht as it gets kind of, sort of, actually not at all near the Summer Game Fest venue

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

News Is stalking wrong if it's for the sake of all gamerkind?

News
Clair Obscure Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Maelle actor and her real-life partner play the French JRPG for themselves, immediately hunt down the notorious "sex hotel" – "a perfect way to balance out the darkness"

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

News But what happens if you interact with the hotel 30 times?

News
Hands holding Nintendo Switch 2 and playing Mario Kart World
Confirmed: Nintendo has freed the F bomb and you can swear in Switch 2 speech-to-text GameChat

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

News The age-old tradition of cursing while gaming is elevated with the Switch 2's GameChat accessibility feature

News
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls
Marvel Tokon devs want to push the whole tag-team fighting game genre forward with 4v4, and insist it's not that overwhelming: "Wait, do I have to practice four characters just to win?"

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

News "One of the appeals of Marvel comics is seeing the vast cast of characters coming together to create all kinds of unique team-ups"

News
The Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion screenshot
Some Oblivion Remastered players were shocked to find Oblivion gates inside other Oblivion gates, but this is one of the RPG's old quirks that thankfully survived the remastering

By Sophie Ulanoff Published

News Not a bug: Oblivion features two random Oblivion worlds that have this oddity

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