
Sophie Ulanoff
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

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

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."

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"

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?

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"

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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?

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

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"

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

Baldur's Gate 3 player tragically loses 50-hour Honor Mode save in Act 3 to some rain that Larian added in just to screw with us: "Hate my favorite game so much"
By Sophie Ulanoff published
News "Safe to say I'm going to cry myself to sleep tonight."

After breaking Steam, Deltarune dev Toby Fox appears to aim to break the internet: "After you finish Chapter 4, make sure to load up your save file one more time afterwards"
By Sophie Ulanoff published
News "There might have been something you missed!" Toby Fox teases in a vague post on social media

Horizon Zero Dawn star Ashly Burch says she had no idea if she'd actually been cast as Aloy until she was suddenly in the recording booth: "It really hit me in that moment, like, oh this is a big deal"
By Sophie Ulanoff published
News The voice of Aloy thought she "didn't get it" after not hearing back about the role for so long

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs "knew within seconds" that Baldur's Gate 3's Shadowheart actress was the perfect pick for Maelle
By Sophie Ulanoff published
News The voice of this Baldur's Gate 3 favorite was a no-brainer for the Clair Obscur devs

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto says game devs should "try to do something that nobody's done before" because chasing trends is "going to be stressful"
By Sophie Ulanoff published
News "The process of coming up with something new, coming up with a new experience, is very fun"

"9 months to finish the whole game": Years before The Great Circle, Indiana Jones was dropped on the Monkey Island creator when another studio "wasn't actually making the game"
By Sophie Ulanoff published
News "The Indiana Jones rights had been given to someone else, and they weren't performing"
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