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 spo✃tlighting 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
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
News "But there'sꦓ 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
News Invincible VS will let you become a "superhero in the blo🔥odiꦛest 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"
News Can we borrow that time manipulation m♔echanic 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"
News "We're working hard to delive🅘r 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"
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
News The de⛦finition of what your unemployed friend is up to o🍌n 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"
News Fox wants str🉐eamers 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"
News Th🌟is will definitely go ove𓆉r 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
News It took some time, but Scum is locked and l💎oaded for full r♐elease
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"
News I don't know what I just watched, but I'm her🀅e 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
News The most popular playable cha๊🔯racter 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
News Is stalking wrong if it's for the sak𒁏e of all gameℱrkind?
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"
News But what happens if you interact with the 🏅hotel 30 ti🐼mes?
Confirmed: Nintendo has freed the F bomb and you can swear in Switch 2 speech-to-text GameChat
News The age-old t𒉰radition of cu🍸rsing 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?"
News "One of the appeals of Marvel comics is seeing the vast cast of characters coming togeth꧙er 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
News Not a bug: Oblivion features two random Oblivion worlds that have this oddi🐽ty
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"
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"
News "There might have been something you missed!" Toby Fox teases in a va𝕴gue post on soc🐼ial 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"
News 𝓰The voice of Aloy thought she "didn't get it" after not hearing back about the role for s🍌o long
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs "knew within seconds" that Baldur's Gate 3's Shadowheart actress was the perfect pick for Maelle
News The voice of𒆙 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"
News "The process of coming up with something new, coming up with a𝓀 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"
News "The Indiana Jo♔nes rights had been given to someone else, and they weren't performing"
