
Christopher Livingston
Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so he'd stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He's also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so he can make up his own.
Latest articles by Christopher Livingston

This new 4-player co-op 'doomsday shooter' is free to own forever during its first 24 hours on Steam
By Christopher Livingston published
News In Guntouchables, battle mobs of mutants to secure the most important supplies of the post-apocalypse: beer and toilet paper.

Will someone please sit with me when I play this super creepy game about examining dozens of old photos for evidence of g-g-ghosts?
By Christopher Livingston published
News I'm too scared to play it alone.

Think you can guess the PC game just from its crates? Try to smash our latest quiz!
By Christopher Livingston published
checkbox I bet you'll do a crate job.

I thought it was a cute and casual little mining sim right up until it devoured my entire morning
By Christopher Livingston published
News In Gemporium: A Cute Mining Sim, you've gotta dig up gems until you've got a mole-ian dollars. That's a pun on million. Because you're a mole.

The 'Compiling Shaders' screen is the worst screen in gaming: here's how to make it suck less
By Christopher Livingston published
Gripes Week I'm tired of staring at screens telling me that only 1,239 of 22,594 shaders have been compiled. What happened to reticulating splines?

Setting up trade routes is gaming catnip to me, so I'm pouncing on this beautiful city builder on Steam that has some strong Catan vibes
By Christopher Livingston published
News Let Them Trade is a chill builder that takes place on a virtual tabletop.

The best Steam Deck games
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Steam On The games everyone should have installed on Valve's gaming handheld.

Among Us 3D is adding a new limited-time feature I haven't thought about in 20 years: VIP mode
By Christopher Livingston published
News I haven't played VIP since way, way back in Team Fortress Classic, and I just realized I miss it.

5 stealthy lessons the live-action Assassin's Creed Netflix series could learn from the clumsy live-action Assassin's Creed movie
By Christopher Livingston published
Make Hay (With a little help from A Minecraft Movie.)

How well do you know Balatro's jokers? Try to ace our latest quiz!
By Christopher Livingston published
Joker Poker Ante up! Let's see if you're a true card sharp or just a flop.

Dune: Awakening is testing out a fix for ornithopter griefing and making an unforgivable change to flour sand farming
By Christopher Livingston published
News The new patch on the public test client will run for two weeks before it hits the main game.

Quarantine Zone was almost a zombie-free sim about managing a warehouse
By Christopher Livingston published
News You could have been scanning boxes instead of scanning people for signs of the zombie plague.

Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game review: Great cozy cooking, but not enough else to be hobbit-forming
By Christopher Livingston published
Short Order Make friends with food.

Quarantine Zone creator reveals 3 reasons the zombie sim went viral on TikTok
By Christopher Livingston published
News Get it? Viral?

Dune: Awakening 'temporarily' disables Steam Family Sharing, potentially through the end of 2025: 'We have unfortunately seen this feature abused frequently'
By Christopher Livingston published
News "We are actively working on changes that will allow us to re-enable the system as soon as possible."

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check has been wishlisted on Steam 1 million times, and will be published in November by Devolver Digital
By Christopher Livingston published
News The "apocalyptic admin simulator" is already a hit, just based on a demo.

'People hate it. It's very annoying. It's like a boss in Dark Souls': Quarantine Zone's biggest source of negative feedback is that dang supply cart
By Christopher Livingston published
News "Half of negative demo reviews contain the word 'cart,'" says Brigada Games CEO Stas Starykh.

At long last and 'with gracious permission from Valve,' Garry's Mod now contains 'most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content' even if you don't own those games
By Christopher Livingston published
News Players should no longer see pink checkerboards or giant ERROR models when they "play on community maps that expect you to have this content."

Square Enix's new murder party game is like Among Us in a mansion, with a hefty helping of team deathmatch
By Christopher Livingston published
Killer Party Will you kill, or be killed?

Guy with 35,000 hours in Ark: Survival Evolved gives it a negative Steam review: 'How do I get a refund!!'
By Christopher Livingston published
News "You had something great. Hope you don't choke on your GREED!!!"

The best Oblivion Remastered mods
By Christopher Livingston last updated
mod squad Improved performance, better visuals, and gameplay tweaks can be yours for the remastered classic RPG.

Skyrim console commands: cheats for an unbeatable Dragonborn
By Christopher Livingston last updated
Guide God mode, noclip, and and maxed out skills are just a few Skyrim console commands away.

Games like Wordle you should add to your daily playlist
By Christopher Livingston last updated
Alphabet Soup These games like Wordle are bound to scratch the itch if one puzzle a day isn't enough.
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