
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

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.

Farming Simulator 25 finally figures out what the rest of us already knew: you gotta have some fishing in your farming game
By Christopher Livingston published
News And this being Farming Sim, you'll grow the fish yourself when the Highlands Fishing expansion comes out this fall.

Today's Dune: Awakening patch takes another sidestep away from the PvP-heavy endgame
By Christopher Livingston published
News The Deep Desert keeps getting more friendly to players who want to avoid PvP.

I played 10 free Steam demos this week: here are the 5 games that made it onto my wishlist
By Christopher Livingston published
Wishlist Load up your wishlist—a lot of great games are headed your way.

Today's Dune: Awakening patch notes are as long as a sandworm, with more than 300 changes, bug fixes, and squashed exploits
By Christopher Livingston published
News Changes include adjustments to 'thopter speed and those annoying antigravity bubbles, plus it's now easier to jump into a vehicle when you're panicking.

Quiz time! Can you guess which games these 10 ridiculous patch notes are from?
By Christopher Livingston published
BUG HUNT Put your patch note prowess to the test with a quiz!

I'm diagnosing survivors of a zombie apocalypse and only occasionally mistaking cold symptoms for the zombie plague in this military base management sim
By Christopher Livingston published
Outbreak Manage a military base and examine survivors for sickness in the demo for Quarantine Zone: The Last Check.

This new 'roguelike deckbuilding typing game' is like Mavis Beacon Teaches Balatro, and I'm here for it
By Christopher Livingston published
News In TypInc. you hammer out paragraphs as quickly and correctly as possible while using perks and multipliers to score big.

DayZ's biggest map ever is coming next year, where 'Middle Eastern-style cities lie next to Soviet-era military bases'
By Christopher Livingston published
News The 267x267 km map is called Badlands, set in the Nasdara province of ArmA's fictional country of Takistan.

The best deals in the 2025 Steam Summer Sale
By Tyler Wilde published
deals New games on sale, hidden gems, and super cheap classics in Steam's big mid-year sale.

Dune director Denis Villeneuve will direct the next Bond film for Amazon MGM, despite already being attached to four other upcoming films, including Cleopatra
By Christopher Livingston published
News Denis is a busy boy, so when will he have time for Bond?

That was quick! Funcom just patched Dune: Awakening to make the Deep Desert only 50% PvP
By Christopher Livingston last updated
News In a major change for the survival MMO, Funcom has split the Deep Desert evenly between PvP and PvE zones.

This grand strategy autobattler inspired by classics like Heroes of Might and Magic comes to life through 'hundreds of handmade oil painted illustrations'
By Christopher Livingston published
News Erulean Angel: Fantasy Commander is the first game from the two-person team at Second Studio.

Doing a victory lap, Dune: Awakening publisher reveals that 1 million players have already huffed 6 billion grams of spice
By Harvey Randall published
News Dune: Awakening is now "Funcom's fastest selling game ever."

Dune: Awakening review: Spicy survival with an uneven endgame
By Christopher Livingston published
Spice Jam Craft, explore, and fight for your life on Arrakis in Funcom's survival MMO.

The best Baldur's Gate 3 mods
By Tyler Wilde last updated
MODS Buff yourself up for a lone wolf run, or if that's not your style, maybe buff up your party with eight characters? Mods make many things possible.
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