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
Sorry, but the 8-hour demo of co-op survival RPG Enshrouded isn't long enough for me
By Christopher Livingston published
Shroud Atlas Base-building, traversal with grapplers and wingsuits, and a big, mysterious open world has me wanting more. Now.
The top 100 PC games
By Phil Savage published
Class of 2023 PC Gamer's annual list of the best games you can play on PC.
A heroic Starfield modder just straight-up deleted those repetitive temple 'puzzles' from the game
By Christopher Livingston published
News Chasing a buncha blinking lights in zero-G was enjoyable once. Once.
Save a busy village from the apocalypse in this 'merciless' survival city builder
By Christopher Livingston published
News The apocalypse is nigh in this turn-based roguelike—can you build a city strong enough to survive it?
Todd Howard says Starfield was 'made to be played for a long time,' but a month after launch I'm already drifting away
By Christopher Livingston published
light-month Bethesda's biggest RPG wound up feeling a lot smaller than its earlier ones.
Starfield mod lets you loot corpses down to their undies just like Skyrim and Fallout 4
By Christopher Livingston published
news Corpses are now fully lootable, from spacesuits to helmets to clothing.
Listen: This modder dealt 39 distinct farts to Skyrim along with hilarious reactions from those who smelt them
By Christopher Livingston published
news "Something's just felt wrong down there lately."
This modder made such a great change to Starfield's food it's actually making me hungry
By Christopher Livingston published
news It's kind of amazing how much presentation matters when it comes to meals.
3 of the 5 top wishlisted Steam games are city builders, and I want to play them all
By Christopher Livingston published
big plans Despite sharing a genre, they're all vastly different games.
If the phrase 'open world survival shopkeeping game' intrigues you, let Saleblazers take over your weekend
By Christopher Livingston published
News Explore the world, fight monsters and bad guys, all in service of running your own shop.
Bethesda just released a new Elder Scrolls mobile game that's basically Fallout Shelter meets Skyrim
By Christopher Livingston published
News The Elder Scrolls: Castles is currently only on Android, and apparently only in the US.
Starfield's infinite weapon glitch is your path to farming epic guns
By Christopher Livingston published
News Like pulling a rabbit out of a hat, you can pull a gun from an empty display case. Here's how the magic works.
Some Starfield players are trying to solve a mysterious puzzle that might not actually be a mysterious puzzle
By Christopher Livingston published
News Is the strange "Cube" with dots on it a puzzle to be solved? Or just a decoration?
The next game from Dave the Diver studio Mintrocket is… a 16-player PvP zombie survival game?
By Christopher Livingston published
News Nakwon: Last Paradise is a zombie stealth survival game set in Seoul, with a pre-alpha coming later this year.
Todd Howard says Starfield's planetary survival systems were originally 'very punitive' but 'we just nerfed the hell out of it'
By Christopher Livingston published
news Dealing with afflictions and hostile planetary conditions used to be "a pretty complex" system but it was heavily scaled back.
Starfield mod lets you zip between planets seamlessly
By Christopher Livingston published
news You can fly between planets in outer space with this mod, with no cinematics or loading screens.
Starfield update patches out loot exploits, 'larger update' with DLSS support, FOV slider still in the works
By Christopher Livingston published
news A small update released today fixes a few bugs but a more major update is on the way.
Starfield hero adds New Atlantis map to New Atlantis
By Christopher Livingston published
News Well, well, well… by which I mean you can finally find the elevator to the Well without a quest arrow.
Starfield Earth landmarks: How to find New York, London, Hong Kong, and more
By Christopher Livingston published
star tour Where to find every Starfield Earth landmark, plus the ones on the moon and Mars, along with the souvenier snow globes that go with them.
The best Starfield mods
By Tyler Wilde last updated
Mods in Space Get a better UI, skip annoying cutscenes, make enemies less spongy, and more with Starfield mods.
The best Starfield quests, from corporate espionage to Alien-inspired horror
By Fraser Brown published
Stellar Hop in your ship and hunt down these unmissable adventures.
The creator of Fallout 4's best settlement mod says Starfield's outpost system 'basically makes the people meaningless'
By Christopher Livingston published
News King Gath, creator of the Sim Settlements mod series for Fallout 4, sees room for improvement in Starfield's outpost system.
If you finish Starfield 4 or 5 times, some seriously weird s*** starts happening
By Christopher Livingston published
restart Starfield's New Game+ is full of bizarre sci-fi surprises, if you've got the patience to repeatedly beat the game.