
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

Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul made superhero adventure Dispatch his first ever videogame acting role because the script was 'so honest and poetic and just raw'
By Christopher Livingston published
News Paul plays Mecha Man, a hero who has lost his armored suit and now works in an office with former villains.

Netflix's Splinter Cell: Deathwatch has already been picked up for a second season
By Christopher Livingston published
News The animated series dropped on Tuesday and Season 2 was confirmed on Wednesday.

Yep, I get why this co-op RPG sandbox that's part Minecraft, part Skyrim, and also has airships, is one of the most played demos on Steam Next Fest
By Christopher Livingston published
News Craft, fight, loot, build, and explore in the demo for sandbox RPG Everwind.

It's our biggest quiz yet: how many Steam game genres and sub-genres can you name?
By Christopher Livingston published
tag! There are well over a hundred, so I'll give you plenty of time to guess.

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch director wishes he had 'the security clearance' to get us info about Ubisoft's Splinter Cell remake
By Christopher Livingston published
News Stealth action games like Splinter Cell and Hitman "are very much my jam" says director Guillaume Dousse.

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch review: Netflix's animated series brings Sam Fisher out of retirement
By Christopher Livingston published
Winter Cell Expect more action than stealth from Sam Fisher in Netflix's animated series.

The Sims 4 cheats: Every cheat code and life hack you need
By Lauren Morton last updated
Updated! All of the Sims 4 cheats for each expansion, all in one convenient place.

Wordle comes to Cyberpunk 2077, only it's better because it accepts Night City slang like 'CHOOM' and 'GONKS'
By Christopher Livingston published
News Preem. Dorph. Corpo. Ganic. These could all be answers in the Gonkle mod.

Games like Wordle: Here's 12 more daily word games to satisfy your puzzle cravings
By Christopher Livingston last updated
Puzzlers If you're looking for more daily word puzzles, we've got you covered.

Can you ID these videogames just from their food? Take our latest, tastiest quiz!
By Christopher Livingston published
Cook Put your brain (and stomach) to the test.

Shai Hulud defanged: In Dune: Awakening, your vehicles are no longer permanently lost if a sandworm eats them
By Christopher Livingston published
News A new patch lets you recover your swallowed rides, though there's a catch. And a cost.

The first gameplay footage from Astroneer studio's next space game looks like co-op chaos on colorful planets, but I'm not crazy about the idea of timed missions in a hangout game
By Christopher Livingston published
news A ticking clock on every single mission doesn't particularly appeal to me.

Think you know gaming? Test your knowledge with PC Gamer's fiendish quizzes
By Robin Valentine last updated
QUIZ All our brain-teasers in one place.

Co-op dino survival horror game Deathground prepares to launch with one final reminder that, no, 'you won't be able to play as a dinosaur'
By Christopher Livingston published
News "Maybe it's something we can do at another time. Who knows what the future holds?"

This 'brutally honest' city builder features greedy landlords, cutthroat corporations, and a newspaper that gives you 'a constant reminder that your citizens' bad luck is perhaps your fault'
By Christopher Livingston published
News "Tax rates feed the treasury and starve the people. The simulation now whispers the uncomfortable truth: every service has a cost."

Dying Light: The Beast players have killed enough zombies in two weeks to equal a quarter of the world's population
By Christopher Livingston published
News But they only kicked 176 million of them. That's not nearly enough kicking, Kyles!

If you missed Master Chief having sex on Paramount+ now you can see Master Chief having sex on Netflix
By Christopher Livingston published
News The Halo TV series has translocated to a slipstreaming platform you might actually be subscribed to.

One of my favorite survival city builders is leaving early access this month, so here's your chance to buy it before the price goes up
By Christopher Livingston published
News It's on sale now for 25% off, too.

Can you guess the game based only on a blurb from a Steam review? Take our quiz and see if you score a thumbs up!
By Christopher Livingston published
Helpful We're (overwhelmingly) positive you'll do great on this quiz.

The best deals in the 2025 Steam Autumn Sale
By Tyler Wilde published
deals New games on sale, hidden gems, and cheap classics.

In co-op open world survival game Join Us, you run a doomsday cult whose belief system is like 'a dynamic skill tree that evolves as the game goes on'
By Christopher Livingston published
News Keep your followers content as the world comes to an end in this comedic take on the survival genre.

Light No Fire: Everything we know about Hello Games' planet-sized survival game
By Christopher Livingston last updated
Warm-Up Sean Murray's follow-up to an infinite sci-fi universe is a single planet—but it's a big one.

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.
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