Latest articles by Christopher Livingston
Wagon is a 1-bit card-based spiritual successor to survival classic The Oregon Trail, and wastes no time getting right into the cannibalism
News Dysentery is the least of your worries.
Oblivion Remastered looks so good that I can't believe I'm saying this: I kinda hope Bethesda remasters Skyrim (again) too
Alteration I wouldn't have said this a week ago, but in the wake of Oblivion's shiny new facelift, Skyrim suddenly feels pretty drab.
Getting around in Dune: Awakening is a blast thanks to grappling hooks, suspensors, and the ability to climb literally anything
Sky's the limit Who even needs an ornithopter?
After 25 hours of the Dune: Awakening beta, I'm sold on it as a survival game but still a bit iffy on the MMO parts
Spicy Crafting and resource management is compelling, but the wider world has yet to grab me.
Water is so precious in the Dune: Awakening beta I wound up treating innocent scavengers like my personal juice boxes
wet work Feeling a bit thirsty? Lock and load.
Don't worry, Oblivion Remastered's NPCs are still charmingly ugly, they're just ugly in next-gen ways
News The new facelifts didn't make them hot or bland, as we feared: now Cyrodiil's citizens have a whole new type of disquieting charm.
Oblivion Remastered live coverage: Launch info, reactions, and latest news
News It's time for a Cyrodiil homecoming.
How to join the Dark Brotherhood in Oblivion
Contracts Here are the steps you need to take to join the mysterious assassin's guild.
How excited are we to replay a shinier version of Oblivion 19 years later?
TESIV Oblivion is a safe pick for the remaster treatment, sandwiched between the more flavorful Morrowind and more popular Skyrim.
The new trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps finally shows us stretchy Pedro Pascal (but only for about two seconds)
News C'mon, Marvel, we know Mr. Fantastic's rubbery noodle body looks goofy as hell. You can't hide it forever.
Co-op submarine survival simulator Barotrauma has a free weekend on Steam, so dive in with friends and experience the most comically horrifying deaths you can imagine
News It's the first free weekend for the submarine horror game since it went 1.0 in 2023.
You should buy our favorite co-op survival game of 2024 on sale now for $20—because the price goes up to $35 in May
News Abiotic Factor is getting a $10 price increase just before it's 1.0 launch, but you can save $15 if you grab it in April.
Valheim cheats: All codes and console commands to wield godly power
Godlike Valheim cheats to enable god mode, add skill points, spawn items, and more.
Phil Spencer says not every game has to have 'a movie or a TV show' tie-in, but promises 'you're going to see more' adaptations of Microsoft games
News "The videogame business is successful by itself. It doesn’t need this outlet," says the CEO of Microsoft Gaming.
Dune: Awakening: Everything we know about Funcom's survival MMO
Spicy The spice must flow in the alt-history Dune MMO.
Balatro's publisher beat gold stakes and the Jokerless challenge so quickly it even surprised LocalThunk: 'How did you do this so fast?'
News "I sent him the video of the score, going, like, screw you. Yeah, I got it!" said Playstack's Wout van Halderen.
Blue Prince tips: 10 useful tricks for mastering the mysterious mansion
house call Before you set foot in the ever-changing mansion, here's some spoiler-free advice to make things easier.
My favorite thing about Blue Prince's intricate puzzles is that they're optional—you don't have to solve most of them to finish the game
Thinker A puzzle in a game is often presented as a brick wall: no passing this point until you solve it. Blue Prince doesn't work that way.
Gamble or die in a 'never-ending debt simulator' that plays like Balatro spliced with a demonic slot machine
News CloverPit combines a slot machine with Balatro-like upgrades and progress, and there's a demo you can try now.
'Why just shoot your enemies when you can tear down the world around them?' Battle an endless cycle of evil machines in this FPS that features 'total environmental destruction'
news Void/Breaker, from the maker of The Entropy Centre, pits you against an army of robots controlled by an all-seeing AI.
Enshrouded's next update promises a 'rebirth of the shroud,' with new monsters, resources, and a whole new weapon customization system
News Keen Games felt the shrouded areas were "not strong enough," so they're being overhauled.
Barotrauma developer unveils its next co-op survival game: a dieselpunk FPS where your mobile fortress is a train
News No submarine this time: scavenge resources and battle abominations as you upgrade your locomotive in Fakefish's next game, Frostrail.
