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
![A person playing blackjack](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pwFB2yxFZkvSPYcvKsFDgU-320-80.jpg)
If you love how Balatro mutates the game of poker, Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers is doing something similar to blackjack, and there's a demo you can try now
By Christopher Livingston published
news Poker roguelike, meet Blackjack roguelike.
![A spaceship orbiting a planet](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Vz72T5vSGFyG2c8YVNpKth-320-80.jpg)
In this new No Man's Sky update you can 'explore an abandoned universe' alone with 'no other lifeforms, no shops, no help'
By Christopher Livingston published
news In Adrift you'll have to survive all by yourself.
![The Orange Box](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6gVNyi4CZoMDu9gytafoz3-320-80.jpg)
Great moments in PC gaming: That time Valve released three new games on the same day
By Christopher Livingston published
Halfortal 2 The Orange Box was a true anomaly.
![The scout, soldier, and heavy from TF2](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WXCauYx5iuX7NSjYhqLCE4-320-80.jpg)
I've got no interest in playing Valve's rumored Deadlock game, but I'll definitely be here for all the funny 'Meet the Team' movies they'll probably make about the characters
By Christopher Livingston published
Showtime As far as I'm concerned the sole purpose of this game is to deliver more of Valve's brilliant animated shorts to my eyeballs.
![A viking in a village](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/moTwLpp3xay5qz2fzNghuX-320-80.jpg)
In co-op Viking survival game Aska you can work smarter, not harder, by making your followers do all your chores
By Christopher Livingston published
News Meet Bjorn, Freya, and all the other loyal NPCs you can put to work in your village.
![A cat on a shop counter](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/oCey3NBqwzjrLfwUqGr8NL-320-80.jpg)
The follow-up to cozy detective game Strange Horticulture is called Strange Antiquities, and this time you'll run an occult artifact shop
By Christopher Livingston published
News Instead of plants you'll be examining strange artifacts while you try to unravel a mystery.
![A man fighting a monster](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5kmS695xkgoou8NCBrhaiA-320-80.jpg)
Survival base-builder Nightingale's offline mode has arrived—along with celebrities like Joan of Arc and Edgar Allan Poe
By Christopher Livingston published
News The very welcome change for solo players is live now.
![Sheep in a medieval village](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/FUEu8ASGcrdzWg8xWhGtRb-320-80.jpg)
Ewe wool love this: new Manor Lords patch means your farm 'no longer spawns sheep exponentially'
By Christopher Livingston published
News A fix for a baaaad problem has arrived on Manor Lords' new experimental branch.
![A dog](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/w5M66WxnrSPw9s9C5XyqkC-320-80.jpg)
If you hire me to train your dog I'll get soap in its eyes, pat it with a severed hand, and teach it to disembowel your enemies
By Christopher Livingston published
blood hound What's your favorite dog trick? Play dead? Or… kill?
![A survivor in the cold holding a gun](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8HChNC7yZUwyf4nTeWzh3-320-80.jpg)
Survival game The Long Dark announces 'the first change to our permadeath system that we’ve ever made'
By Christopher Livingston published
news The Long Dark's next chapter also brings an interesting new "alpha predator" and ultra-hardcore "misery mode."
![The Sims 4 - Eliza Pancakes sits at her computer playing Sims Forever](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/7QjSuB7W5JP7fMg6gBS95E-320-80.png)
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.
![A medieval village](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fWkTXFm67Sk9w9vfKXRDsG-320-80.jpg)
The idea that the Manor Lords dev should 'just hire 50 people' to update it faster is 'fundamentally not the way things work,' says publisher
By Tyler Wilde published
news "The best growth is very slow. It's keeping the core vision intact."
![Manor Lords tavern - Peasants walking through town](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UtKpoGq9SuhLrEVpTzXv4d-320-80.jpg)
Manor Lords publisher says the game's success is 'well beyond what we could have hoped'
By Rich Stanton published
news "But ultimately Greg's making the decisions and driving the development: he is the developer."
![A khajiit character in Morrowind in a house](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZVP9by9GNW7Ecu7urCF8Y7-320-80.jpg)
Skywind, the ambitious mod remaking Morrowind in Skyrim, has over 3,000 characters—three times as many as the original Skyrim
By Christopher Livingston published
News A new 30 minute video lays out the history and progress of the mod, but there's still no release date.
![A Fallout show character eating popcorn while watching TV](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/i2JN8gnKgrfBdThd8zuxF-320-80.jpg)
That's rad: with 65 million viewers, the Fallout show is Amazon's biggest hit since The Rings of Power
By Christopher Livingston published
news A lot of people irradiated their eyeballs by watching Prime TV's Fallout series.
![A medieval village](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/E8iTd2fgYgpm384FEFMjTU-320-80.jpg)
Manor Lords shatters Steam city builder record with over 170,000 concurrent players
By Christopher Livingston published
news The early access survival city builder has already sold over 1 million copies.
![A villager in a medieval city](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/39RV38Swd4km7KFgto3EUE-320-80.jpg)
Manor Lords players delighted to discover a villager with an NSFW name, but the developer says it's historically accurate
By Christopher Livingston published
News Sometimes he's a gravedigger, sometimes he's a farmer, and sometimes he's even an ox—but he's already a celebrity.
![Manor Lords tips - A medieval village](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/BVffK9rMf6VqRCHFmjJWLD-320-80.jpg)
Our top 10 Manor Lords tips for thriving in the survival city builder
By Christopher Livingston published
Town Haul How to make your first town a prosperous one.
![A medieval village](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/E8iTd2fgYgpm384FEFMjTU-320-80.jpg)
Manor Lords won't let me get away with my usual survival city builder cheese strats, so I guess I'm actually gonna have to become a competent mayor
By Christopher Livingston published
Lord help us From bees to bloomeries to bandits, I'm trying to get rich quick.
![A viking at a settlement in the woods](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CVyqtFD5K8uAeL6QsGWwmm-320-80.jpg)
This co-op Viking survival game is a lot different than Valheim because you can recruit NPCs, assign them jobs, and occasionally devour their souls
By Christopher Livingston published
crafty Build a settlement and assemble a Viking tribe in Aska.
![Two people in a vault at a desk smiling as they look at something](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QhE3ygQDorNjXZ7iSWRAPi-320-80.jpg)
18 times the Fallout show was exactly like a videogame
By Tyler Wilde published
game logic The show takes a hilariously literal approach to adapting the Fallout games.
![RoboCop in GTA 5](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iTy2jgmgSW2o34ZhFpryJd-320-80.jpg)
The best GTA 5 mods
By Christopher Livingston, Joe Donnelly, Rick Lane, Heather Newman last updated
New and updated! Our favourite tweaks include forests in San Andreas and more than 50 new heists.
![Fallout characters](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PBauoMowBZqfxZLoc5WJ88-320-80.jpg)
What we want to see in Fallout season 2: Deathclaw fights, aliens and a lot more Norm
By Fraser Brown published
Back to the Wasteland Our hopes and dreams for the second season.