Latest articles by Christopher Livingston
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.
Blue Prince foundation elevator: how to use it
Guide There's an elevator in Blue Prince's foundation room: here are some hints and a full solution on how to get inside it.
Black Mirror Season 7 has an episode about a sim game where you take care of cute little creatures, and here's the twist: it's a real game you can play right now
News Gosh, they sure are cute. There's definitely no dark side to this.
It took me 25 hours to 'finish' puzzle strategy game Blue Prince—and 15 hours after that I'm still uncovering new mysteries
Key Discovery The mysterious mansion offers up new puzzles around every corner, long after I thought it was done.
Blue Prince dartboard puzzle: how it works and how to solve it
Bullseye The billiards room in Blue Prince has a mathematical dartboard puzzle that gets a bit harder every time you complete it.
Black Mirror Season 7's biggest nightmare is one we're all familiar with: the horrors of monthly subscription services
Cloudy We own nothing and stream everything: Game Pass. Spotify. Netflix. What's next?
How a hardcore survival game morphed into an open world town-builder where you play as a corgi mech pilot
News Animalkind went from hardcore to cottagecore.
Blue Prince review: this elaborate and elegant strategy adventure is one of the best puzzle games in years
Open House Unravel the mysteries of a mansion, room by room, in Blue Prince.
After being laid off from his triple-A 'dream job', this developer made a game about a disgruntled ex-employee seeking revenge on the corporate world
News In Vindefiant, your character "unleashes his powers and sparks a path of rage and destruction to get revenge on his former employer."
Dune: Awakening will have in-game radio stations featuring everything from Harkonnen propaganda broadcasts to classic '90s Dune tunes
News There will also be a "full multi-episode radio play."
A Minecraft Movie review roundup: some say it's 'okay,' others say 'it isn't actively boring'
News Most critics seem to think Jack Black's blocky blockbuster is a bit mid.
Here's what happens to your base in Dune: Awakening if you take a long break from Arrakis
News It's not the same base decay system found in Funcom's other sandy survival game, Conan Exiles.
'I'll believe it when I see it' says Josef Fares about a Split Fiction movie: 'There’s a lot of talks, but nothing happens'
News Fares also doesn't know the status of the movie version of another Hazelight game, It Takes Two.
Schedule 1 roadmap includes adding a 'classic fishing minigame,' plus parkour and heroin
News All the makings of a great weekend.
GTA RP: How to play on GTA 5 roleplaying servers
Let's Role Everything you need to know to try GTA RP for yourself.
You may act like Walter White and look like Rick & Morty, but this co-op drug-dealer sim blowing up on Steam isn't just a goofy meme game
news Schedule I may look cartoony, but so far it's a great sim with engaging systems and well-paced progression.
Former Bethesda dev went indie in part because of Fallout 76's noxious reception: 'If you put out a game that people don't like, the internet's gonna treat you like you're clubbing baby seals'
News Everybody's a critic.
I laughed, I fell, I ragequit: Baby Steps is a hilarious walking simulator I can't wait to watch speedrunners try to defeat
Footloose Climb a mountain, one awkward step at a time.
The hardest parts of open world walking simulator Baby Steps are 'harder than Getting Over It by quite some distance,' says Bennett Foddy
News You thought climbing a mountain in a cauldron was hard? Try doing it in bare feet.
