Christopher Livingston

Christopher Livingston

Senior Editor

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

Survivors trying to gas up and start a car
State of Decay 3 just gave us a release year, and at least that's something?

By Christopher Livingston Published

News The long awaited survival game takes another shambling step closer.

News
Several airships approaching floating islands
Three days before launch, one of the most wishlisted games on Steam warns players not to expect 'a huge survival game' with 'hundreds of hours of main progression'

By Christopher Livingston Published

News Instead expect a "calm, cozy, focused survival craft sandbox made by a tiny team" says developer Cyberwave.

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People on a water park river being chased by zombies
Left 4 Dead meets friendslop as you and your pals try to escape 'the galaxy's most-unregulated waterpark'

By Christopher Livingston Published

News Don't pee in the pool.

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A zombie attacking someone
Believe or not, this co-op and PvP zombie shooter is 'inspired by true events'

By Christopher Livingston Published

News In Last Harbor you’re stranded on a boat during a zombie outbreak, but the real threat are your fellow players.

News
Sebulba
Sebulba and a whole bunch of other Glup Shittos appear in the first story trailer for Star Wars: Galactic Racer

By Christopher Livingston Published

News Oh, there's a story? I was hoping it would just be racing.

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Xenomorph mouth about to bite you
It took 12 years but we finally got a teaser for Alien: Isolation 2

By Christopher Livingston Published

News The xenomorph is on the hunt again.

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Three overhauled player models in Rust looking forward
Everyone in Rust is getting a new face

By Christopher Livingston Published

News Player models are getting overhauled for the first time in a decade.

News
Subnautica 2 - Surprised character looking out of his vessel at an enemy sea creature
Subnautica 2 promises to add 'one of the most requested' features, but sorry, it's not a knife you can stab fish with

By Christopher Livingston Published

News You can't get stabby, but you can "get stompy."

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Kane Parsons on set of Backrooms, with a reversed stop sign in the background, a delicious foil for the headline which says he is not stopping making Backrooms stuff
Backrooms movie is just a start toward the 'true root of the narrative,' says director: 'I am definitely not done'

By Christopher Livingston Published

News Kane Parsons says Backrooms "has always been planned to be more of a series that goes outside the confines of this film."

News
A Dune character in hood and mask
Funcom is adding a singleplayer mode to Dune: Awakening, and wow, the new features are definitely gonna bring me back to the game

By Christopher Livingston Published

News In September you'll be able to play the survival MMO completely solo, with some big bonuses.

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Steam reviewer says 'I am done with this game' after 10,000 hours of Destiny 2, then plays another 160 hours just to be sure

By Ted Litchfield Published

news Honestly, same.

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A pair of sheriffs in Red Dead Redemption 2
I am the law, man, thanks to this mod for Red Dead Redemption 2

By Christopher Livingston Published

Mod Column My first days as a sheriff in the First Response mod don't go as smoothly as hoped.

Mod Column
Drones forming the head of Skeletor over Los Angeles
Robot watch: The weirdest things the clankers did this month including moonwalking themselves to death, losing a fight to a step, and drowning by the dozens in Sydney Harbour

By Christopher Livingston Published

🤖 Android are you okay? Android are you okay? Are you okay, Android?

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Left: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Right: Yamato Kochi
Backrooms and Exit 8 make the perfect double feature for videogame-adjacent horror movies

By Christopher Livingston Published

No Way Out Quiet. Tense. Creepy. And not overstuffed with lore or exposition.

No Way Out
A woman talking to James Bond
Playing 007 First Light? Send us gameplay videos galore and you could win a $500 Amazon gift card

By Christopher Livingston Published

👀7️ Your best clip could win big.

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A large space station with a laser
No Man's Sky now has its own Death Star with a laser so big it can 'destroy space station sized objects'

By Christopher Livingston Published

News Look at the size of that thing!

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Adventurers fighting a monster with magic and a pistol
The sequel to one of my favorite survival games doesn't just respawn you back at home when you die: that'd be way too easy

By Christopher Livingston Published

Hard Times Outward 2 doesn't pull any punches, and that's just what I was hoping for.

Hard Times
A pirate flees along a jetty with a treasure chest
Great moments in PC gaming: Stealing and selling someone else's treasure in Sea of Thieves

By Christopher Livingston Published

Booty It's what the pirate life is all about.

Booty
A guy smoking a cigarette
As a former smoker, I'm asking gamedevs to please make an 'arachnophobia mode' but for cigarettes because I am barely hanging on here

By Christopher Livingston Published

No Butts Add a toggle that replaces them with lollipops, or kazoos, or pretzel sticks, or something?

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No Butts
Celeste, a beautiful unicorn in Deadlock, stands poised and ready to fight.
Now that Subnautica 2 is out, the most wishlisted game on Steam is… a game that's been out for almost 2 years?

By Christopher Livingston Published

News It's Schrödinger's game: it is both unreleased and yet one of the most popular games on Steam.

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A potato with eyes and a mouth and a headset
Survival RPG Outward 2 will run just fine on 'potato' settings, and as proof, here's testimony from an actual potato

By Christopher Livingston Published

News The survival RPG sequel is coming to early access in July.

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An alien fish being threatened by a hammer
This Subnautica 2 mod lets you kill all the fish you want

By Christopher Livingston Published

News You've nibbled me for the last time, Nibbler Mango.

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A Subnautica 2 diver smiling at a collected artifact.
Subnautica 2 console commands: turn on god mode, unlock all blueprints, craft without resources, and change your FOV

By Christopher Livingston Published

Power Modders have already unlocked Subnautica 2's debug console to allow you to use cheats and spawn resources using item ID codes.

Power
Divers
How Subnautica 2 multiplayer works

By Christopher Livingston Published

Dive In Co-op features are a bit lacking, but hopefully that will change in early access.

Dive In
An underwater base
The best Subnautica 2 base locations

By Christopher Livingston Published

Base Ace Where to build your undersea HQ.

Base Ace
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