Latest articles by Christopher Livingston
The most honest survival game I've ever played is this unemployment simulator
News Manage anxiety, fatigue, and dopamine levels, and try to keep yourself alive in Unemployment Simulator 2018.
Deliberately giving AI 'a dose of evil' may make it less evil overall, reads headline on ragged newspaper in the rubble of the robot apocalypse
News A new study claims steering AI into "evil" behavior somehow makes it less prone to evil in the long run.
This new 4-player co-op 'doomsday shooter' is free to own forever during its first 24 hours on Steam
News In Guntouchables, battle mobs of mutants to secure the most important supplies of the post-apocalypse: beer and toilet paper.
Will someone please sit with me when I play this super creepy game about examining dozens of old photos for evidence of g-g-ghosts?
News I'm too scared to play it alone.
Think you can guess the PC game just from its crates? Try to smash our latest quiz!
checkbox I bet you'll do a crate job.
I thought it was a cute and casual little mining sim right up until it devoured my entire morning
News In Gemporium: A Cute Mining Sim, you've gotta dig up gems until you've got a mole-ian dollars. That's a pun on million. Because you're a mole.
The 'Compiling Shaders' screen is the worst screen in gaming: here's how to make it suck less
Gripes Week I'm tired of staring at screens telling me that only 1,239 of 22,594 shaders have been compiled. What happened to reticulating splines?
Setting up trade routes is gaming catnip to me, so I'm pouncing on this beautiful city builder on Steam that has some strong Catan vibes
News Let Them Trade is a chill builder that takes place on a virtual tabletop.
Among Us 3D is adding a new limited-time feature I haven't thought about in 20 years: VIP mode
News I haven't played VIP since way, way back in Team Fortress Classic, and I just realized I miss it.
5 stealthy lessons the live-action Assassin's Creed Netflix series could learn from the clumsy live-action Assassin's Creed movie
Make Hay (With a little help from A Minecraft Movie.)
How well do you know Balatro's jokers? Try to ace our latest quiz!
Joker Poker Ante up! Let's see if you're a true card sharp or just a flop.
Dune: Awakening is testing out a fix for ornithopter griefing and making an unforgivable change to flour sand farming
News The new patch on the public test client will run for two weeks before it hits the main game.
Quarantine Zone was almost a zombie-free sim about managing a warehouse
News You could have been scanning boxes instead of scanning people for signs of the zombie plague.
Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game review: Great cozy cooking, but not enough else to be hobbit-forming
Short Order Make friends with food.
Quarantine Zone creator reveals 3 reasons the zombie sim went viral on TikTok
News Get it? Viral?
Dune: Awakening 'temporarily' disables Steam Family Sharing, potentially through the end of 2025: 'We have unfortunately seen this feature abused frequently'
News "We are actively working on changes that will allow us to re-enable the system as soon as possible."
'People hate it. It's very annoying. It's like a boss in Dark Souls': Quarantine Zone's biggest source of negative feedback is that dang supply cart
News "Half of negative demo reviews contain the word 'cart,'" says Brigada Games CEO Stas Starykh.
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check has been wishlisted on Steam 1 million times, and will be published in November by Devolver Digital
News The "apocalyptic admin simulator" is already a hit, just based on a demo.
At long last and 'with gracious permission from Valve,' Garry's Mod now contains 'most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content' even if you don't own those games
News Players should no longer see pink checkerboards or giant ERROR models when they "play on community maps that expect you to have this content."
Square Enix's new murder party game is like Among Us in a mansion, with a hefty helping of team deathmatch
Killer Party Will you kill, or be killed?
Guy with 35,000 hours in Ark: Survival Evolved gives it a negative Steam review: 'How do I get a refund!!'
News "You had something great. Hope you don't choke on your GREED!!!"
Skyrim console commands: cheats for an unbeatable Dragonborn
Guide God mode, noclip, and and maxed out skills are just a few Skyrim console commands away.
Farming Simulator 25 finally figures out what the rest of us already knew: you gotta have some fishing in your farming game
News And this being Farming Sim, you'll grow the fish yourself when the Highlands Fishing expansion comes out this fall.
