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

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
20 years after Kojima announced a Metal Gear Solid movie was happening, Sony announces a Metal Gear Solid movie is happening

By Christopher Livingston Published

News But will it actually happen? Snake? Snake! Snaaaaaaaaaaaake!

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A graveyard keeper leading an undead army while holding a skull with dollar sign eyes
Graveyard Keeper 2 is coming this year, and the original is free to keep on Steam if you grab it now

By Christopher Livingston Published

News The sequel to the 2018 medieval cematary sim launches this year.

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A farmer in a hazmat suit
'Stardew Valley meets Twin Peaks' in this 'gritty farming thriller,' and if you don't find all of those words appealing I don't know how to help you

By Christopher Livingston Published

News Grow food and try to solve the mystery of a grim, isolated town in Crop.

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A man fighting zombies in the rain
Project Zomboid identifies and bans over a dozen Steam Workshop mods containing 'heavily obfuscated code' that was 'creating malicious files'

By Christopher Livingston Published

News Players should take "appropriate security measures to ensure their system is safe. Simply uninstalling the mods is not sufficient."

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Kliff standing by a cliff holding a racoon
These 'hunger system' mods for Crimson Desert have gotten my hopes up for a full survival conversion

By Christopher Livingston Published

News The huge open world feels perfect for a survival experience.

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An evil Pac-Man villain covering his face
I watched the first TV show ever based on a game and it made me realize: we've really got it good these days

By Christopher Livingston Published

dot matrix Modern videogame adaptations can be rough, but at least they're trying.

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dot matrix
Luigi and Yoshi and Mario
I kept hearing that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie had a 'record-breaking weekend,' but then I looked at the actual records

By Christopher Livingston Published

News The film is an undeniable hit, but let's not shower it with gold medals just yet.

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Two bowlers, one sitting while the other bowls
I tried to become a pro bowler but I skipped one important step: learning how to bowl

By Christopher Livingston Published

Alley Oops My attempt to rise through the ranks of PBA Pro Bowling 2026 hit a small and completely unexpected snag.

Alley Oops
A modded shop in Stardew Valley with Pierre shopping for blueberry seeds
I opened my own store in Stardew Valley so now Pierre has to buy my seeds. MY SEEDS

By Christopher Livingston Published

News The Merchant mod for Stardew Valley mod lets you open a shop, decorate it, and sell your goods.

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Giraffes at a zoo
Turns out running a profitable zoo is super easy unless you keep blowing those profits on dozens of chickens

By Christopher Livingston Published

Bawk Wild Visitors in Zoo Life Simulator will pay top dollar to look at anything: a rabbit, a goose, and even a hot dog stand.

Bawk Wild
Two characters sitting on a bench talking
Developer of cozy tea shop adventure Wanderstop is shutting down: 'It's a particularly tough time for raising game funds'

By Christopher Livingston Published

News The studio, Ivy Road, wasn't able to secure funding for its next game, Engine Angel.

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Jesus doing Jesus-like things in the clouds while being worshipped by bearded dudes, image is pretty clearly AI-generated because hands and faces are messed up
There are two different Jesus sims launching within a week of each other

By Christopher Livingston Published

News Just in time for Easter.

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A big mobile mechanical base in the desert
Extraction shooter Sand delayed from March as Ukrainian developer cites 'a difficult few months' with 'severe power outages and air alert disruptions'

By Christopher Livingston Published

News No new release date has been announced, though there are plans for an upcoming server slam.

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Kyle Crane standing near dead zombies
Dying Light: The Beast's new mode means the zombies you kill won't respawn… but neither will all the loot you need to survive

By Christopher Livingston Published

News Restored Land is a free update with a twist on Kyle Crane's zombie horror adventure.

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A fantasy open world
Light No Fire: Everything we know about Hello Games' planet-sized survival game

By Christopher Livingston Last updated

Warm-Up Sean Murray's follow-up to an infinite sci-fi universe is a single planet—but it's a big one.

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Warm-Up
A roman city
If you think the citizens in city builders are grumpy and needy, try pleasing a bunch of jealous Roman gods

By Christopher Livingston Published

Vis Major In city builder Nova Roma, the gods can make life easier for you—just don't turn your back on them.

Vis Major
A big mobile mechanical base in the desert
'A firm announcement is dependent on this final stretch of work': Fans are spinning out over extraction shooter Sand's lack of a specific March release date

By Christopher Livingston Published

News We're running out of March.

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A park ranger with people looking at a trail sign behind him
I've finally found my true calling, and it's kicking people out of national parks for the slightest infractions of the rules

By Christopher Livingston Published

Take a hike Ranger's Path: National Park Simulator lets me protect nature by sending hikers packing.

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Take a hike
A customer in a video rental shop
This game about running a '90s video rental store is the first job sim to really grab me since Schedule 1

By Christopher Livingston Published

News Be kind and rewind.

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Alan Ritchson looking like Solid Snake from Metal Gear
Is Reacher's Alan Ritchson a Kojima nerd? 'The Dream' he says next to a picture of him as Solid Snake, adding: 'La Li Lu Le Lo'

By Christopher Livingston Published

News The extremely large action man might be an extremely large Kojima fan.

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A modern city
Cities: Skylines 2 boss says they 'completely overestimated' the Unity engine's capabilities

By Christopher Livingston Published

News "Our mistake was to bank on something that was not yet proven," says Colossal Order CEO Mariina Hallikainen.

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A pirate ship on an ocean in a work-in-progress screenshot from Ark: Survival Ascended
'Insanely punishing' survival game Atlas is being distilled 'into a more accessible form' for Ark: Survival Ascended's new DLC

By Christopher Livingston Published

News The Tides of Fortune update will let players craft a customizable ship and sail it across a simulated ocean.

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Lamball from Palworld as it stands in a grassy area and looks surprised
Palworld's Bucky got off a plane to find 'about 8,000 Discord messages from Palworld fans' who really wanted him to know about Pickmon: 'God bless their little hearts'

By Andrea Shearon Published

News There is not a soul in Palpagos who forgot to message Bucky.

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Dead By Daylight devs reckon the game has 'at least' another 10 years in it

By Rich Stanton Published

News "We just made a game ready to walk away. But it worked, and people wanted more, and so we gave them more."

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Vin Diesel in Ark 2 teaser
Vin Diesel's character in Ark 2 was originally written as a nerd: 'Yeah, that ain't gonna work'

By Christopher Livingston Published

News A bit of retconning took place when the Fast & Furious star joined Ark 2.

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