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
Sons of the Forest 1.0 launches with creative mode, a new ending, and an answer to one of the game's biggest mysteries
By Christopher Livingston published
News That mysterious artifact can now be fully assembled and used… but for what?
Solo survival players, rejoice: Nightingale is 'prioritizing and developing an offline mode'
By Christopher Livingston published
News "...we misjudged what some of you were looking for in your experience," says developer Inflexion Games.
10 tips for surviving Pacific Drive's deadly exclusion zone
By Christopher Livingston published
Owner's Manual Before you start your drive, here's a guide on how to survive.
Where to find ThermoSap Crystals in Pacific Drive
By Christopher Livingston published
Tanks a lot If you want to turn your car into a tank you'll need ThermoSap Crystals to craft armored doors and puncture-proof tires.
How to get lead platelets in Pacific Drive
By Christopher Livingston published
lead ahead Lead is a key resource to crafting radiation protection and bigger batteries, and its location can be hard to find.
How to open Dumpster Pearls in Pacific Drive
By Christopher Livingston published
trash trove These big weird nuggets are full of goodies if you can crack them open.
How to get Unstable Energy and Corrupt Energy in Pacific Drive
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Power Up Your fabrication station needs different energy types to unlock new crafting recipes. Here's how to find them.
This chill city builder lets you create buildings, farms, and fields simply by drawing shapes
By Christopher Livingston published
news In Lands of Koastalia you're the mayor of a peaceful and growing island.
Enshrouded hits 2 million players, and those players have over 2,600 new feature requests
By Christopher Livingston published
News You can vote on (or add to) a long, long list of player-suggested changes for the co-op survival RPG.
Pacific Drive review: This survival game's quirky station wagon just became my favorite videogame vehicle
By Christopher Livingston published
Fast & Curious Repair, improve, and pilot a quirky station wagon in survival game Pacific Drive.
In case you don't have enough survival games this month, Sons of the Forest leaves early access next week (and it's getting raccoons)
By Christopher Livingston published
News In the midst of a survival game boom, last year's survival horror hit is on the brink of a 1.0 launch.
Our simulated Super Bowl 2024 predicts only a single touchdown because it's really hard to score a touchdown in the pinball game we used for the simulation
By Christopher Livingston published
Paddle Ball There will also be a record broken for most players on the field at once: 80.
The Half-Life vibes are intense in the free Steam demo for co-op survival game Abiotic Factor
By Christopher Livingston published
lambda core And you're even better than Gordon Freeman because you'll actually use your brain for science.
Enshrouded's first big patch kills bunny-hopping and bed-flying exploits, nerfs superpowered Wolverine-style healing
By Christopher Livingston published
news These fixes all make perfect sense, but it's still sad to see fun exploits die.
This Enshrouded spell is so ridiculously OP I've been one-shotting bosses with it—and I'm not even a wizard
By Christopher Livingston published
News A spell called "Acid Bite" melts through boss health bars like, well, acid.
How 'driving survival game' Pacific Drive is being built for people who don't like survival games
By Christopher Livingston published
road-like Ironwood Studios game director Seth Rosen talks to us about smoothing out the bumps in the road.
Ark: Survival Evolved cheats and console commands
By Christopher Livingston last updated
cheat-rex Cheat codes for Ark on PC: use god mode, fly, teleport, unlock all engrams, tame dinos, and more.
If you're looking for a new base in Enshrouded, this three-story tavern with a 25 comfort buff is the perfect fixer-upper
By Christopher Livingston published
news It's got a full bathroom, its own well, and enough room to glide inside. You just need to patch a few holes. (And kill some spiders.)
Hope you're hungry for Godzilla sushi, because the legendary kaiju is coming to Dave the Diver
By Christopher Livingston published
news The restaurant management sim is taking reservations for a big plus-one this May.
Well, it sure is ambitious: this game set in ancient China wants to be a city builder, farming and life sim, open world RPG, management tycoon, and 4X strategy all rolled into one
By Christopher Livingston published
news The Bustling World looks lovely, but that's an awful lot to deliver.
This bizarre Enshrouded glitch lets you fly across the entire map with a single jump
By Christopher Livingston published
News Want to cross the map? Just jump on your bed.
Enshrouded doesn't have PvP, but players are still getting robbed and griefed by strangers
By Christopher Livingston published
news You can't kill other players in the new early access survival game, but it's pretty easy to kill the co-op vibe.
Where to find metal scraps in Enshrouded
By Christopher Livingston published
scrap dealer This resource lets you craft stronger tools, armor, and metal sheets.
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