
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

The best Skyrim mods: Everything from beautiful vegetables to huge expansions
By Christopher Livingston last updated
100+ Mods! A gargantuan collection of our favorite mods for Bethesda's fantasy RPG, updated.

The best Skyrim Special Edition mods
By Jody Macgregor last updated
Updated! The best Skyrim Special Edition mods are as numerous as the best mods for vanilla Skyrim.

'The Day Before 2?': Everyone is skeptical about this survival game promising a map five times the size of DayZ and 5,000 players per server
By Christopher Livingston published
News Won't get fooled again.

Gamescom 2025 preview: The 6 games we're most excited to see
By Tyler Wilde published
👀 The major games you can expect to see at Europe's biggest gaming event, which is just around the corner.

Viva Las Vegas! We're getting a Fallout Season 2 teaser at Gamescom
By Christopher Livingston published
News Let's hope we see a Deathclaw.

Alien: Earth is the best thing to happen to the Alien universe since Isolation
By Christopher Livingston published
creature feature The FX series is off to a heck of a good start, mostly because it's not trying to replicate the past.

PlayerUnknown's new survival game makes building a simple campfire feel like a real accomplishment, and that's something a lot of survival games are lacking
By Christopher Livingston published
hot stuff You can playtest a beta of Prologue: Go Wayback! on Steam as of today.

Ubisoft announces a live-action Far Cry TV series then immediately pretends it didn't announce a live-action Far Cry TV series
By Christopher Livingston published
News The show is reportedly in the works at FX and will star Rob McElhenney of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia—but Ubisoft quickly took down the announcement.

Dune: Awakening: All Trial of Aql locations
By Sean Martin, Christopher Livingston last updated
Spicy Snort some spice to unlock new gear and abilities.

The most honest survival game I've ever played is this unemployment simulator
By Christopher Livingston published
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
By Christopher Livingston published
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
By Christopher Livingston published
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?
By Christopher Livingston published
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!
By Christopher Livingston published
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
By Christopher Livingston published
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
By Christopher Livingston published
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
By Christopher Livingston published
News Let Them Trade is a chill builder that takes place on a virtual tabletop.

The best Steam Deck games
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Steam On The games everyone should have installed on Valve's gaming handheld.

Among Us 3D is adding a new limited-time feature I haven't thought about in 20 years: VIP mode
By Christopher Livingston published
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
By Christopher Livingston published
Make Hay (With a little help from A Minecraft Movie.)

How well do you know Balatro's jokers? Try to ace our latest quiz!
By Christopher Livingston published
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
By Christopher Livingston published
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
By Christopher Livingston published
News You could have been scanning boxes instead of scanning people for signs of the zombie plague.
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