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

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.

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."

The best indie games on PC
By Jody Macgregor last updated
Small but mighty These are the best indie games you can play on PC.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The best Subnautica 2 base locations
By Christopher Livingston published
Base Ace Where to build your undersea HQ.

16 years after attending a Fallout: New Vegas launch event, Aaron Paul gets cast in Fallout Season 3
By Christopher Livingston published
News He played the long game.

True permadeath: You can never play this game again if you let its immortal snail assassin touch your mouse pointer
By Christopher Livingston published
News The meme where a killer snail slowly but relentlessly pursues you is coming to your desktop.

Mortal Kombat 2 movie reviews are in, and it's being called everything from 'enjoyably violent' to 'depressingly rizzless'
By Christopher Livingston published
News The sequel to 2021's Mortal Kombat movie tests its might against film critics.
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