
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

'Do they really need marketing for Elder Scrolls 6?' Skyrim lead designer says Bethesda probably won't make a TV show for The Elder Scrolls because it's already making 'literally billions of dollars'
By Christopher Livingston published
News "What you're going to make by licensing the IP to this TV show is just peanuts."

Bethesda keeps the Fallout remaster hopium flowing by showing Aaron Moten inside Fallout 3 and New Vegas
By Christopher Livingston published
News Remasters when?

I watched Markiplier play Iron Lung for 45 minutes before watching Markiplier star in the Iron Lung movie for 2+ hours. Which was better?
By Christopher Livingston published
deep dive I sealed myself in and plunged into Markiplier's world.

Fallout 76 is free to play until Feb 5, but if you want that sick NCR power armor from the Fallout show, it's gonna cost you
By Christopher Livingston published
News The Fallout 76 Mojave Bundle will run you $30… unless you're patient.

The Fallout series finally let us meet a character who's been part of the lore for more than 25 years
By Christopher Livingston published
News And the actor playing them is an original Fallout voice artist.

Fallout Season 2 Episode 7 recap: 'Don't think of them as human beings, think of them as Americans'
By Christopher Livingston published
Recap The Ghoul relives his own history in "The Handoff."

Trains are taking over the survival genre: there are a half-dozen survival base-builders on rails coming in 2026
By Christopher Livingston published
Railfans It's a great year to live out your Snowpiercer fantasies.

Valheim cheats: All codes and console commands to wield godly power
By Christopher Livingston last updated
Godlike Valheim cheats to enable god mode, add skill points, spawn items, and more.

Valve needed to 'verify' footage of the 'alien orgy' in Earth Must Die before it was allowed to launch on Steam
By Christopher Livingston published
News I'm sure it was strictly for evaluation purposes.

Check your Pip-Boy because the last two episodes of Fallout Season 2 are coming earlier than expected
By Christopher Livingston published
News The wait isn't quite as long as we thought.

One of Steam's most wishlisted games announces it's launching next week with a song so unhinged you've got to hear it for yourself
By Christopher Livingston published
News "Claw your way to the top, let their corpses be your crop!"

After Hytale subreddit goes 'full panic mode,' dev assures players the new patch 'is NOT the magic system' that's coming in the full game
By Christopher Livingston published
News Hypixel CEO Simon Collins-Laflamme says the necromancy grimoire is "just a random drop fun item, it will evolve over time."

Create beautiful pots and use them to smash your friends to pieces in Double Fine's new 'online multiplayer pottery party brawler'
By Christopher Livingston published
News The strategy begins with a lump of clay.

Can you guess the game by only seeing the letter A from its logo? Take our quiz and see if you get an A+!
By Christopher Livingston published
A for Effort This quiz is brought to you by the letter A.

Epic responds to director Gore Verbinski's claims that Unreal Engine is making movie CGI worse: 'aesthetic and craft comes from artists, not software'
By Christopher Livingston published
News "It’s inaccurate for anyone in the industry to claim that one tool is to blame," said Patrick Tubach, VFX supervisor at Epic Games.

Director Gore Verbinski says Unreal Engine is 'the greatest slip backwards' for movie CGI
By Christopher Livingston published
News Do visual effects look worse than they used to? The director of Pirates of the Caribbean says Unreal is the culprit.

Dune: Awakening finally gets long-awaited character transfers
By Christopher Livingston published
News Ready to pack your bags? And base? And bike?

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

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check review - Not enough to chew on in this medical management sim
By Christopher Livingston published
28 Cheeks Later Decide who is accommodated and who is liquidated in this zombie apocalypse medical management sim.

Here's one big benefit to Hytale not being on Steam: its refund policy is way better than Valve's
By Christopher Livingston published
News You can play for longer before deciding whether or not you want a refund.

Quarantine Zone has been patched so now you can actually detect people smuggling hand grenades in their butts
By Christopher Livingston published
What's in your (prison) wallet?

Hytale vs Minecraft: 5 key differences you should know about
By Christopher Livingston published
Hy there! Here's what you're getting, and what you're not, if you try Hypixel Studios' new sandbox adventure game.

Fallout Season 2 Episode 5 recap: 'Another player at the table'
By Christopher Livingston published
Recap "Who ends the world?"
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