
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

Attention parents of Roblox kids: I regret to inform you they are making a Grow a Garden movie
By Christopher Livingston published
News Have some popcorn while you watch corn grow.

Even in early access, Tavern Keeper already feels like the fantasy pub sim of my dreams
By Christopher Livingston published
Pub Crawl It's been in development for over a decade, and all that hard work really shows.

'I briefly burst into tears': After 11 years of work, the dev of this fantasy sim is 'elated and grateful' to reach Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam only 3 days after launch
By Christopher Livingston published
News Pub management RPG Tavern Keeper entered early access this week and is already beloved by players.

Do the titles of these games contain a colon, a dash, both, or neither? Test your punctuational prowess in our latest quiz!
By Christopher Livingston published
:-) How well do you know your game title punctuation marks? Let's find out.

Balatro's new merch is just as unhinged as we've come to expect
By Christopher Livingston published
News It's also decently cheap and the profits go to a great cause.

Sure, there might as well be a 'World Solitaire Championship' and it might as well be hosted by Stephen A. Smith
By Christopher Livingston published
News And it might as well fly 400 players to Miami to sit at poker tables playing solitaire on iPads.

If you're a fan of Blue Prince and the Golden Idol games, this spooky detective mystery has arrived just in time for Halloween
By Christopher Livingston published
News In The Seance of Blake Manor, solve a missing persons case in a sprawling hotel filled with potential suspects.

The creator of your dad's favorite TV show is writing the Call of Duty movie
By Christopher Livingston published
News Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan will write the script for Activision and Paramount, and Friday Night Lights' Peter Berg will direct.

Stand up and yell 'PC Gamer!' if you recognize the videogame patent diagrams in our latest quiz!
By Christopher Livingston published
🍔 Our latest quiz is patently absurd.

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

We'll never get Mindhunter Season 3, but Netflix is working on multiple 'scripted and unscripted' projects based on the Catan board game, so there's that
By Christopher Livingston published
News Buckle up for a thrill ride as people take turns trading wool for wood?

Back by popular demand: Can you guess the game based only on a blurb from a Steam review? Take Part 2 of our critical quiz!
By Christopher Livingston published
Mixed Up Give our quiz a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down.

Farthest Frontier review: Crate Entertainment's survival city builder is both challenging and chill
By Christopher Livingston published
Capital Crate Entertainment's survival city builder is packed with intricate production and farming systems.

Fine, guess I'll play another 200 hours of Plants Vs Zombies since the remaster is perfect for Steam Deck
By Christopher Livingston last updated
Touch Grass With a bunch of new modes and bonus levels, Plants Vs Zombies: Replanted is more than just a visual facelift.

Jackbox Party Pack 11 is the first to not include sequels to earlier Jackbox games, but there's still plenty of familiar DNA in the all-new offerings
By Christopher Livingston published
News "We can never control how people feel or what their expectations are, but our hope is to blow those expectations out of the water," said game director Brooke Breit.

The top 100 PC games
By Phil Savage published
Class of 2025 Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.

2027 is shaping up to be the biggest year for videogame movies yet, with the live-action Zelda movie, A Minecraft Movie sequel, Death Stranding, and more heavy-hitters planned
By Christopher Livingston published
Showtime Throw in the Elden Ring movie or BioShock and it's a lock.

Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul made superhero adventure Dispatch his first ever videogame acting role because the script was 'so honest and poetic and just raw'
By Christopher Livingston published
News Paul plays Mecha Man, a hero who has lost his armored suit and now works in an office with former villains.

Netflix's Splinter Cell: Deathwatch has already been picked up for a second season
By Christopher Livingston published
News The animated series dropped on Tuesday and Season 2 was confirmed on Wednesday.

Yep, I get why this co-op RPG sandbox that's part Minecraft, part Skyrim, and also has airships, is one of the most played demos on Steam Next Fest
By Christopher Livingston published
News Craft, fight, loot, build, and explore in the demo for sandbox RPG Everwind.

It's our biggest quiz yet: how many Steam game genres and sub-genres can you name?
By Christopher Livingston published
tag! There are well over a hundred, so I'll give you plenty of time to guess.

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch director wishes he had 'the security clearance' to get us info about Ubisoft's Splinter Cell remake
By Christopher Livingston published
News Stealth action games like Splinter Cell and Hitman "are very much my jam" says director Guillaume Dousse.

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch review: Netflix's animated series brings Sam Fisher out of retirement
By Christopher Livingston published
Winter Cell Expect more action than stealth from Sam Fisher in Netflix's animated series.
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