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 Half-Life vibes are intense in the free Steam demo for co-op survival game Abiotic Factor
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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scrap dealer This resource lets you craft stronger tools, armor, and metal sheets.
Enshrouded amber guide: three great spots to quickly find this useful resource
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all mine Amber is a resource you can use to create a more powerful fireball spell, craft mage gear, upgrade your flame altar and more.
Don't sleep on one of Enshrouded's coolest features… which is literally sleep
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cot stuff Bedtime is the best time.
This co-op survival game looks like a mad scientist's mashup of Lethal Company and Half-Life—and there's a demo out now
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news Craft sci-fi weapons and gizmos while battling alien invaders deep in an underground blacksite.
The demo for poker-based roguelike Balatro returns today with nearly 40 new jokers—plus a full release date in February
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news We got a peek at what's new thanks to developer LocalThunk turning over some of his cards for us.
Co-op survival RPG Enshrouded: forgiving survival systems in a surprisingly massive open world
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shroud gaming Just in case you forgot, there's actually *two* big early access survival games out this month.
The 5 most ambitious Fallout mods in development right now
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Big Promises You don’t have to wait until Fallout 5 to journey back into The Wasteland.
The developer of strategy city builder Manor Lords expected 14,000 Steam wishlists... and wound up with 2 million
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News Guess I'm not the only one eager to play it.
There's a lot more beating people to death with a baseball bat in this computer repair shop sim than I expected
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grimulation Computer Repair Shop takes a look at the seedier side of fixing PCs.
The 5 colony sims coming in 2024 I'm most looking forward to
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settle down This year you can manage settlements in the post-apocalypse, medieval times, and even way back in the stone age.
2024 is already looking like a fantastic year for survival games
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stay alive Try to survive on alien planets, in fantasy realms, irradiated zones, the Victorian era, and even in a customized station wagon.
Since they can't play Light No Fire yet, Hello Games fans are keeping busy by drawing dragons
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news A single trailer for Sean Murray's upcoming fantasy survival game was enough to inspire a horde of fanart.
My new favorite survival game companion is Pacific Drive's clunky sci-fi station wagon
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top jalopy It's more than just my mobile base, it's my best friend—even though it's occasionally haunted.