Christopher Livingston

Christopher Livingston

Senior Editor

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

Left: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Right: Yamato Kochi
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.

No Way Out
A woman talking to James Bond
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.

👀7️
A large space station with a laser
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!

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News
Adventurers fighting a monster with magic and a pistol
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.

Hard Times
A pirate flees along a jetty with a treasure chest
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.

Booty
A guy smoking a cigarette
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?

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No Butts
Celeste, a beautiful unicorn in Deadlock, stands poised and ready to fight.
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.

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News
A potato with eyes and a mouth and a headset
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.

News
An alien fish being threatened by a hammer
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.

News
A Subnautica 2 diver smiling at a collected artifact.
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.

Power
Divers
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.

Dive In
An underwater base
The best Subnautica 2 base locations

By Christopher Livingston Published

Base Ace Where to build your undersea HQ.

Base Ace
Aaron Paul pointing at a Fallout sign at a Fallout New Vegas launch event in 2010
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.

News
A snail moving toward a computer in flames
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.

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News
JESSICA MCNAMEE as Sonya Blade, TADANOBU ASANO as Lord Raiden, and LEWIS TAN as Cole Young in New Line Cinema’s “Mortal Kombat II,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
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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News
Subnautica 2 - Surprised character looking out of his vessel at an enemy sea creature
'The team has weathered a lot': Subnautica 2 design lead says the community kept the dev team going 'when it was at its hardest'

By Christopher Livingston Published

News "Despite any rough patches, our goal has always remained the same," said Anthony Gallegos.

News
Plants vs. Zombies review: 'I stop playing Plants vs. Zombies when someone makes me'

By Tom Francis Published

Grower When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will stroll the lawn.

Grower
Two dog-like robots with the heads of Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos
Robot Watch: The weirdest and wildest things bots did this month including self destructing, playing ping pong, and pooping NFTs

By Christopher Livingston Published

roboflop Robots may someday dominate our world. Let's keep an eye on them.

roboflop
A football player holding his head
This mod brings concussions back into Madden 26, including symptoms like blurred vision, dizziness, and slower reaction times

By Christopher Livingston Published

News The mod was created by the Derek Sheely Foundation to bring more awareness to the dangers and warning signs of traumatic head injuries.

News
Windrose - The leader of the Smugglers, Marita Suarez. She has long brown curly hair and is wearing a large pirate hat and green doublet.
Windrose devs don't have any progress wipes planned for early access, but 'of course s**t happens'

By Christopher Livingston Published

News Kraken Express will "do our best" to let players keep their progress "intact all the way to 1.0 release."

News
Two pirates with guns looking badass
'Please have faith in us once again' says Windrose dev, revealing its first big content update won't arrive for 'at least 6 months'

By Christopher Livingston Published

News "All the new content and features we want to deliver takes time," says developer Kraken Express.

News
A scared man sits on an office chair mid-air while a trolley and a bath with wheels falls behind him
'Eventually the slop will just fall to the bottom': Garry's Mod sequel launches to 'mixed' reviews, but Garry himself isn't worried about AI games on the main page

By Rich Stanton Published

News "Low quality, obvious AI-created slop is going to be a growing problem in every creative outlet."

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News
A guy buying brass knuckles
People love buying weapons so much in this gun store sim that I'm making bank even though I only sell brass knuckles

By Christopher Livingston Published

Target No guns? No problem. Any weapon is a best seller.

Target
A town in Crimson Desert seen from high aboe
PSA: Crimson Desert's new camera settings can make the game look like Baldur's Gate 3

By Christopher Livingston Published

News I wouldn't recommend fighting in isometric view, however.

News
Some silly helicopters and cars chasing each other
'We don't have to fire 1000 people to keep it working': Facepunch Studios says paying s&box game developers is sustainable, with '$500,000 paid out to date'

By Christopher Livingston Published

News Developers can also export their games standalone to Steam: "No hidden percentages, no rug pulls, your work is yours."

News
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