Latest articles by Christopher Livingston
This looks fungi: a first-person roguelike 'double deckbuilder' where you use a separate deck for exploring, smash locked doors open with your head, and feast on the corpses of mushroom monsters
News A demo for Shroom and Gloom is available on Steam now.
A Minecraft Movie is out on digital so now your kid can throw popcorn around the living room instead of the theater when the chicken jockey shows up
News You can now rent the blockbuster (haha, blocks, get it) on Prime Video or Apple TV.
'Too many games let their players succeed' says developer of notoriously tough survival RPG Kenshi, and 'that's mind-numbingly boring to me'
News "A writer's job is to torment their protagonist," says Chris Hunt of Lo-Fi Games. "So I just adapted that."
Dune: Awakening's stabby stunlock PvP exploit is being fixed, says Funcom: 'We've got this covered'
News Being endlessly staggered by a human opponent isn't a heck of a lot of fun.
'We heard your feedback': Funcom just reversed course and opened up the Dune: Awakening beta weekend to anyone who preorders the survival MMO
News Seems like that should have been the plan from the beginning?
Bodega cats, trash pandas, and a great white shark: the real stars of the GTA 6 reveal are all the animals hiding in plain sight
Iguana Play Forget the cars, cash, and criminals: I want to go on a wilderness walk.
The Dune: Awakening team is confident servers won't implode at launch: 'This is not our first rodeo'
News "Rest assured, there will be thousands of servers grouped together in hundreds of Worlds available at launch," Funcom said.
Calling all cozy mystery fans: the follow-up to 2022's best puzzle game gives you even more ways to play detective
New Clue Strange Antiquities, the sequel to botany shop puzzler Strange Horticulture, gives you new ways to solve all its perplexing little mysteries.
The GTA 6 trailer shows Jason and Lucia working out: is Rockstar bringing back some of San Andreas' RPG-lite features?
Slim Gym Jason lifts weights, Lucia works a heavy bag… are these just cutscenes or will exercise improve our stats?
Squid Game Season 3 teaser respawns Player 456 in the lobby for one more round
News Netflix's most popular show gives us a glimpse of its endgame coming this June.
Todd Howard is hiding in Oblivion Remastered, and you can find him and make him fall in love with you
News "Oh no! What do we do? I'm so scared!" 🥺👉👈
Wagon is a 1-bit card-based spiritual successor to survival classic The Oregon Trail, and wastes no time getting right into the cannibalism
News Dysentery is the least of your worries.
Oblivion Remastered looks so good that I can't believe I'm saying this: I kinda hope Bethesda remasters Skyrim (again) too
Alteration I wouldn't have said this a week ago, but in the wake of Oblivion's shiny new facelift, Skyrim suddenly feels pretty drab.
Water is so precious in the Dune: Awakening beta I wound up treating innocent scavengers like my personal juice boxes
wet work Feeling a bit thirsty? Lock and load.
Getting around in Dune: Awakening is a blast thanks to grappling hooks, suspensors, and the ability to climb literally anything
Sky's the limit Who even needs an ornithopter?
After 25 hours of the Dune: Awakening beta, I'm sold on it as a survival game but still a bit iffy on the MMO parts
Spicy Crafting and resource management is compelling, but the wider world has yet to grab me.
Don't worry, Oblivion Remastered's NPCs are still charmingly ugly, they're just ugly in next-gen ways
News The new facelifts didn't make them hot or bland, as we feared: now Cyrodiil's citizens have a whole new type of disquieting charm.
Oblivion Remastered live coverage: Launch info, reactions, and latest news
News It's time for a Cyrodiil homecoming.
How to join the Dark Brotherhood in Oblivion
Contracts Here are the steps you need to take to join the mysterious assassin's guild.
How excited are we to replay a shinier version of Oblivion 19 years later?
TESIV Oblivion is a safe pick for the remaster treatment, sandwiched between the more flavorful Morrowind and more popular Skyrim.
The new trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps finally shows us stretchy Pedro Pascal (but only for about two seconds)
News C'mon, Marvel, we know Mr. Fantastic's rubbery noodle body looks goofy as hell. You can't hide it forever.
Co-op submarine survival simulator Barotrauma has a free weekend on Steam, so dive in with friends and experience the most comically horrifying deaths you can imagine
News It's the first free weekend for the submarine horror game since it went 1.0 in 2023.
