Latest articles by Christopher Livingston
My favorite game of 2024, Blue Prince, finally has a release window… in 2025
Blue Prince is a mystery mansion puzzle game I can't wait for everyone else to play.
PlayerUnknown's survival game Prologue will hit early access in the first half of 2025
News If you can't wait that long, there will be community playtests ahead of the early access launch.
PUBG creator Brendan Greene just released a free tech demo of his new game engine on Steam that lets you play with 'an Earth-scale world generated in real-time'
News Preface: Undiscovered World lets players generate and explore Earth-sized worlds.
The creators of Secret Level say Bandai Namco encouraged them to do 'whatever we want' with an iconic character: 'We would like audiences to wonder what the f**k they did with Pac-Man'
News No spoilers, but the Pac-Man episode of Secret Level is a wild one, and Bandai Namco was fine with that.
The best indie games on PC
Small but mighty These are the best indie games you can play on PC.
Another big Stalker 2 patch just arrived to fix the main mission, side quests, and input lag
News A few more anomalies (by which I mean progress-blocking bugs) have been dealt with.
If you missed April's total solar eclipse, you can see it in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
News Set the clock for April 8, 2024, fly around its path in North America, and you'll get a second showing of the celestial event.
Great moments in PC gaming: Being hunted by enemies so scary I spent most of Assassin's Creed Origins hiding from them
Seek & Destroy The Phylakes roamed the open world looking for you, and they were no joke.
The best deals in the 2024 Steam Autumn Sale
deals We've combed the latest Steam sale for the best deals on new games and older favorites.
My new survival game obsession looks like Minecraft but is way more complex—and you won't find it on Steam
Your Craft Vintage Story looks like yet another blocky voxel game, but it's got a surprising amount of complexity and it's highly customizable.
Get rich quick with these Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord cheats
Lordmode Bannerlord cheats to create gold, level you up, knock out enemies, teleport, and much more.
If you think Stalker 2 is buggy, wait until you climb aboard Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
News And keep your seatbelt fastened until we spawn upside-down halfway inside the airport.
Stalker 2's survival systems haven't changed since the last game 15 years ago, and I'm not sure if I'm happy or disappointed
☢️ I'm not saying it needs elaborate cooking and crafting systems, but it'd be nice to heat up a sausage and fix my own guns.
The first bug I saw in Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is the same bug I saw in Stalker: Call of Pripyat 14 years ago, and I find that downright heartwarming
jank tank Even a decade and a half later in a new engine, a specific bit of jank still abides.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's waiting queue is gone, so you should be able to get in now
News Though there may still be problems playing: "We are aware of additional technical issues that the team is working to address."
Farming Simulator 25 harvested a crop of 2 million players in its first week
News That's 30% more than Farming Simulator 22 saw in the same time period.
You can turn Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 into 'basically an economy sim' where you hire pilots to fly for you
News The new career system will let you eventually own the company, design a logo, and be your own boss.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will simulate '3 trillion trees' and is borrowing all its animals from Planet Zoo
News "We know where every bush is, and every tree," says Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann.
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch was the best multiplayer mode ever, or maybe I just think that because it's the only one I was ever good at
🚽 I was routinely at the top of the leaderboards because I was pretty good at throwing toilets.
Gabe Newell ponders the future in new Half-Life 2 documentary: 'I think that Half-Life represents a tool we have and promises made to customers'
News Newell wants Valve to "capitalize on innovation and opportunities to build game experiences that haven't been involved previously."
The best survival games on PC
staying alive The best games for surviving against the odds.
It makes perfect sense that Mythic Quest, Apple TV's comedy series about an MMORPG, is getting an expansion next year
News Season 4 of Mythic Quest begins in January, and a spinoff series called Side Quest begins (and ends) in March.
How to use Farming Simulator 25 console commands to give yourself infinite money
Cash Crop A few simple steps will give you access to Farming Simulator 25's console commands.
