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
Former GTA dev says 'it's time for a revolution' where 'animation is more AI-driven and physics-driven' than done by hand
By Christopher Livingston published
News "If anyone is going to make that step it's going to be Rockstar," said Obbe Vermeij, former technical director at Rockstar North.
Make your own Deadpool & Wolverine movie with this surprisingly deep movie studio management sim
By Christopher Livingston published
News If you've ever wanted to make your own Marvel movie, now's your chance.
Co-op survival game Enshrouded now lets you make things way tougher, or way easier, with an update that adds more than 30 difficulty sliders
By Christopher Livingston published
news Enable starvation, change boss health and damage, tweak how long it takes plants to grow, and even dictate if enemies attack you on sight or not.
As an old guy playing Stardew Valley, I should be allowed to date the bus driver
By Christopher Livingston published
Pam Stan Stardew Valley's romanceable characters all feel way too young for this Gen Xer. Make the oldies datable, please.
The 'Skibidi Toilet multiverse' is 'absolutely in talks' to become a TV and movie series from Michael Bay
By Christopher Livingston published
News The absurdist machinima series "could be the next Transformers or could be a Marvel's universe," according to movie executive Adam Goodman.
Stardew Valley creator swears 'on the honor of my family name' that he'll never charge money for DLC
By Christopher Livingston published
news "Screencap this and shame me if I ever violate this oath," Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone said on Twitter.
The best VR games on PC
By Christopher Livingston, Samuel Horti, Andy Kelly last updated
Updated The best VR games for the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Valve Index.
Oh no, Rust just added my least favorite item from DayZ: handcuffs
By Christopher Livingston published
News The Road Renegades update also comes with a prisoner hood. Don't get captured.
In this satirical city builder, your goal is to convert walkable cities into parking lots and use propaganda to convince everyone it's what they want
By Christopher Livingston published
news In city builder Car Park Capital, why walk when you can drive… and park.
Stardew Valley players on Steam Deck can test out the new Nexus Mods app
By Christopher Livingston published
News Calling all farmers!
This Skyrim mod makes tableware so gloriously beautiful I can't stop staring at it
By Christopher Livingston published
News I might actually stop kicking it off the table and onto the floor every time I run through a dining room.
The best deals in the 2024 Steam Summer Sale
By Wes Fenlon published
🏖️ Our top picks for 2024 and 2023 games on sale, plus old favorites on sale up to 95% off.
Frostpunk 2 delayed because its developers want to add features 'you deserve to see in-game on day one, not in a patch added after the release'
By Christopher Livingston published
News 11 Bit Studios said its survival city builder needs more time "to guarantee the best possible experience at launch."
Yeehaw! 'Red Dead Redemption meets Stardew Valley' in cozy cowboy life sim Cattle Country
By Christopher Livingston published
News Farm, fish, raise livestock, fall in love (not with the livestock), battle bandits, and carve out a cozy home, home on the range.
This twin-stick shooter is a Desert Strike throwback except your helicopter talks, drinks blood, and defends the world from a lizard-man invasion
By Christopher Livingston published
News Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess is just as badass as it sounds.
The latest friendship-ruining co-op game on Steam is a punishing platformer where you're chained to your pals, and it's about to crack 100,000 concurrent players
By Christopher Livingston published
News Chained Together requires a lot of coordination, and even more forgiveness.
Farming Simulator 25 announced, with a collector's edition that includes a 'USB ignition lock' that lets you turn a real key to start your virtual tractors
By Christopher Livingston published
news On the one hand that's supremely silly, but on the other hand I 100% want it.
'Maybe this new Stardew Valley-like game is pretty good' I said to myself after blearily noticing I'd played it until 2 in the morning
By Christopher Livingston published
charm farm Farming life sim Everafter Falls sunk its cozy hooks into me pretty quickly.
In Dune: Awakening you 'physically fly' your ornithopter between servers on an overland map filled with 'hundreds of other players'
By Christopher Livingston published
News Funcom explains the nuts and bolts of how its MMO works.
The two most-played games on Steam today are Counter-Strike 2 and this game where you click a banana
By Christopher Livingston published
news The idle clicker is also poised to break Baldur's Gate 3's record for concurrent players.
Manor Lords players overwhelmingly vote against changing historically accurate yet NSFW character name
By Christopher Livingston published
news The medieval city builder's community fiercely protects its finest meme.
Dying in Spelunky sometimes makes me mad, but it always just makes me laugh in comically brutal roguelike Lucky Tower Ultimate
By Christopher Livingston published
News The classic Flash roguelike series Lucky Tower is being reborn on Steam, and you can play the demo for free.
Skyrim player killing Nazeem every single day until The Elder Scrolls 6 is released has now done it 1,000 times, celebrates with a Nazeem-only battle royale
By Christopher Livingston published
News Spoiler alert: One Nazeem defeats all the other Nazeems and is then promptly killed anyway.
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