Latest articles by Christopher Livingston
What are your 2025 gaming resolutions?
reload Are you making some new gaming habits or breaking a few old ones?
Gulp! Dune: Awakening beta testers are dying of thirst nearly as often as they're dying of sandworms, and some are even drinking mouse blood to stay alive
News "Close to a hundred [kangaroo mice] had their blood extracted," says Funcom. "How could you?"
New beverage technology unlocked: this gaming controller mug keeps your drink warm and has a trigger so you can sip and shoot at the same time
News "The Trigger Mug integrates existing mobile gaming technology into an elegantly designed tea mug, allowing players to maintain full gaming control."
Why do some games get a pass for jank and others don't?
bug hunt When encountering jank I either find myself charmed or gnash my teeth in anger. No middle ground.
I played a whopping 23 city builders in 2024, and here are my 5 favorites
🏠 (Plus a bunch more city builders from 2024 that I also recommend.)
For all you mayors managing your budgets, here are 5 city builders from 2024 with great discounts in the Steam Winter Sale
Steam has some nice deals on new city builders, just in time for the holidays.
This co-op survival horror masterpiece is just $2 in the Steam Winter Sale, which could explain why it just hit an all-time high player count of nearly 100k a decade after it launched
10 years after it debuted in early access, The Forest keeps finding new fans.
Now that Lucy is somewhere around level 8, what do you want to see in the Fallout show's second season?
Gratz Our hopes and dreams for the second season.
Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page
News Hope you're not bashful about the data in your 2024 Steam Replay!
The best Steam Deck games
Steam On The games everyone should have installed on Valve's gaming handheld.
The director of Saw and Insidious is turning one of 2024's best survival games into a TV show
news James Wan's production company, Atomic Monster, plans to develop a Pacific Drive TV series.
If you love mystery novels and detective shows, The Rise of the Golden Idol is the perfect game for you
🏆 Gather clues, piece together a narrative, and crack increasingly difficult cases.
The Sims designer Will Wright says a 'Britney Spears-level' pop star loved her 'mundane' life in The Sims: 'It is so boring, it's wonderful'
News "A mundane life, getting up, having a routine, that was her fantasy," Wright said on Twitch.
The Sims designer Will Wright is making his next life sim more personal by building it with your actual memories: 'No game designer has ever gone wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players'
News "It goes to figure that the more I can make a game about you, the more you'll like it," Wright said playfully while discussing his next life sim, Proxi.
In survival game Rust, Santa Claus doesn't care if you've been good or bad or really, really bad, he still has gifts for you
News Hang up a stocking in your base and it'll be filled with goodies by Saint Nick (and no coal, even if you've been naughty).
7 hardcore survival games that are great to play in peaceful mode
Chill Out There are ways to enjoy great survival systems without constant combat.
The Game Awards were stacked with even more big reveals than we expected this year
Roundup This year's show had tons of reveals that would have been the "one more thing" in another year.
Watch Kyle Crane activate beast mode (and drive his new car) in Dying Light: The Beast
News The original hero of Dying Light returns for a new standalone game next summer.
You're invited to join a family 'bound by blood' when Mafia: The Old Country releases in summer of 2025
The Mafia series prequel takes place in Sicily in the 1900s and depicts the birth of organized crime.
'I want to thank the fans of New Vegas for not burning my house to the ground,' says Jonathan Nolan while accepting a Game Award for the Fallout TV show
News "You'll be very happy you didn't."
The makers of Overcooked have teamed up with No Man's Sky developer Hello Games to release a new local and online co-op escape room game: Stage Fright
Hello Games describes it as "Luigi's Mansion meets Overcooked."
