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
The best deals in the 2024 Steam Winter Sale
By Tyler Wilde published
Deals The last Steam sale of the year is here, and we've combed it for great discounts on brand new games and our favorite classics.
Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page
By Christopher Livingston published
News Hope you're not bashful about the data in your 2024 Steam Replay!
The best Steam Deck games
By Wes Fenlon last updated
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
By Christopher Livingston published
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
By Christopher Livingston published
🏆 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'
By Christopher Livingston published
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'
By Christopher Livingston published
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
By Christopher Livingston published
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
By Christopher Livingston published
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
By Lauren Morton published
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
By Christopher Livingston published
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
By Christopher Livingston published
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
By Christopher Livingston published
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
By Christopher Livingston published
Hello Games describes it as "Luigi's Mansion meets Overcooked."
Dave the Diver is heading to the jungle in 2025
By Christopher Livingston published
News And he's bringing his friends along with him.
The Sims 4 cheats: Every cheat code and life hack you need
By Lauren Morton last updated
Updated! All of the Sims 4 cheats for each expansion, all in one convenient place.
Skyrim console commands: cheats for an unbeatable Dragonborn
By Christopher Livingston last updated
Guide God mode, no clip, and and maxed out skills are just a few Skyrim console commands away.
Build a floating neighborhood with your friends in this vibrant MMO life sim that crowdfunded over $1.2 million
By Christopher Livingston published
News Loftia is a "cozy multiplayer world" where you can build a sustainable town with your pals.
Detective adventure Strange Antiquities makes me want to be an apprentice thaumaturge, right after I look up what thaumaturge means
By Christopher Livingston published
News The sequel to puzzle game Strange Horticulture gives you lots of new tools to investigate mysterious occult relics.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's career mode is buggy and frustrating and I can't stop playing it
By Christopher Livingston published
Bumpy Ride I will start a successful airline company if I have to fly my way through a thousand glitches.
Well, that's a new twist: save a town by turning it into a giant pinball game in open world adventure Pinbleton Park
By Christopher Livingston published
News Can't wait to get my flippers on this one.
Forget inheriting a dumpy old farm: your cool uncle left you a 'seaplane delivery service' in this open world life sim
By Christopher Livingston published
News Explore islands, build and decorate a house, and grow your airborne business in Lou's Lagoon.
Factorio, but cozy? Little Rocket Lab is a factory builder with plenty of Stardew Valley vibes
By Christopher Livingston published
News Build automated contraptions while getting to know the townsfolk in a cozy village.
In this cozy survival game you're a mouse who knits tiny wool sweaters, bakes pies for his friends, lives in a furnished tree trunk, and I can't even go on because it's so darn cute
By Christopher Livingston published
News Stay warm and fed all through the coldest months in survival game Winter Burrow.
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