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 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.

Survival sandbox Core Keeper gets explosive next week with a whole new skill tree devoted to bombs and grenades
By Christopher Livingston published
News And you'll need 'em because there's a huge new buggy boss to battle.

The thing I'm most excited about in Assassin's Creed Shadows is my hideout: 'a little over one acre of fully customizable land' to build on, decorate, and fill with pettable baby deer
By Christopher Livingston published
News The way I play it, Ubisoft's stealth game is actually gonna be a zoo management sim.

The best indie games on PC
By Jody Macgregor last updated
Small but mighty These are the best indie games you can play on PC.

Will another Avengers game be assembled? 'We would definitely be open to it' says Joe Russo, co-director of Avengers: Doomsday
By Christopher Livingston published
News Russo's studio, AGBO, which includes former Fortnite director Donald Mustard, is "very tuned in to gaming."

This is the coolest pricing gimmick I've ever seen: the temperature in London determines the price of this videogame
By Christopher Livingston published
Updated every hour, the temperature in London (in Celsius) is how much this game costs (in US dollars).

Based on its new trailer, I predict A Minecraft Movie will make A Trillion Dollars
By Christopher Livingston published
News Kids are gonna like Jack Black holding up items from Minecraft, like a water bucket, while he yells the words "WATER BUCKET!"

The first gameplay trailer for PUBG creator's 'brutal' survival game shows off deadly weather and cozy cabins
By Christopher Livingston published
Prologue: Go Wayback! enters early access this summer.

Adult game dev reveals annual gamer 'kink survey' results: 'Monster Girls' are on top, but 'Tentacles dropped out of the top 25'
By Christopher Livingston published
News Developer HotPink Games shares which kinks its players are most into in 2025 compared to other years.

The best survival games on PC
By Christopher Livingston last updated
stay alive The best games for surviving against the odds.

'I'm an idiot': MrBeast says he lost 'tens of millions of dollars' of his own money on Amazon's Beast Games
By Christopher Livingston published
News "I lost money. I would have more money if I didn't film it."

Andor Season 2 trailer is action-packed, but hopefully the show is still actually packed with interesting people quietly talking to each other
By Christopher Livingston published
News The new season of Andor comes to Disney+ April 22, packing 12 episodes into just four weeks.

Sea of Thieves in space? Not quite, but Jump Ship replicates a lot of the things that make Rare's pirate sandbox so fun
By Christopher Livingston published
Ship Shape There's no PvP and it's not open world, but it still has a lot in common with Rare's pirate sandbox.

'It's like Die Hard but with more comedy': Immersive FPS Skin Deep has talking cats, banana traps, and enemies you can disable by making them sneeze
By Christopher Livingston published
News Stop space pirates as a former assassin turned "insurance commando" in the immersive sim from Blendo Games.

This open world bicycling game from the developer of Nidhogg is so chill that 'you don't really have to do any of the challenges if you don't want to'
By Christopher Livingston published
News "You can just cruise around and appreciate the scenery," says Wheel World developer Mark Essen of Meshoff.

I am begging you not to watch this ghostly white 'faceless, anatomically accurate' robot dangling from wires and silently thrashing its sinewy limbs
By Christopher Livingston published
News I'm not joking. Don't look at it.

Dune: Awakening: Everything we know about Funcom's survival MMO
By Christopher Livingston published
Spicy The spice must flow in the alt-history Dune MMO.

The survival game with the best car ever has sold over a million copies in a year, and is now 40% off on Steam
By Christopher Livingston published
News Pacific Drive, the driving survival game, has gotten quite a few passengers since it launched a year ago.

HBO announces The Last of Us Season 2 release date: April 13
By Christopher Livingston published
News Sad Dad vs. the Mushroom Monsters, round two.

Exploit asteroids for resources using automated mining equipment as they hurtle through your space-claim in Astronomics
By Christopher Livingston published
News Asteroid mining can be pretty chill, except for that ticking clock.

Steven Spielberg's 'reportedly UFO-related' movie doesn't even have a name yet, but it has a release date
By Christopher Livingston published
News Let's hope it's better than the last UFO movie he did—spoiler—Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

The best Skyrim Special Edition mods
By Jody Macgregor, Christopher Livingston last updated
Updated! The best Skyrim Special Edition mods are as numerous as the best mods for vanilla Skyrim.

Keep Driving review: Great characters, challenging resource management, and impeccable road trip vibes
By Christopher Livingston published
Thumbs Up A management RPG that perfectly captures the feel of a long and memorable road trip.
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