
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

Ark: Survival Evolved cheats and console commands
By Christopher Livingston last updated
cheat-rex Cheat codes for Ark on PC: use god mode, fly, teleport, unlock all engrams, tame dinos, and more.

No Man's Sky is getting 'trillions of new planets,' some with oceans 'several kilometers deep,' plus explorable 'end-game' gas giants
By Christopher Livingston published
News Sean Murray says new engine advances in Light No Fire's development creates "…this urge to share it with the [No Man's Sky] community"

I only just noticed this, but Merriam-Webster has put together a solid collection of free daily puzzle browser games
By Christopher Livingston published
free bee If you want a free alternative to NYT's Wordle and Spelling Bee, M-W's got your back.

Enshrouded 1.0 target date and 2025 roadmap revealed, new update arriving today, and dynamic water on the way
By Christopher Livingston published
News The next 12 months of Enshrouded updates are full of exciting stuff.

It's been about four years, so yeah, let's go ahead and give Resident Evil yet another movie reboot
By Christopher Livingston published
news Zach Cregger of Barbarian is reportedly set to write and direct the horror revamp.

I missed this co-op open world base-builder when it first came out, but it's got over 10,000 positive Steam reviews and it's free to play all weekend
By Christopher Livingston published
News It felt Necesse-ary to tell you about this freebie you can check out with your buddies.

The best GTA 5 mods
By Christopher Livingston, Joe Donnelly, Rick Lane, Heather Newman last updated
New and updated! Our favourite tweaks include forests in San Andreas and more than 50 new heists.

Mythic Quest Season 4: Still a nimble comedy with a ton of heart, and the best it's been since its first season
By Christopher Livingston published
Season Pass The workplace comedy about a dysfunctional MMO studio is breezy, occasionally biting, and sweet without overdoing it.

Of all the Balatro-likes on Steam, I think I'm enjoying this Mahjong version best
By Christopher Livingston published
News Aotenjo: Infinite Hands doesn't have a lotta flash, but enchanting tiles to rack up multipliers is quietly satisfying.

The 20 best cozy games on PC that aren't farm sims
By Lauren Morton last updated
Cozy Games If you need more chill in your game library, these are the best cozy games you can play on PC.

The Borderlands movie gets 6 'Razzie' nominations including Worst Picture, plus 2 separate nominations just for Jack Black's acting as Claptrap
By Christopher Livingston published
News 2024's bomb continues to bomb.

Steam reviewers finally trolled me: I bought a game they called 'calm' and 'relaxing' before I noticed those were the 'funny' reviews
By Christopher Livingston published
stress test "Mini Motorways is a dystopian horror story disguised as a traffic sim," said a more helpful review that I didn't read.

'Please remember the game has no plot': Vampire Survivors dev points out one of the many challenges in turning its roguelike into a live-action film
By Christopher Livingston published
News Poncle also says adapting Vampire Survivors "requires good ideas, creativity, and that quirky knowledge of the game, that is a very difficult triplet to get 100% right."

Horror movie adaptation of horror movie-style horror game Until Dawn goes the time-loop route, so it's basically Groundhog Day with monsters
By Christopher Livingston published
News Here's our first look at the movie based on Supermassive's 2015 horror hit.

They've started putting arms onto robot vacuums, so we're closer to either getting our own R2D2 or being strangled in our sleep
By Christopher Livingston published
News And not just arms: one upcoming robot vacuums has legs, too.

Former Stalker dev reveals new FPS set in a post-apocalyptic Paris that's been overrun by sentient trees
By Christopher Livingston published
News Nature gets twisted in VG Entertainment's Forest Reigns.

Black holes, buildings on poles, and a 'sea urchin planet': PUBG creator's world-sized tech demo may be hiding some bizarre machine learning 'hallucinations'
By Christopher Livingston published
News "There's always going to be a little hallucination" with machine learning, says PlayerUnknown Productions' engine team behind Preface: Undiscovered World.

Studio Wildcard remains quiet on Ark 2's release date, but just revealed a two-year roadmap for Ark: Survival Ascended
By Christopher Livingston published
News Ark 2 missed its 2024 release, and we still haven't heard why, or when and even if the dino-Diesel-sequel is still coming.

High-flying RPG city builder Airborne Empire has launched on Steam, and it's testing my balancing skills in more ways than one
By Christopher Livingston published
News I'm attempting to keep resources, defense, and productivity balanced while literally trying to keep my city from tilting over.

If you're trying to convince me your 'companionship' robot is 'lifelike', maybe don't rip her face off in the demo video
By Christopher Livingston published
News The Uncanny Valley just got some startling new inhabitants.

If you missed it over the holidays, this noir Half-Life 2 mod turns you into a hardboiled detective in Prohibition-era Chicago
By Christopher Livingston published
News The Burton Equation is full of fedoras, Tommy guns, and, oh yeah, time travel.

Track down a missing person in this 'Geoguessr-inspired detective game' set on an alien planet
By Christopher Livingston published
News Find a missing archeologist lost in a strange alien world.

18 games the PC Gamer team can't wait to play in 2025
By Phil Savage published
🕹️ There's lots to look forward to this year.
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