Latest articles by Christopher Livingston
Dune: Awakening's survival systems might do the impossible: make smashing boulders and collecting water fun
let's rock Harvesting rocks and stockpiling water are usually mindless chores, but in Funcom's survival MMO they look kinda enjoyable.
The first big Enshrouded update has 'a brand new spooky NPC,' also you can sit on toilets now
News The co-op survival RPG gets new dungeons, new enemies, plus all the round doors a hobbit could want.
Developer of survival MMO Last Oasis explains why they're launching a new early access survival game before they finish their last one: 'It was either that or shutting down'
News Last Oasis and Bellwright project lead Florian Hofreither says the choices were "fire 90% of my studio, or we start a new game."
'Is Dave The Diver an indie game? I would say no,' says game director
news "Everyone says triple-A or indie, but there's so many games in between," Jaeho Hwang of Mintrocket said at GDC.
My favorite game at GDC is a first-person puzzler where you build a mansion of mysteries one room at a time
GDC 2024 I only played Blue Prince for an hour, but a day later I'm still playing it in my head.
Watch a bunch of game developers screaming in a public park to protest the state of the industry: 'It feels hard to be here and pretend like everything is fine'
news Amidst the excitement of GDC, dozens of developers shared a moment of pure catharsis.
Starfield's lead quest designer had 'absolutely no time' and had to hit the 'panic button' so the game would have a satisfying final quest
News "It became very clear that we were missing the large final location that was going to tie the story together," says former lead quest designer Will Shen.
One of Wordle's most requested features has nothing to do with words
News Jonathan Knight, Head of Games for the New York Times, tells us what Wordle players want most.
Library heists, bandit bribes, and multiple orgasms: how I became a happy king in medieval strategy sim Norland
👑 It's good to be the king... eventually.
The best deals in the 2024 Steam Spring Sale
Deals We've combed the first big Steam sale of the year for the best deals on new games and older favorites.
Enshrouded's new 2024 roadmap has dozens of features players have been clamoring for
news Water! Weather! NPCs in towns! (Plus those NPCs will have pets.) And round doors so your hobbit holes will feel more LOTR-y.
Steam's latest big hit is a little game about stuffing a huge backpack full of magic items
News Backpack Battles sold over 100,000 copies in two days of early access. After playing a few rounds, I can see why.
Nearly 2,000 Wordle clones targeted as NYT issues DMCA takedown
news NYT says its Wordle copyright includes "unique elements" of its game like "the 5x6 grid" and "green tiles to indicate correct guesses."
Watch Walton Goggins do a bunch of chems and blast a fist-sized hole in a dude in the new Fallout series trailer
News See The Ghoul in action… before and after the bombs fell.
Ready to binge? Every episode of Amazon's Fallout TV show will be available at once on April 11
News The new Fallout show trailer reveals that you'll be able to binge it if you want.
The Frostpunk 2 release date trailer is here, along with two ways to play the survival city builder before launch
News Frostpunk 2 is launching in July, but people who preorder can play it earlier. Like... months earlier.
This mashup of city builder and grand strategy will take you from building a capital city to achieving 'total global domination'
news In Kaiserpunk, you don't just manage a city, you span the globe.
Why survival MMO Dune: Awakening won't have sandwalking: 'It looked ridiculous and it made you walk really slowly'
news Dune: Awakening's creative director Joel Bylos says "we made an attempt at" the Fremen practice of sandwalking, but it wound up being a drag.
You can claim land for your base on Arrakis in survival MMO Dune: Awakening, but you'll have to pay the Emperor for it
News Here's our first look at Dune: Awakening base-building... but there's no escape from paying taxes, even in space.
Poker-themed deckbuilder Balatro gets delisted from some stores after its PEGI rating absurdly jumps from 3 to 18+ over 'gambling imagery'
News "I do not condone gambling," says Balatro developer LocalThunk, "nor do I believe that Balatro contains gambling."
We're riding shotgun with Pacific Drive to give away a free copy of the game and a carload of great gear
Giveaway! Win a code for Pacific Drive along with a vintage toolbox, a mechanic's shirt with customized name tag, a bobblehead, a bumper sticker, and more.
'I don't play poker at all' says solo developer who made the poker roguelike I can't stop playing
Big Deck Energy Developer LocalThunk says his deckbuilder, Balatro, is actually based on a game called Big Two, not poker.
