Latest articles by Christopher Livingston
How to watch the first episode of Fallout without an Amazon Prime subscription
News A handful of Twitch streamers will show Fallout episode 1 live on their channels.
This base-building automation game looks like Factorio in space with bullet hell combat and Dyson spheres
News In Final Factory you construct huge automated space stations and battle aliens while exploring the galaxy.
This criminally overlooked golf game just got a huge update, including a new career mode
News If you've been looking for the perfect golf game for your Steam Deck, this is it.
You're the cameraperson for a sexy '90s reality show in this upcoming 'thirst-person shooter'
News In The Crush House there are sexy single contestants vying for attention, and you're the producer chasing viewers.
April is a monster month for city builders and colony sims
Stacked Grab your hammers and get ready to build.
This year's best April Fools' Day gaming gags: Bears, bugs, and 97,000 floppy disks
Fool's Gold That Elden Ring expansion just keeps expanding, doesn't it?
House Flipper 2 just became a platformer with a new 'The Floor Is Lava' mode, and no, it's not just an April Fools' joke
News Create courses, race through them, and share them with other players in this new free mode.
I'm obsessed with the bizarre 16th century inspired creature design in roguelike deckbuilder Hermetica
News A naked man with a face covering its torso. A snail with a human head. And one that's half-nun and half…I don't know what.
One of our favorite city builders has sold over a million copies on Steam, and there's an expansion on the way
News Roguelike strategy builder Against the Storm reaches a big milestone, with no plans to slow down.
The Taskmaster videogame has a creative mode so you can invent your own custom tasks and challenge your friends
News If you've ever wanted to judge your pals like Lord Greg Davies does… your time starts soon.
Survival MMO Dune: Awakening wants to 'pull people away from competing and fighting over bases' and have them battle over spice instead
News Funcom says PvP works best when players are "fighting over something that's not as personal as your base."
Why Funcom didn't give Dune: Awakening an 'endowment slider' like Conan Exiles
News Conan's world is "savage" and "sexy" says Dune: Awakening's executive producer. Dune's world? Not so much.
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.
