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
Oh no, Rust just added my least favorite item from DayZ: handcuffs
By Christopher Livingston published
News The Road Renegades update also comes with a prisoner hood. Don't get captured.
In this satirical city builder, your goal is to convert walkable cities into parking lots and use propaganda to convince everyone it's what they want
By Christopher Livingston published
news In city builder Car Park Capital, why walk when you can drive… and park.
Stardew Valley players on Steam Deck can test out the new Nexus Mods app
By Christopher Livingston published
News Calling all farmers!
This Skyrim mod makes tableware so gloriously beautiful I can't stop staring at it
By Christopher Livingston published
News I might actually stop kicking it off the table and onto the floor every time I run through a dining room.
The best deals in the 2024 Steam Summer Sale
By Wes Fenlon published
🏖️ Our top picks for 2024 and 2023 games on sale, plus old favorites on sale up to 95% off.
Frostpunk 2 delayed because its developers want to add features 'you deserve to see in-game on day one, not in a patch added after the release'
By Christopher Livingston published
News 11 Bit Studios said its survival city builder needs more time "to guarantee the best possible experience at launch."
Yeehaw! 'Red Dead Redemption meets Stardew Valley' in cozy cowboy life sim Cattle Country
By Christopher Livingston published
News Farm, fish, raise livestock, fall in love (not with the livestock), battle bandits, and carve out a cozy home, home on the range.
This twin-stick shooter is a Desert Strike throwback except your helicopter talks, drinks blood, and defends the world from a lizard-man invasion
By Christopher Livingston published
News Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess is just as badass as it sounds.
The latest friendship-ruining co-op game on Steam is a punishing platformer where you're chained to your pals, and it's about to crack 100,000 concurrent players
By Christopher Livingston published
News Chained Together requires a lot of coordination, and even more forgiveness.
Farming Simulator 25 announced, with a collector's edition that includes a 'USB ignition lock' that lets you turn a real key to start your virtual tractors
By Christopher Livingston published
news On the one hand that's supremely silly, but on the other hand I 100% want it.
'Maybe this new Stardew Valley-like game is pretty good' I said to myself after blearily noticing I'd played it until 2 in the morning
By Christopher Livingston published
charm farm Farming life sim Everafter Falls sunk its cozy hooks into me pretty quickly.
In Dune: Awakening you 'physically fly' your ornithopter between servers on an overland map filled with 'hundreds of other players'
By Christopher Livingston published
News Funcom explains the nuts and bolts of how its MMO works.
The two most-played games on Steam today are Counter-Strike 2 and this game where you click a banana
By Christopher Livingston published
news The idle clicker is also poised to break Baldur's Gate 3's record for concurrent players.
Manor Lords players overwhelmingly vote against changing historically accurate yet NSFW character name
By Christopher Livingston published
news The medieval city builder's community fiercely protects its finest meme.
Dying in Spelunky sometimes makes me mad, but it always just makes me laugh in comically brutal roguelike Lucky Tower Ultimate
By Christopher Livingston published
News The classic Flash roguelike series Lucky Tower is being reborn on Steam, and you can play the demo for free.
Skyrim player killing Nazeem every single day until The Elder Scrolls 6 is released has now done it 1,000 times, celebrates with a Nazeem-only battle royale
By Christopher Livingston published
News Spoiler alert: One Nazeem defeats all the other Nazeems and is then promptly killed anyway.
Let's pour one out for these no-shows we were desperate to see during Summer Game Fest
By Kara Phillips published
Maybe next time Maybe in the next life.
Our 13 favorite games from the 2024 summer gaming showcases
By Tyler Wilde published
best in show After seeing what felt like hundreds of games, we've picked a few that really stood out.
A new Anno city builder is coming in 2025, this time set in Ancient Rome
By Christopher Livingston published
News Anno 117: Pax Romana was announced at Ubisoft Forward, targeted for 2025.
There are so many great city builder demos on Steam right now, you can play 3 new ones every single day this week
By Christopher Livingston published
Mayors Needed Steam Next Fest gives us our best chance ever to check out all the city builders headed our way.
Let's count all the ways I'm gonna die horribly in the new Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl trailer
By Christopher Livingston published
news Controller, check. Pseudogiant, definitely. Dogs? Absolutely. Anomalies, bandits, and the list goes on.
Dread, tension, and tough choices abound in stealthy zombie survival game Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
By Christopher Livingston published
PCGS The city has fallen to the zombie horde. Can you escape before it's too late?
You're not just solving word puzzles in Lok Digital, you're advancing civilization for these adorable inky little worm dudes
By Christopher Livingston published
PCGS Learn a new language in a puzzle game that lets you figure out the rules for yourself.