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
How to respec in Baldur's Gate 3
By Christopher Livingston published
Clean Slate Baldur's Gate 3 lets you respec your characters, including origin characters and other companions. Here's how.
5 things you really shouldn't miss in the first 5 hours of Baldur's Gate 3
By Christopher Livingston published
Perception Check With so much to do when you're just starting out, here are a few highlights you should hit when you start playing.
How big is Starfield, anyway?
By Len Hafer published
telescoped Todd Howard has given us some hints, but a lot remains shrouded in mystery.
Fallout 4's best mod is coming to a dramatic conclusion
By Christopher Livingston published
News The final chapter of the Sim Settlements 2 mod has arrived, and war's coming with it.
Cities: Skylines 2 is 'roughly 5 times bigger' than the original
By Christopher Livingston published
News A new dev diary for the city builder sequel shows how much bigger the buildable area is in Cities: Skylines 2.
TIE Fighter: Total Conversion patch adds ray tracing, but honestly I'm way more excited about the animated concourse menu
By Christopher Livingston published
News One of the best mods ever made just keeps getting better.
Creature collecting game wants you to shoot 'em all, catch 'em all, work 'em all to death, dispose of 'em all in a huge corpse pile
By Christopher Livingston published
news Palworld is sorta like Pokémon with guns, and a new trailer shows you how to effectively use (and abuse) your pals.
The other space game I'm dying to play just got an August release date
By Christopher Livingston published
News Jumplight Odyssey is a mix of FTL, Two Point Hospital, and RimWorld, and it launches next month.
This new 16-player '100% cooperative' survival game is inspired by Valheim, Terraria, and Minecraft
By Christopher Livingston published
news Codename: Islands is the working title for a new shared world survival game set on a "magical, living island."
Dave the Diver was inspired by a real oceanside seafood restaurant… and Metal Gear Solid
By Christopher Livingston published
News Game Director Jaeho Hwang tells us what games influenced Dave the Diver, which include Mystery Dungeon and Yakuza.
One of Dave The Diver's boss monsters may return in a future update
By Christopher Livingston published
News One of the undersea bosses you defeat slips away, but it may someday return to fight you again.
One of my favorite survival city builders just got a brand new building mode and a huge discount
By Christopher Livingston published
News Medieval city builder Patron now has a creative mode that unlocks everything from the start, and a 70% discount until July 28.
To build words you first have to craft each letter in this clever factory puzzle game
By Christopher Livingston published
News In Word Factori, all you have is the letter I. But that I can be bent, flipped, and welded in different ways to form more letters.
Every Wordle player should try Waffle, a daily word puzzle that's gotten more popular than actual waffles
By Christopher Livingston published
News And unlike Wordle, you don't have to limit yourself to one play per day.
Cozy community MMO Palia turns fishing and cooking into co-op activities
By Christopher Livingston published
news You can do them alone, but they look far more fun with friends.
Cities: Skylines 2 gets real as hell with welfare offices, prison labor
By Christopher Livingston published
News Every city has a dark side.
Valheim cheats: All codes and console commands to wield godly power
By Christopher Livingston last updated
Godlike Valheim cheats to enable god mode, add skill points, spawn items, and more.
The base-building system in this fantasy co-op survival RPG looks pretty incredible
By Christopher Livingston published
news Enshrouded is part Zelda, part Valheim, and has some seriously impressive base-building tools.
I'm not sure if it's funny or nightmarish but this Chrome extension adds MrBeast's excitedly gaping maw to every single YouTube thumbnail
By Christopher Livingston published
News MrBeast is everywhere, but sometimes everywhere just isn't enough.
Dave the Diver review: A charming adventure packed with activities, surprises, heart, and fish
By Christopher Livingston published
Shrimply the best Dive for fish by day, run a sushi restaurant by night, and get swept up in adventure in your free time.
For the first time in my life I'm wishing a game had more cutscenes instead of zero cutscenes
By Christopher Livingston published
Showtime I'm a lifelong cutscene crank, but Dave the Diver's are so good I'm changing my tune.
2022's best survival city builder will let you 'customize your faith' with a new religion system
By Christopher Livingston published
News Farthest Frontier's next big update introduces spiritual relics that give your city bonuses beyond just citizen happiness.
Here are the 7 city builders coming out before the end of 2023 I'm most excited about
By Christopher Livingston published
stacked City builder fans should be happy: there's still a lot to look forward to before the end of this year.