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

I am the law, man, thanks to this mod for Red Dead Redemption 2
By Christopher Livingston published
Mod Column My first days as a sheriff in the First Response mod don't go as smoothly as hoped.

Robot watch: The weirdest things the clankers did this month including moonwalking themselves to death, losing a fight to a step, and drowning by the dozens in Sydney Harbour
By Christopher Livingston published
🤖 Android are you okay? Android are you okay? Are you okay, Android?

Backrooms and Exit 8 make the perfect double feature for videogame-adjacent horror movies
By Christopher Livingston published
No Way Out Quiet. Tense. Creepy. And not overstuffed with lore or exposition.

Playing 007 First Light? Send us gameplay videos galore and you could win a $500 Amazon gift card
By Christopher Livingston published
👀7️ Your best clip could win big.

No Man's Sky now has its own Death Star with a laser so big it can 'destroy space station sized objects'
By Christopher Livingston published
News Look at the size of that thing!

The sequel to one of my favorite survival games doesn't just respawn you back at home when you die: that'd be way too easy
By Christopher Livingston published
Hard Times Outward 2 doesn't pull any punches, and that's just what I was hoping for.

Great moments in PC gaming: Stealing and selling someone else's treasure in Sea of Thieves
By Christopher Livingston published
Booty It's what the pirate life is all about.

As a former smoker, I'm asking gamedevs to please make an 'arachnophobia mode' but for cigarettes because I am barely hanging on here
By Christopher Livingston published
No Butts Add a toggle that replaces them with lollipops, or kazoos, or pretzel sticks, or something?

Now that Subnautica 2 is out, the most wishlisted game on Steam is… a game that's been out for almost 2 years?
By Christopher Livingston published
News It's Schrödinger's game: it is both unreleased and yet one of the most popular games on Steam.

Survival RPG Outward 2 will run just fine on 'potato' settings, and as proof, here's testimony from an actual potato
By Christopher Livingston published
News The survival RPG sequel is coming to early access in July.

This Subnautica 2 mod lets you kill all the fish you want
By Christopher Livingston published
News You've nibbled me for the last time, Nibbler Mango.

Subnautica 2 console commands: turn on god mode, unlock all blueprints, craft without resources, and change your FOV
By Christopher Livingston published
Power Modders have already unlocked Subnautica 2's debug console to allow you to use cheats and spawn resources using item ID codes.

How Subnautica 2 multiplayer works
By Christopher Livingston published
Dive In Co-op features are a bit lacking, but hopefully that will change in early access.

The best Subnautica 2 base locations
By Christopher Livingston published
Base Ace Where to build your undersea HQ.

16 years after attending a Fallout: New Vegas launch event, Aaron Paul gets cast in Fallout Season 3
By Christopher Livingston published
News He played the long game.

True permadeath: You can never play this game again if you let its immortal snail assassin touch your mouse pointer
By Christopher Livingston published
News The meme where a killer snail slowly but relentlessly pursues you is coming to your desktop.

Mortal Kombat 2 movie reviews are in, and it's being called everything from 'enjoyably violent' to 'depressingly rizzless'
By Christopher Livingston published
News The sequel to 2021's Mortal Kombat movie tests its might against film critics.

'The team has weathered a lot': Subnautica 2 design lead says the community kept the dev team going 'when it was at its hardest'
By Christopher Livingston published
News "Despite any rough patches, our goal has always remained the same," said Anthony Gallegos.

Plants vs. Zombies review: 'I stop playing Plants vs. Zombies when someone makes me'
By Tom Francis published
Grower When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will stroll the lawn.

Robot Watch: The weirdest and wildest things bots did this month including self destructing, playing ping pong, and pooping NFTs
By Christopher Livingston published
roboflop Robots may someday dominate our world. Let's keep an eye on them.

This mod brings concussions back into Madden 26, including symptoms like blurred vision, dizziness, and slower reaction times
By Christopher Livingston published
News The mod was created by the Derek Sheely Foundation to bring more awareness to the dangers and warning signs of traumatic head injuries.

Windrose devs don't have any progress wipes planned for early access, but 'of course s**t happens'
By Christopher Livingston published
News Kraken Express will "do our best" to let players keep their progress "intact all the way to 1.0 release."

'Please have faith in us once again' says Windrose dev, revealing its first big content update won't arrive for 'at least 6 months'
By Christopher Livingston published
News "All the new content and features we want to deliver takes time," says developer Kraken Express.

'Eventually the slop will just fall to the bottom': Garry's Mod sequel launches to 'mixed' reviews, but Garry himself isn't worried about AI games on the main page
By Rich Stanton published
News "Low quality, obvious AI-created slop is going to be a growing problem in every creative outlet."
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