
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

Which version of Nicolas Cage will we get in the Madden movie? Boy, I hope it's the unhinged one
By Christopher Livingston published
Uncaged Throw in hothead Christian Bale and controversial director David O. Russell, and we'll hopefully see some fireworks in the Madden biopic.

Don't worry, they're not just adapting blockbusters: this trippy Japanese walking simulator you can get for $4 on Steam has been made into a movie, too
By Christopher Livingston published
News The Exit 8 is a short backrooms-style game from 2023, and it's already gotten the movie treatment.

This hardcore driving sim about rebuilding towns after natural disasters is, surprisingly, a super-chill hangout game for up to 4 friends
By Christopher Livingston published
DIG IN There's a lot of work to do, but RoadCraft never feels like a stick-in-the-mud.

Dune: Awakening beta players extracted nearly 9 million liters of blood last weekend, enough to fill 3 Olympic-size, extremely gross swimming pools
By Christopher Livingston published
News Meanwhile, 107,000 players ed through Shai-Hulud's digestive system.

Today's Wordle is the 5th toughest ever, ending streaks for 50% of players
By Christopher Livingston published
News It took pretty much everyone at PC Gamer all of our guesses to get it.

These 5 roguelike deckbuilders caught my eye because they have big twists on the usual formula
By Christopher Livingston published
cardplay It's a golden age for creative deckbuilders.

Ubisoft's extreme sports game is being turned into a movie… and honestly, I'd watch 90 minutes of people doing snowboard stunts and wingsuit flights in the Alps
By Christopher Livingston published
The Riders Republic movie will feature "spectacular stunts on the snowy slopes of the Alps," says Ubisoft.

This looks fungi: a first-person roguelike 'double deckbuilder' where you use a separate deck for exploring, smash locked doors open with your head, and feast on the corpses of mushroom monsters
By Christopher Livingston published
News A demo for Shroom and Gloom is available on Steam now.

A Minecraft Movie is out on digital so now your kid can throw popcorn around the living room instead of the theater when the chicken jockey shows up
By Christopher Livingston published
News You can now rent the blockbuster (haha, blocks, get it) on Prime Video or Apple TV.

'Too many games let their players succeed' says developer of notoriously tough survival RPG Kenshi, and 'that's mind-numbingly boring to me'
By Christopher Livingston published
News "A writer's job is to torment their protagonist," says Chris Hunt of Lo-Fi Games. "So I just adapted that."

Dune: Awakening's stabby stunlock PvP exploit is being fixed, says Funcom: 'We've got this covered'
By Christopher Livingston published
News Being endlessly staggered by a human opponent isn't a heck of a lot of fun.

'We heard your ': Funcom just reversed course and opened up the Dune: Awakening beta weekend to anyone who preorders the survival MMO
By Christopher Livingston published
News Seems like that should have been the plan from the beginning?

Bodega cats, trash pandas, and a great white shark: the real stars of the GTA 6 reveal are all the animals hiding in plain sight
By Christopher Livingston published
Iguana Play Forget the cars, cash, and criminals: I want to go on a wilderness walk.

The Dune: Awakening team is confident servers won't implode at launch: 'This is not our first rodeo'
By Christopher Livingston published
News "Rest assured, there will be thousands of servers grouped together in hundreds of Worlds available at launch," Funcom said.

Calling all cozy mystery fans: the follow-up to 2022's best puzzle game gives you even more ways to play detective
By Christopher Livingston published
New Clue Strange Antiquities, the sequel to botany shop puzzler Strange Horticulture, gives you new ways to solve all its perplexing little mysteries.

The GTA 6 trailer shows Jason and Lucia working out: is Rockstar bringing back some of San Andreas' RPG-lite features?
By Christopher Livingston published
Slim Gym Jason lifts weights, Lucia works a heavy bag… are these just cutscenes or will exercise improve our stats?

Squid Game Season 3 teaser respawns Player 456 in the lobby for one more round
By Christopher Livingston published
News Netflix's most popular show gives us a glimpse of its endgame coming this June.

The best Steam Deck games
By Wes Fenlon last updated
Steam On The games everyone should have installed on Valve's gaming handheld.

The best Oblivion Remastered mods
By Christopher Livingston published
mod squad Improved performance, better visuals, and gameplay tweaks can be yours for the remastered classic RPG.

Todd Howard is hiding in Oblivion Remastered, and you can find him and make him fall in love with you
By Christopher Livingston published
News "Oh no! What do we do? I'm so scared!" 🥺👉👈

Wagon is a 1-bit card-based spiritual successor to survival classic The Oregon Trail, and wastes no time getting right into the cannibalism
By Christopher Livingston published
News Dysentery is the least of your worries.

Oblivion Remastered looks so good that I can't believe I'm saying this: I kinda hope Bethesda remasters Skyrim (again) too
By Christopher Livingston published
Alteration I wouldn't have said this a week ago, but in the wake of Oblivion's shiny new facelift, Skyrim suddenly feels pretty drab.

Getting around in Dune: Awakening is a blast thanks to grappling hooks, suspensors, and the ability to climb literally anything
By Christopher Livingston published
Sky's the limit Who even needs an ornithopter?
The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.