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
18 times the Fallout show was exactly like a videogame
By Tyler Wilde published
game logic The show takes a hilariously literal approach to adapting the Fallout games.
The best GTA 5 mods
By Christopher Livingston, Joe Donnelly, Rick Lane, Heather Newman last updated
New and updated! Our favourite tweaks include forests in San Andreas and more than 50 new heists.
What we want to see in Fallout season 2: Deathclaw fights, aliens and a lot more Norm
By Fraser Brown published
Back to the Wasteland Our hopes and dreams for the second season.
The 17 best cozy games on PC that aren't farm sims
By Lauren Morton last updated
Cozy Games If you need more chill in your game library, these are the best cozy games you can play on PC.
Don't sleep on this gorgeous fantasy city builder launching next month
By Christopher Livingston published
news Fabledom lets you build and manage a fairytale town and woo princes and princesses from other realms.
Yes, I'm abducting my neighbors and sawing them up in a series of ritual murders, but I have a really good reason you guys
By Christopher Livingston published
spy vs guy Life Eater is a 'horror fantasy kidnapping simulator' and several of those words should trouble you.
Todd Howard confirms the Fallout show didn't retcon non-Bethesda Fallout games: 'Everything that happened in the previous games, including New Vegas, happened'
By Christopher Livingston published
News And an important date related to Shady Sands happens "after the events of New Vegas," he said.
Fallout 4 isn't the best Fallout game, but it's the best one to play today
By Christopher Livingston published
VATS entertainment After watching Prime TV's Fallout show you may be in the mood to play a Fallout game. Here's why that game should be Fallout 4.
I swore I wouldn't use child labor in Frostpunk 2… but then the kids went feral, formed gangs, and started having deadly knife fights in the streets
By Christopher Livingston published
Child Slay Kids stab the darndest things.
In this strategy city builder you'll grow your capital through 2,500 years of history
By Christopher Livingston published
News Survive from ancient times to the Age of Enlightenment in city builder Memoriapolis.
Bethesda design director confirms Fallout: New Vegas is still canon: 'Of course it is'
By Christopher Livingston published
News "We've never suggested otherwise," says Emil Pagliarulo, lead designer and writer of Fallout 3 and 4.
Fallout's Vaults, ranked from worst to best
By Christopher Livingston published
gimme shelter From white noise experiments to psychoactive drugs, from virtual reality to human cloning gone Gary.
In which I (mostly) debunk the latest Fallout controversy that claims Todd Howard used the Fallout show to 'retcon' non-Bethesda Fallout games
By Christopher Livingston published
Lore Never Changes Some Fallout fans are concerned that the show 'retcons' Fallouts 1, 2, and New Vegas from Fallout history.
7 big ways the Fallout show adds new lore to the Fallout universe
By Christopher Livingston published
Vault Specs Spoiler alert: the show has some pretty huge implications for Fallout, both past and future.
I called the Vault-Tec phone number from the Fallout show so you don't have to
By Christopher Livingston published
News I was expecting a Fallout easter egg, or maybe the beginning of a Fallout ARG… I was wrong.
Just like the games, the Fallout show works best when it ignores the main quest and gets sidetracked
By Christopher Livingston published
Wander Woman In true Bethesda RPG tradition, veering away from the main objective is what's most rewarding.
Reminder: There's already a Fallout TV series you can watch now for free, and it's pretty darn good
By Christopher Livingston published
Nuka Break Fallout: Nuka Break is a fan-made web series from 2011, and it's an impressive accomplishment.
Starfield mod expands the base-building system with 40 new farmable plants, massive bio-domes, and your very own Chunks franchise that earns passive income
By Christopher Livingston published
News Get more out of Starfield's planetary bases. A lot more.
How to watch the first episode of Fallout without an Amazon Prime subscription
By Christopher Livingston published
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
By Christopher Livingston published
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
By Christopher Livingston published
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'
By Christopher Livingston published
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
By Christopher Livingston published
Stacked Grab your hammers and get ready to build.