Latest articles by Christopher Livingston
All the movies and TV shows based on videogames coming in 2024
watch party Fallout, Borderlands, Tomb Raider, Halo, an Ark cartoon, and Sonic (times two) will hit screens big and small this year.
I played 20 city builders in 2023, and these are the 4 I loved most
Public works If you're looking for new city builders, start right here.
45 things that made us say 'holy sh*t!' in 2023
#$@&%*! Baldur's Gate, The Day Before, AI, toads, Greek strongmen, and a bunch of other stuff that surprised over the past year.
Survival colony sim Stranded: Alien Dawn has all the personal drama of The Sims, plus robots, mechs, and giant bug invasions
Take some colony building, throw in some tower defense, and add in a bunch of people who just don't get along.
Best Design 2023: Dave the Diver
The Gotys An absurd chocolate box of systems—it shouldn't work, but in Dave the Diver it does.
6 game genre trends that we think are going to define 2024
Genre Defining The landscapes of FPSes and RPGs and city builders are all right at the edge of some big changes.
Best Open World 2023: Tchia
The Gotys Thanks to its fresh spin on the genre, this tropical adventure was our favourite open world game of the year.
The free demo for this awesome poker-based roguelike is closing in January, and I legit don't know how I'll cope
News Balatro's demo will close on January 1, meaning I'll need to find a new obsession until it returns.
Starfield promises 'new survival mechanics' in 2024
news A year-end post from Bethesda promises interesting yet vaguely described changes coming to the space RPG.
Co-op survival games are great, but don't forget the intense joys of surviving solo
1UP I love crafting, hunting, and exploring with friends, but there's really nothing like going it alone.
Starfield's biggest issues can't be solved with patches, mods, or expansions
Fading Signal It's a good game, but I'm not sure even a major Cyberpunk 2077-style overhaul can make it an RPG for the ages.
The best Lethal Company mods
Toolkit of terror Make the horror more horrifying in the hilarious co-op game.
DayZ and Icarus team up with a cheeky 'The Day After' survival Steam sale bundle
news The Day Before folded just days after its launch, but you can grab two much better survival games that keep on surviving for 33% off.
How DayZ spawned a new genre: the unfinished survival game
roadmaps Steam Early Access led to new solutions, and lots of new problems, for both developers and players of survival games.
Our 5 least likely predictions for GTA 6
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE What do you think, will that alligator be playable?
The 7 most exciting PC games revealed at The Game Awards
Hyped Another ultra-ambitious project from the No Man's Sky studio, an Arkane Blade game, and five other Game Awards trailers you should watch.
For a cute and cheery little survival game, Lego Fortnite goes pretty hard
Thwart Night I had a fun yet punishing first few days, and I now owe my life to a Lego catgirl.
Walton Goggins on the Fallout show's three main characters as 'avatars' for players: 'It's almost like three different religions'
News "If you think about it, if you put the three together, that's a great theology, man," Goggins said at a panel before The Game Awards.
This great settlement-building survival RPG just became a 4-player co-op game
news Years after launch Medieval Dynasty continues to add new features, and this time it's a multiplayer mode.
Exploring the seas on a magic surfboard looks awesome in this 16-player co-op survival game from former Riot devs
news Teased last summer as Codename: Islands, the open world survivalcraft adventure is now called Voyagers of Nera and has a trailer.
GTA 6 trailer smashes a YouTube viewership record—but still can't compare with another three-letter acronym
news You think you like GTA 6? Wait till you see people like BTS.
6 burning questions we have after seeing the GTA 6 trailer
🤔 How does social media work? Will GTA 5's bullet time return? And how big is that gosh darn map?
