Ted Litchfield
Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister's copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer. He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent, but has also covered esports, modding, and rare game collecting. When he's not playing or writing about games, you can find Ted lifting weights on his back porch.
Latest articles by Ted Litchfield

BioShock maestro Ken Levine says Judas will double down on reacting to player choices because it's the future of games: 'I've never been a big fan of cutscenes because they're not interactive'
By Ted Litchfield published
news You know what? Sounds good to me.

OG Fallout lead Tim Cain dusts off a trove of old development photos dating back to 1994 to show 'what development looked like in the '90s'
By Ted Litchfield published
news We've got team photos, candids, and even the physical 3D models used to make Fallout's "talking heads."

It sounds like we'll have to wait even longer to find out what the deal is with OD, Hideo Kojima and Jordan Peele's game, movie, and 'new form of media' that had the trailer with all the faces cryptically talking at us
By Ted Litchfield published
news I'd be bummed if I knew what I was supposed to be bummed about.

I've seen enough: No more forcing singleplayer studios to make mediocre live service games
By Ted Litchfield published
cut it out We're leaving this one behind in 2024.

After losing his father to cancer, mega streamer Shroud is running a January 'Fragathon' where he'll donate to cancer research for each in-game kill
By Ted Litchfield published
news K/D ratio for a cause.

Meta wants AI characters to fill up Facebook and Instagram 'kind of in the same way accounts do,' but also had to delete a humiliating first run of its official bots
By Ted Litchfield published
news I'm all smiles over here.

Minecraft creator Notch says that he 'basically announced minecraft 2' with a Twitter poll and a commitment to making a spiritual successor
By Ted Litchfield published
news You can kind of just say anything on there now.

6 games that could be bigger hits than you're expecting in 2025
By Tyler Wilde published
sleeper hits We were hyped for Helldivers 2 before it became a bestseller, now here are our predictions for 2025's sleeper hits.

Floridians appear to be frantically Google searching for VPNs in the wake of the state's invasive porn ban
By Ted Litchfield published
news Understandable. But also kinda funny.

8 bold gaming predictions for 2025
By Tyler Wilde published
🔮 What does the new year have in store for videogames?

With the next Elder Scrolls and Fallout games still years away, here are 6 upcoming total conversion mods for Skyrim and Fallout 4 to get excited about
By Ted Litchfield published
DIY RPG Getting creative with the most ambitious Skyrim and Fallout 4 mods.

Amid a tidal wave of new games in 2024, these 10 must-play deep cuts are cheap and will run on almost anything
By Ted Litchfield published
backlogged They're worth your time and (relatively little) money.

Best Expansion 2024: Elden Ring – Shadow of the Erdtree
By Tyler Colp published
🏆 FromSoft does it again.

I'm still reeling from the knowledge that the Windows 10 desktop background is a real photo and not CGI
By Ted Litchfield published
news I'm just used to everything being fake.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is my third-favorite game of the year, and I don't care who knows
By Ted Litchfield published
🏆 The Veilguard is embattled, a little funky, and a damn good action-RPG.

Best FPS 2024: STRAFTAT
By Jake Tucker published
🏆 Our favourite shooter of the year was look all the best custom lobbies rolled into one.

The best heavyweight boxer in the world dressed like Hitman's Agent 47 to clown on his opponent in a pre-fight press conference
By Ted Litchfield published
news Honestly? It was a great bit.

Witcher author reveals that Geralt is 61 years old in The Witcher 3, with even weirder ramifications for Henry Cavill's Netflix performance
By Ted Litchfield published
news The most utterly ripped near-retiree in the history of fiction.

BioWare considered bringing the hero of Dragon Age: Origins back for Veilguard, but with a horrifying catch: 'Do not let her see me like this'
By Ted Litchfield published
news BioWare loves doing horrible things to old Dragon Age protagonists.

CD Projekt had to nerf Ciri for The Witcher 4 after she fully unlocked her spacetime teleportation powers in the previous game: 'Something totally happened in-between'
By Ted Litchfield published
news She did seem a bit OP by the end there.

My worst fears of a PlayStation-exclusive future for FromSoftware have been averted for now: Sony is forming a 'strategic alliance' with parent company Kadokawa, but hasn't bought it outright
By Ted Litchfield published
news Sony is now Kadokawa's largest shareholder at 10%.

CD Projekt knows why we're all really here: Gwent is coming back in The Witcher 4, and the devs 'don't think anyone will be disappointed'
By Ted Litchfield published
news I'm in the mood for some diversion. A game of Gwent would be best.

'I've spent my entire career trying to recreate the feeling I had when I played D&D for the first time,' says immersive sim godfather Warren Spector, with new game Thick as Thieves going multiplayer because 'you don't play D&D alone'
By Ted Litchfield published
news Spector described wanting to push the genre in new and interesting directions.
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