Latest articles by Ted Litchfield
Hero modder restores the coolest bit of Elden Ring cut content: The heartbreaking tragedy of the second guy you meet that actually kinda justifies the game's most evil ending
news Punished "Venom" Kalé.
These are my 20 RPG freak pick must-plays for $10 or less in the Steam Spring Sale
arr pee gee Sicko central.
The sequel to the most underrated RPG of 2022 is launching in early access next month, but you can try its massive updated demo right now
I've been waiting for Moves of the Diamond Hand for a long time.
'No matter what we changed, somebody was going to get mad:' After hearing what an Obsidian dev went through to get RPG difficulty right, I get why nobody's ever gotten RPG difficulty right
news There may not be an RPG with a proper difficulty curve.
Valve quickly updates its own Steam Machine update, recommitting to a 2026 launch despite AI woes: 'Nothing's really changed on our end'
news A recent blog post from Valve made it sound like the launch could slip into 2027.
Please send help: We can't stop opening packs in Wikigacha, a browser-based card game where you collect Wikipedia articles like 'List of Red Hot Chili Peppers band members' or 'Bariatric Surgery'
news Whoah, a Methuselah rookie card!
Esoteric Ebb isn't just the best Disco since Disco, it's the closest anyone's come to the magic of tabletop D&D in a videogame
ebb and flow Maybe the best RPG of 2026?
The creators of Rain World were tired of making something so depressing, so their next game is a 'loud and dumb and fast' cyberpunk racer you can try in the Steam Next Fest
news It's like if F-Zero broke up the races so you could have Smash Bros. brawls.
There's still no word on a Nier 3, but series mastermind Yoko Taro is writing a new Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series
news Couldn't have picked a better guy for the job.
The upcoming Disco Elysium for D&D nerds just dropped a 90-minute supercut of its weirdly beautiful soundtrack
news Esoteric beats to role/play to.
'It’s pretty sad and pathetic that a game with difficult content can’t get on the larger marketplaces:' Despite creeping censorship on Steam and Epic, these devs are fighting to make a transgressive stop-motion horror game
news It's a tough time for weird horror, but Talha and Jack Co won't stop.
High flying FPS Ultrakill will finally reach the 8th layer of Hell next week: 'Skip school. Call out sick from work. It's finally happening. And we're not lying'
news Honest advertising for Fraud.
Avowed was always great, but now that it costs what it should have at launch and nobody's being weird about it online, it's kinda perfect
Wowed A permanent $20 price cut may be the most transformative patch of all.
'Art and science and procreation, that's about all life is good for:' Two former freeware developers are still trying to keep it weird in an era when companies 'sell games to people in 5-second clips'
news "These money people need numbers to know they will make their money back, which kind of conflicts with the nature of experimentation and trying to push the boundaries of the medium."
XCOM designer Jake Solomon announces surprise closure of his studio alongside a first look at its canceled life sim, 'the game we poured our hearts into'
news "Burbank" was set to be a life sim with dramatic storylines.
The modder who saved Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 1 has been showing off a treasure trove of material from the canceled version of Bloodlines 2
news I don't know if anyone on this earth loves VtMB as much as Wesp5.
Hideki Sato, father of the Sega Dreamcast, Saturn, Genesis, and more, has died
news Sato's career in games began in the 1970s.
'We lost things such as physics in games:' The dev behind my most anticipated RPG thinks players are craving more interactive games, not just 'moving around in a static 3D environment'
news Well, I am, anyway.
The dev behind my top upcoming RPG is a Hungarian chef who thought 'if not now, then when?' and learned coding from scratch to make his dream 'eurojank' masterpiece
euro vision "People have been craving this sort of experience, which was offered by Larian and CD Projekt."
It turns out Saber's John Wick game is coming to PC at the same time as PlayStation
news Well that's a pleasant surprise.
Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii has played 10,000 hours of Fallout 4 while refusing to do the main quest, build settlements, or travel with anyone but Dogmeat: 'I'd much rather be beaten to death by Deathclaws'
news The only guy playing Fallout 4 the right way.
One of the most underrated indie duos out there is making its 3rd game in as many years: An 'extreme stop motion horror' project that promises to be 'grossly fun but also stomach-churningly appalling'
news Made almost entirely out of clay.
'They have effectively ghosted us:' publisher of delisted art game Horses lambasts Epic Games Store after executive claims 'we love that studio'
news Quit horsing around.
