Latest articles by Ted Litchfield
The first true 1:1 test we have shows Steam OS getting better performance than Windows in 10 big games, tying in 2 more, and it's got me salivating for a desktop version of Valve's OS
news Liberate me from this prison.
Despite always preferring turn-based combat in RPGs, Pillars of Eternity designer Josh Sawyer thinks a lack of experience and opportunity meant the studio couldn't pull off a similar swing to Larian taking Baldur's Gate turn-based
"I guess we did South Park, but other than that, we hadn't done turn-based ever, really."
New Vegas lead Josh Sawyer thinks turn-based combat fell off in the 2000s due to a lack of 'tactical variation': Even Fallout 1 would 'get to the point where you're always doing nut shots and eye shots'
news Real time with pause won the 2000s, but turn-based won the war.
I screwed up Karlach's ending in Baldur's Gate 3: I thought I'd picked her best outcome but her actor says 'not very much' of her is actually left
News Honestly it was impossible for me to know it was a bad idea.
System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remastered is a light touch remaster, but it's the best way to play the imsim classic
Shockingly Good The way you should play System Shock 2.
Larian jumped to improve Karlach's ending in Baldur's Gate 3 right away, with voice actor Samantha Béart saying it was nigh-on immediate: 'As soon as it was out, I got a call'
News "People were still in the character creator."
Karlach's actor knows about the 3,138 'filthy' Baldur's Gate 3 stories you've written on fanfic sites and still sends all their love to fans for changing their life: 'I don't read it, but I am aware'
News The fandom has Tiefling fever.
Death Stranding 2 launch times and release date
strand game The second Strand-type game.
One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons
news TommyB made instructions, firmware, and components all readily available if you want to try this yourself.
Sega just accidentally leaked its own sales numbers, and somehow Sonic Frontiers sold more than the last two mainline Yakuzas combined, but Persona 5's putting the rest of the stable to shame
news Blue Blur somehow still raking in the dough.
Elden Ring Nightreign modders are already going ham with custom skins, including Optimus Prime, Stellar Blade's Eve, and my #1 most-wanted outfit from Dark Souls
news My people yearn for Sir Alonne.
A criminally underrated action game with a soundtrack I'm still listening to 9 years later is on sale for just 2 bucks on Steam, and I already bought it again
news God, I should replay Furi.
Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor Samantha Béart was initially turned down for roles like 'Goblin 49,' but 2 years later they were hired 'within a day' of their audition as 'the muscle mummy we know and love'
heating up Béart also had a day job as an IT consultant during the long recording process.
This 'tediously accurate' map of our solar system with the moon scaled to a single pixel would still take 665 monitors laid end-to-end to show all at once
news We all know that space is mostly just space, but do we really feel it in our guts?
Pentiment and Fallout: New Vegas designer Josh Sawyer isn't usually a fan of RPG romances, but thinks Cyberpunk 2077 nailed it: 'If I were gonna base romances on anything, I'd probably do something like that'
looking for love "They have their own lives, but you keep coming back together to continue that storyline."
I didn't realize how much Elden Ring Nightreign upgraded its Dark Souls skins until I saw them side-by-side with the originals
news These assets have gotten some love.
Somebody actually bought that $3,000 Steam Deck prototype off eBay, then they let a YouTuber crack it open to see what's inside
news I'm glad that Valve iterated beyond this.
Dark Souls narrator and prolific actor Pik-Sen Lim has died
news Lim's career spanned decades, and included our first impression of FromSoftware's foundational series.
The Outer Worlds 2 director offers the most sympathetic answer I've yet heard for the $80 game question: 'We don't set the prices for our games,' and 'You'd have to honestly talk to the Xbox folks'
news Fair enough.
After 5 years in early access, I didn't think hardcore FPS Ultrakill could surprise me more—but my jaw nearly hit the floor on seeing an upcoming levels
PCGS 2025 The layer may be called "Fraud," but Ultrakill is legit.
Pigface is a gnarly neo-noir FPS with freeform assassination missions and a demo that just dropped on Steam
PCGS 2025 Who you callin' Pigface?
I'm obsessed with goblinAmerica, an FPS where you play the goblin president crouch sliding through a psychedelic dream world
PCGS 2025 Goblin president has my vote every time.
The remaster of classic D&D RPG Neverwinter Nights 2 is finally real, and releasing next month
news I've been waiting for Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition for a long, long time.
