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. You can follow Ted on Bluesky.
Latest articles by Ted Litchfield

After seeing Thief Remastered, I'm calling it: That doomed Deux Ex remaster should get rebooted with Nightdive in charge
By Ted Litchfield published
revision It just makes sense.

Summer Game Fest no-shows: The big games that were absent from 2026's showcases
By Harvey Randall, Jody Macgregor, Ted Litchfield, Rory Norris published
NO SHOWS Who's out for Summer? Who's out forever?

Update: Bandai Namco confirms Elden Ring's new classes and gear update is paid DLC
By Ted Litchfield last updated
news I guess it also comes with a Switch 2 version.

Mina the Hollower has the best sidequests of any game in 2026
By Ted Litchfield published
RPGs take note These quests are anything but hollow.

Star Wars Zero Company, the tactics game from veteran XCOM devs, confirms August launch and Anakin Skywalker cameo
By Ted Litchfield published
news Star Wars' new strategy game is looking like a winner.

Shadow of the Colossus and Ico creator Fumito Ueda's next game will let us pilot a giant robot head to take over mech bodies
By Ted Litchfield published
news I'm down for desolate, colossal robots.

As a fan of Lunacid and Bloodborne, I immediately fell in love with this first-person bugborne that cribs the best quick melee in PC gaming
By Ted Litchfield published
news In Hark the Ghoul, you're just a stinky undead bug doing its best.

One mad lad has spent the past 3 years remixing hundreds of classic metal songs in the Doom midi soundfont
By Ted Litchfield published
news Hell yeah dude.

I thought I was over 2.5D, but make it look like Marvel vs. Capcom plus Berserk and I'm back, baby
By Ted Litchfield published
Reject chunky pixels, embrace fluid animation.

The follow-up to one of my favorite RPGs of the 2020s finally has a demo, and it does not disappoint: Bat people, a mushroom hellscape, and funky JRPG combat from bizarro world 2005
By Ted Litchfield published
news Embracing Entropy.

In 1997, Warren Spector told us the upcoming PC classic Deus Ex was inspired by Final Fantasy, Miyamoto, and 'the console guys'
By Ted Litchfield published
news Before it was a classic.

Call of Duty yet again promises 'no clowny skins' for Modern Warfare 4, but we've been burned before
By Ted Litchfield published
news Pinky promise. For realsies this time.

Steam reviewer says 'I am done with this game' after 10,000 hours of Destiny 2, then plays another 160 hours just to be sure
By Ted Litchfield published
news Honestly, same.

Before Mina the Hollower, Yacht Club paused a 3D Shovel Knight game that's 'not far from being showable' and a possible next project
By Ted Litchfield published
news Shovel Knight 64. Shovel Knight Solid.

Mass Effect and Metal Gear actor Jennifer Hale calls on studios to take responsibility for their AI use: 'Ain't nobody making you do it'
By Ted Litchfield published
news "The tool does what the human holding the tool tells it to."

Backrooms to triple previous A24 opening weekend record at $85+ million
By Ted Litchfield published
news Maybe Michael Bay shouldn't have nuked the Skibidi Toilet movie after all.

Traffic to DuckDuckGo's proudly 'No AI' search page has tripled since latest Google AI search update
By Ted Litchfield published
news

Balatro publisher Playstack only discovered it because they had a guy checking all the new releases on Steam every day: 'I saw the game the day it went up on Steam'
By Ted Litchfield published
news "I went to Twitter at the time and contacted LocalThunk. I think he had maybe two or three followers."

An EVE newbie got an impossibly rare $7,000 ship out of a free loot box, leaving him set for life in the space MMO: 'Everyone gets this for free, right?'
By Ted Litchfield published
rare drop "I guess I’ve always been a lucky person."

Peak's success helped Aggro Crab commit to co-op, says studio head: 'We thought we were a character action studio'
By Justin Wagner published
News Peak was "kind of a side hustle" at first.

Deus Ex, Marathon actor Elias Toufexis doesn't get why people root for games to fail: 'Life is so short, man'
By Justin Wagner published
News "Just stop tweeting memes under things for six hours."

Epic reveals first Unreal Engine 6 game, and it's not Fortnite
By Ted Litchfield published
news It's Rocket League?

Peak boss doesn't mind us calling it friendslop: 'Why not make a game where the point is to hang out with your friends?'
By Justin Wagner published
News "What's more beautiful than that?"
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