Ted Litchfield

Ted Litchfield

Associate Editor

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

Man in headband and white tank making heart gesture with chess pawn in the middle.
Chess is immediately more fun if you jettison most of the rules and replace them with weapons-grade Game Boy Advance

By Ted Litchfield Published

king me "Pawn Chess" is whatever you want it to be in Rulehouse.

king me
AMD's CEO Lisa Su at CES 2020
AMD CEO Lisa Su: 'We are a data center-first company'

By Ted Litchfield Published

news Congratulations.

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Left: Image of shopkeeper in Queen's Domain. Right: Image of Samus from Metroid prime.
Queen's Domain might be the best game like Metroid Prime since Metroid Prime

By Ted Litchfield Published

Queenly Immediate must-buy.

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Queenly
Key art of Garrett from Thief: The Dark Project Remastered.
Thief Remastered's new expansion is being made by the legendary Black Parade mod team, and it's out next month

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news It's a big day for PC gaming old heads.

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Garrett from Thief climbing the side of a building, city visible in background and stained glass window in foreground.
Nightdive is reviving the iconic trapezoid big box for Thief: Remastered's special edition… but only on console

By Ted Litchfield Published

news The injustice of it all.

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Two Fallout Securitrons standing before the entrance of the New Vegas Strip.
Obsidian's Josh Sawyer on RPG cities: 'Compared to a dungeon, generally speaking, a town is 4x the expense per square foot'

By Ted Litchfield Published

news It's these freaking zoning laws, man.

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Wheatley, a spherical AI core from Portal 2
Valve's long-lost prototype Portal prequel appears online after nearly 20 years

By Ted Litchfield Published

news F-Stop was a result of a post-Orange Box, 2007 Valve game jam.

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Solaire lying on the ground very sad
FromSoftware temporarily shuts down Dark Souls 2 and 3 multiplayer over 'server issue'

By Ted Litchfield Published

news The reason and timeline for restoration were not disclosed.

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Medic from TF2 facepalms at a computer.
Fanfiction Library of Alexandria AO3 down for up to a month following hack

By Ted Litchfield Published

news Just uncalled-for.

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Skyblivion
Elder Scrolls Skyblivion mod faces lawsuit from former volunteer, project lead urges 'Please don't turn this into any kind of witch hunt'

By Ted Litchfield Published

news The volunteer team is seeking pro bono legal aid.

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Final Fantasy XIV: Evercold - An Au-Ra with dark blue horns and one eye standing in the snow
Final Fantasy 14: Evercold delayed to February, preorders start next week

By Ted Litchfield Published

news Surely, one of these is the actual, no joke, FINAL fantasy?

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Left: Oni demon from Labyrinth of the Demon King. Middle: Cultist from Felvidek. Right: Peasants from Skald.
The top 10 scariest RPGs I've ever played⁠—and one I'm too afraid to try

By Ted Litchfield Published

spooky stuff Number 6 will SPOOK you (for 1d6 psychic damage).

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spooky stuff
John Romero and Brenda Romero Audi Arrival, British Academy Games Awards.Venue: Tobacco Dock, London.Date: 6 April 2017.Host: Danny Wallace .-.Area: Audi Arrivals
Romero Games has a new publisher for the game Xbox abandoned, but its 110-person team is now just 16 devs: 'I needed to basically design a new game that could use as much of that stuff as possible'

By Ted Litchfield Published

news Champions adjust.

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EA reportedly canned BioWare and Mass Effect 5 to make a new Star Wars: Battlefront instead

By Ted Litchfield Published

news One last bitter drop in a chalice of sorrow.

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news
Left: Sarevok from Baldur's Gate. Right: peasants from Skald
The developer of one of my favorite 2020s RPGs does it because of BioWare: 'Baldur's Gate 1 is the first game I truly loved'

By Ted Litchfield Published

news It's a hard one to beat.

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Left: main character from Journey. Right: Commander Shepard looking sad.
Veteran game composer in talks to score Mass Effect 5 shares 20 minutes of music he wrote for the project: 'To even dream in your sandbox was a privilege'

By Ted Litchfield Published

news We're so back / It's so over / We were so robbed.

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Mass Effect 5 hero guy
Mass Effect fan group buys billboard in Times Square promoting petition to save series

By Ted Litchfield Published

news If you can make it in New York, well, baby you can make it anywhere.

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Commander Shepard actors Jennifer Hale & Mark Meer mourn BioWare: 'It was in the hands of ownership that may not have understood what BioWare fully is''

By Ted Litchfield Published

news You can say that again.

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Left: Concept art of Morrigan from Dragon Age. Right: Key art of The Cleric from Esoteric Ebb resting on a bed of apples
The creator of our running RPG of the year weighs in on BioWare's closure: 'They were fundamental to the genre'

By Ted Litchfield Published

news Don't cry because it's over.

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Dark Souls 2 Seamless Co-op is the chillest way to play FromSoft's most frustrating game

By Ted Litchfield Published

Jolly co-op Don't give up, skeleton(s).

Jolly co-op
'This is the bit where the comet hits the earth and the dinosaurs die:' Tim Sweeney revisits scathing 26-year-old eulogy for beloved studio Looking Glass

By Ted Litchfield Published

news Sweeney's assessment of the games industry in the 2000s hits close to home today, but I still hold out hope that the future can be better.

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Top Xbox exec promoted in brand 'reset' leaves after 3 months in role

By Ted Litchfield Published

news Is that good?

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Penguin Colony key art showing three figures in stylized fashion on purple background
Penguin Colony review: A daringly weird horror game whose atmosphere and surprises overcome its rough edges

By Ted Litchfield Published

chilly Something ancient and horrible stirs in the farthest south: Are you bad enough penguin to… not really do much about it?

chilly
Upcoming Mass Effect-like Exodus himbo-fies protagonist after fans complain about his face

By Ted Litchfield Published

news He's been looksmaxxing. He got the Chad surgery.

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news
Dragon Age 2 Corypheus looking all mad and stuff at the camera
It was nuts that BioWare based Dragon Age: Inquisition's story on a DLC nobody played, but that DLC also proved just how close Dragon Age 2 was to perfection

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