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
I thought I was tough stuff for beating Baldur's Gate 3's hardest difficulty, but this new permadeath 'Honour' mode has me quaking in my bardic boots
By Ted Litchfield published
honourable It seems positively sadistic. I'm in.
I can hardly wait for this madcap action RPG that'll let you hypnotize trolls, one-hit kill the beefiest bosses, and then just wind down with some fishin'
By Ted Litchfield published
News Mortal Crux is shaping up to be my kind of game.
Void Bastards dev announces space cowboy sequel Wild Bastards: an open-ended take on the BioShock-y roguelike
By Ted Litchfield published
News The Bastards are no longer Void, the Bastards are Wild. Update your spreadsheets accordingly.
Forget the Dark Urge: if you want to feel like a monster in Baldur's Gate 3, it has over an hour of different gut wrenching breakup conversations
By Ted Litchfield published
news "Ooft, you are a very Cone of Cold!"
Assassin's Creed players started having their games interrupted by full-screen pop-up ads, but Ubisoft says it was a 'technical error' and quickly patched it
By Ted Litchfield published
news This isn't the first time this has happened to Assassin's Creed either.
NieR producer promises the series will continue as long as creator Yoko Taro is alive to work on it
By Ted Litchfield published
news I want this man jogging, meditating, eating his greens, all of it.
'For fun and challenge:' The team that ported Jak and Daxter to PC has done the same for Jak 2
By Ted Litchfield published
news The only Naughty Dog PC ports I'm jonesin' for.
Even after 180 hours of Baldur's Gate 3, I never realized there's a game-spanning unmarked quest to find a stray cat a new home
By Ted Litchfield published
News Baelen Bonecloak, if I'm picking between you and one of BG3's adorable little cats, the choice is easy.
Once marooned on Metal Gear Solid 3's 3DS port, modders have gotten crouch walking working in the PC Master Collection version
By Ted Litchfield published
news You ever think about how videogame stealth modes gotta be heck on our protagonists' poor knees.
A mysterious 'third party' forbidding an embattled studio from bringing an essential Star Wars mod to consoles has left the dev fending off a gamer class action lawsuit
By Ted Litchfield published
news Aspyr canceled the DLC version of the Sith Lords Restored Content Mod in June, offering free game codes as recompense.
Even if you're not getting a Steam Deck OLED, the new SteamOS update will make your display just a little bit prettier
By Ted Litchfield published
news It's helping alleviate a little bit of that OLED envy.
A stable of AI chatbots imitating influencers for erotic roleplay has gone dark after its CEO went to jail for attempted arson
By Ted Litchfield published
news I want off this crazy ride.
If, like me, you're bummed for missing out on that monster Baldur's Gate 3 collector's edition, Larian's got you covered with an upcoming big box 'Deluxe' release
By Ted Litchfield published
news You don't get that big 'ole Mind Flayer Statue, but it still comes with plenty of goodies.
After her videos inspired by surreal '90s pre-rendered horror games blew up, this TikTok star is making an actual surreal pre-rendered horror game
By Ted Litchfield published
news Excuse Me Sir is shaping up to be something special.
Cliff Bleszinski recalls his '90s FPS beef with John Romero was so intense he wanted to 'take that guy down'
By Ted Litchfield published
news Bleszinski got candid about the go-go '90s in a recent interview with IGN.
After nearly 10 years, Australian developer Samurai Punk is shutting down
By Ted Litchfield published
news The company's run began and ended with the release of retro throwback FPSes.
Darkest Dungeon 2's first DLC is finally bringing back one of the original's strongest heroes
By Ted Litchfield published
news Welcome back, Reynauld.
It only took hours for modders to crowbar 4k support into the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection—now they've added ultrawide, high-res UI support, and more
By Ted Litchfield published
news Their hard work might make this thing actually worth $60 some day.
After a surprise cyberattack, the world's largest bank had to shuffle a USB stick around Manhattan to do business
By Ted Litchfield published
news Sometimes the old ways are still the best.
Deus Ex protagonist Adam Jensen's signature voice actor also wanted to do his motion capture, but was rejected for being too short: 'apparently, it was a lot of work to stretch me a couple inches'
By Ted Litchfield published
news In Human Revolution, anyway. Elias Toufexis did the whole performance come Mankind Divided.
With Icewind Dale 2's source code lost for good, a full remaster remains impossible—but modders managed to overhaul the game with their own 'Enhanced Edition'
By Ted Litchfield published
news This is probably the best Icewind Dale 2 Enhanced Edition we could have hoped for.
The Steam Deck's new clear plastic limited edition is giving me overpowering OLED envy, but I can't keep blowing money on these things
By Ted Litchfield published
news It's only been a year since I got my first Deck, man.
How to complete the Nepheli Loux quest in Elden Ring
By Sarah James, Sean Martin last updated
Helping hand Nepheli Loux's quest is one of the first you encounter in the game.