Latest articles by Ted Litchfield
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.
Oblivion Remastered’s improvements have Oblivion’s meme king hopeful Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas will see similar glow-ups: ‘[It’s] so much better and exactly what I have wanted for years’
News Oblivion fans are feasting, but there’s room for more.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is getting a fancy art book from Dark Horse that'll shed some light on its rebooted development
news The Art of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is set to release a month after the a long-awaited RPG.
This MMO can run Doom: EVE Frontier is so moddable, players are building entire games within its space survival sandbox, and the devs say it's just the beginning
new frontiers Another player developed a simple 4X game, while others have built NPC questgivers and PvP modes.
Singleplayer Elden Ring Nightreign is no longer hell to play, but it's still a compromised game of 30-minute boss runbacks
loneliest number Solo Nightreign has hit its natural ceiling of being 60% as good as the co-op experience.
Elden Ring Nightreign's Wylder can not only rocket jump with his explosive ultimate, he can grappling hook combo into it to fly around like an offstage Smash Bros. character
news S-tier recovery.
You get a unique relic for beating Elden Ring Nightreign's 'supposed to lose' tutorial boss, but don't worry: There's a buried menu option to fight him again
rematch The relic's better early game and nothing to write home about, but it's still neat.
The GOAT of Sekiro has already soloed Elden Ring Nightreign's final boss as its katana-parrying samurai guy
news The Executor, or as I like to call him, "Johnny Katanas."
It's not just you: Elden Ring Nightreign's matchmaking is taking forever if it works at all, and there doesn't seem to be a fix—aside from queueing with a full group
news FromSoft's suggested fixes so far are "turn it off and on again" and "some weird thing only for PlayStation owners."
You got Nightreigned: Elden Ring's spinoff is the most aggravating, player-hostile FromSoft game I've played, but I keep staying up past 3 AM for 'one more run'
Snackable Souls It feels like a mod (complimentary). It feels like a mod (derogatory). I kind of hate it. I kind of love it?
If you want to play Elden Ring Nightreign in a duo, the Seamless Co-op mod is already out, dead simple to use, and it won't mess up your vanilla save
news A bafflingly good mod, out less than a day after launch.
If you're playing Elden Ring Nightreign solo, every merchant carries a revive item, you can carry two at once, and there are more solo QoL changes coming next week
news The first patch already made a world of difference.
Update: The Elden Ring Nightreign Duos mod from the creator of Seamless Co-op is already available to download and play
News "There's also potential for a player cap increase in the future."
A Roblox farming game made by a teenager 'in like three days' had 8.9 million players online at the same time—Steam peaked at 11.5 million across all games on the same day
news Grow a Garden's popularity on TikTok and YouTube suggests it's not bots.
Even with The Elder Scrolls 6 just a twinkle in Todd Howard's eye, it's boom times for Elder Scrolls fans: The project to remake Morrowind in Skyrim just put out a 20-minute trailer and progress update
news Who are you calling N'wah?
Indie Fallout wiki joins forces with the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, ensuring a bright future for looking up RPG lore uninterrupted by half-page video ads
news UESP, the Independent Fallout Wiki, and their like are a real breath of fresh air on the 2020s internet.
'Son, you did a good job:' Doom grandaddy John Romero streamed hit indie FPS Dusk and absolutely loved it
news It's gotta feel pretty good to be Dusk dev David Szymanski and hear that.
