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

Modder turns Sekiro into Tony Hawk-style skateboarding sim 'Jet Set Sekiro'
By Ted Litchfield published
news Shinobi Execution.

ChatGPT will praise the mood and 'bedroom/DIY texture' of fart sounds pulled from YouTube
By Ted Litchfield published
news I boiled a lake for this.

They finally made an action figure of Star Wars' most evil and nasty grandma but it's already sold out
By Ted Litchfield published
news Darth Nihilus is also there.

Hackers demand ransom from GTA6 studio Rockstar, threaten to leak stolen data
By Ted Litchfield published
news Resetting the "Days Since Catastrophic Rockstar Data Breach" counter back to zero.

Esoteric Ebb creator reckons most players only saw half the game, and that's fine by him: 'You've got to miss stuff in order to feel like the world is bigger'
By Ted Litchfield published
esoterica 'I write 700,000 words and then I'm expecting most of it to not be seen on a normal playthrough'

11 years after launch, Pillars of Eternity's new turn-based mode feels like the way it's meant to be played
By Ted Litchfield published
news Let's slow things down a little.

Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope no longer feels comfortable talking about work-in-progress games: 'the situation just feels different'
By Ted Litchfield published
news "It's getting slurped up by AI or people are gonna copy it, or something else like that."

Star Wars Zero Company studio founder praises Lucasfilm and Respawn for taking a chance on a tactics game
By Justin Wagner published
News "Looking at some of the things going on in the industry, it's very derivative. Art is always that way."

Star Wars Zero Company writer wants its cast to have real friction: 'It's not a personal fantasy game'
By Justin Wagner published
News "Player-centric romance" and chosen ones have been cast aside for more tenuous team dynamics.

In 2007, two game music GOATs collaborated on the criminally underrated soundtrack to a similarly underrated D&D RPG
By Ted Litchfield published
critical hit The realheads know a Brandon-Schaffer collab is where it's at.

Datamined Elden Ring cutscene gives more clues about DLC villain Miquella's original story
By Ted Litchfield published
news Cryptic as always.

Fallout: New Vegas for the PS3 mod adds Fallout: New Vegas for the PS3 to Fallout: New Vegas for the PC
By Ted Litchfield published
news Also Fallout 3.

A former GameStop exec thought building its Steam competitor would be his 'forever job,' but the retailer bet the house on digital distribution being 'a passing phase'
By Ted Litchfield published
news This Picasso hack will never make it as a painter!

A contributor to GameStop's long-forgotten Steam competitor explains why he thinks Valve came out on top: 'What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community'
By Ted Litchfield published
news In hindsight, who would have guessed that Valve would win against the likes of Microsoft, EA, or Ubisoft?

The most hardcore Jak & Daxter heads in the world have finished their native PC ports of the entire trilogy
By Ted Litchfield published
news Aughts excellence.

Nightdive's Larry Kuperman retires after 25-year career in games: 'We never looked at games as products'
By Ted Litchfield published
news "If I have one parting lesson to give to the industry, it's never say die."

Star Wars Zero Company director has 'an axe to grind' with turn-based tactics, says fans don't have to settle for no story, crummy graphics, and clunky controls: 'Depth doesn't cost you elegance'
By Justin Wagner published
News "How do we do something that makes you feel something as a player, and not just think through a problem?"

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous' 232 subclasses make it the ultimate RPG for buildcrafting freaks—especially the overpowered Ranger who gets to ride a griffon from level 1
By Ted Litchfield published
Classy By sickos, for sickos.

'Early on in the 2000s, we got enamored with consoles and I think certain games didn't make the leap right:' Star Wars Zero Company's director has a theory about why old school PC gaming genres are back with a vengeance
By Justin Wagner published
news "Hopefully people are just [going to say] 'a great game is a great game,' and look at it from that perspective."

Everything you need to know about Star Wars Zero Company
By Ted Litchfield published
zero to hero Bit Reactor's debut is a complicated and exciting beast of a tactics game.

Star Wars Zero Company's lead mission designer is eagerly waiting to watch all your all-astromech challenge runs: 'Granted, it might not be a very easy thing to do'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News D-Squad rides again.

Star Wars Zero Company devs said 'there were some fights' about its story-centric squadmates suffering permadeath, but accepting that 'Star Wars is about loss' made the game stronger
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Hopefully nobody's processing that loss while the Tuskens are around. We know how that goes.

Star Wars Zero Company is more than just 'Star Wars XCOM'—it feels like Mass Effect but with turn-based tactics and permadeath
By Ted Litchfield published
Tactical Coup This Clone Wars tactics game from former XCOM devs may end up 2026's biggest surprise.

New Blood boss Dave Oshry 'quadruples down' on supporting GOG after worrying about its future, committing to sales, demos, one-click mods, plus day-and-date releases alongside Steam
By Ted Litchfield published
news Oshry had expressed concern about GOG's long-term health in a recent interview.
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