Latest articles by Ted Litchfield
Hyper Light Breaker has shadow dropped a new update with floating islands, difficulty modifiers, a beefy new tank character, and a challenging duo boss that's 'technically 4 bosses' depending on what order you beat them in
news The Double Down update is available now.
15 attempts in, I actually love that Elden Ring Nightreign's Everdark Libra is the first FromSoftware boss who's harder to beat in co-op than solo
Equilibrious Those crazy kids in Tokyo have done it again.
Actor Terence Stamp, who played General Zod in Superman and Mankar Camoran in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, has died
news Stamp was 87 years old.
One of the devs behind System Shock and Thief wants to see more games catering to 'a new generation of folks discovering the game that demands more from them'
"I think there's something there about a game that demands you put the pieces together in your head."
Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks the studio failed to 'prepare' fans for how different Dragon Age 2 was: 'People look at it and they're like, well this sure isn't Dragon Age: Origins 2, which it isn't'
news The best RPG spinoff ever made probably should have been called something different.
I played this free, 15-minute claymation horror game about examining an ancient idol in the morning while the birds were chirping, and it still scared me more than anything I've played in years
news The protagonist of The Children of Clay should have also considered doing his thing in the morning.
New report suggests that there are 3 million fewer PC gamers in Japan than 10 years ago, despite the market having at least tripled in size
news Does that add up?
A veteran Final Fantasy programmer hates how indie games deliberately recreate PS1 visual bugs he made 'many futile efforts' to fix: 'I just don’t get what’s so interesting about trying to replicate that'
news The kiddies can't get enough affine texture warping these days.
Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks Dragon Age remasters are the series' best hope for a future, but I doubt EA and BioWare even have it in them anymore
news BioWare had floated the idea in the past, but it never went anywhere.
id Software co-founder John Romero was apparently one week removed from co-founding a completely different icon of PC gaming, but he'd already made plans
news There's another timeline where Romero worked on System Shock instead of Doom.
The Battlefield 6 beta has broken Call of Duty's Steam player count record, surging past half a million concurrents
news This puts the BF6 beta at 18th place overall on Steam.
'Let's just kill everyone on the station:' The videogame audio log was apparently invented to avoid 'awkward' RPG dialogue trees
news System Shock dev Marc LeBlanc shared the story on a recent Nightdive podcast.
I don't want to hear a another peep about the 'AI future' until they make multi monitor support not suck
Figure it out! It's your job!
New report lays out Israeli military use of Microsoft services that prompted employee protests and a boycott of Xbox and Game Pass
news The joint investigation cites anonymous sources at Microsoft and in Israeli intelligence.
Somebody spilled some Minecraft in this hardcore first-person RPG, and I love the result way more than I ever thought possible
memento mori Nox Mortalis is an unholy combo of survival game and old school RPG.
Larian celebrated a 'probably this time really maybe' defeat of Baldur's Gate 3's Zoom grandpa portrait glitch too soon, with the beloved bug already rising from the dead like a slasher villain
news Don't look at me like that.
System Shock 2's alien 'sphincter doors' were made with photos from a dev's colonoscopy
news True intimacy with an artist.
McFarlane is making the Fallout: New Vegas NCR Ranger figure I wish I had 15 years ago
news Preorders are open, but a lot of vendors are already sold out.
FPS legend John Romero says Wolfenstein 3D was the first game id Software took its time with—a luxurious 4-month development instead of just 2
news "The results spoke for themselves."
Skyblivion's first major dev update since Oblivion Remastered makes its case as more of a full remake—including a mega dungeon based off a legendary bit of cut content
news Sutch really caught my eye, but there was a ton of cool stuff here.
Sorry haters, Elden Ring Nightreign's much maligned new Everdark boss is its best yet
Augur Ascendancy I will defend you, Everdark Augur.
It sounds like all the pieces are in place for one of the most underrated RPG greats—from the creators of Fallout, no less—to get the remaster it deserves, but good luck getting someone to make it happen
news Manifesting Arcanum Enhanced Edition.
