Latest articles by Ted Litchfield
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.
One of Elden Ring Nightreign's returning Dark Souls bosses launches into the stratosphere halfway through the fight to hide that he gets replaced by a second, smaller guy
news Movie magic.
The best FPS games on PC
Updated Our favorite FPS experiences of PC gaming's past and present.
My heart's already been stolen by this stop-motion adventure made out of wood and 'mostly in a garden shed'
news "Every animation was captured frame-by-frame using real sets, hand-crafted props, and a physical wooden mouse."
Its demo only took me 10 minutes, but this claymation picture book puzzle game inspired by medieval alchemy is one to watch out for
news Wait, you've got *all* the living things in there?
'The hunting genre was because of Wal-Mart:' Doom dev John Romero says the entire category was created to appease one Texan executive
news Romero dove into the sequence of events on a recent podcast appearance.
Bloodlines 2 studio The Chinese Room has bought its own independence, but also laid off employees in the process
news You win some, you lose some
Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there
news Everyone hated that.
A jaw-dropping mod to remake part of Fallout 1 in Doom has resurfaced after 3 years of silence
news Fallout: Bakersfield looks sick as hell, but it still seems a long way off.
