Latest articles by Ted Litchfield
It's been 9 years of no word on a new Nier, but Pokemon creator Game Freak's upcoming action RPG might just scratch the itch
news Nier-ly there.
Wikipedia turns 25, still boasting zero ads and over 7 billion visitors per month despite the rise of AI and threats of government repression
news The Ming Dynasty Yongle Encyclopedia is quietly seething.
Once and for all, which game has the best art?
Fine art Make your case PC gamers.
Nexus Mods quashes rumor of 2-year bans for linking the site on Discord: 'There does not appear to be any risk of being moderated by Discord for posting Nexus Mods links'
news You may be personally banned from a server for that New Vegas Hatsune Miku companion, though.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'
News Not the hill I'd die on, but I'm not a billionaire.
Divinity: Original Sin 2's brilliant armor system is one of a kind in RPGs, and I'm bummed we'll apparently never see it again
en garde Sic transit gloria mundi.
Larian's head writer has a simple answer for how AI-generated text helps development: 'It doesn't,' thanks to its best output being 'a 3/10 at best' worse than his worst drafts
new My worst drafts are a 5/10 but I might have lower standards.
Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer hopes we won't want to save scum in Divinity: 'Our ambition is certainly to make failure more interesting'
news F5 + F8, save scummers say "great" / Overwriting autosave, scummers behave!
For all the Divinity dev details Larian isn't ready to comment on, we got a firm answer about the game's controls: the studio's sticking to its guns on no WASD movement
news I can respect it.
The best FPS games on PC
Updated Our favorite FPS experiences of PC gaming's past and present.
What games did you play over the holidays?
HAPPY NEW YEAR One last look back at the Christmas break.
I thought I was crazy for thinking Fallout 4 feels like a perfectly crisp fall day, but that's exactly what Bethesda was aiming for after a 'field trip' to a national park: 'I was like, this is what our world needs to look like'
news "It was late fall, so all the leaves were down, all the grass was brown, all the trees looked barren and dead."
The best Baldur's Gate 3 builds for Patch 8 and beyond
Kensai/Mage There are so many ways to play this game.
Fallout designer Tim Cain reckons his subsequent 3 projects were buggy games 'or, as people called them, flawed masterpieces' because 'we had a lot of feature ideas, we did not edit ourselves at all, and we were a small team'
news Emphasis on "masterpieces."
'Yeah, that didn't suck. That was good': Fallout: New Vegas lead writer says the Survivalist's journal in Honest Hearts is 'one of my favorite bits of content that I've written in a game'
News The Survivalist's diary entries were one of the few writing contributions John Gonzalez made to New Vegas' Honest Hearts DLC before leaving Obsidian.
Fallout: New Vegas lead writer 'loved writing' Yes Man, but thinks his questline may have been a mistake: 'It lets you get through the game without getting your hands dirty'
news The sycophantic, (mostly) immortal robot made certain design constraints easier to work around, but it allows for a "rebellious, individualistic" player to bypass some tough choices.
My favorite Fallout fan artist paints New Vegas how you imagine it, and he refuses to touch AI tools: 'I believe it's innate in humanity to appreciate real human-made art'
news Static remaster.
'There's a lot of cool things that, if you think too hard about it, they should never have worked': Fallout 3's pathfinding system had to be completely reworked over several months to account for Liberty Prime, but it was worth it because he's 'awesome'
News One of the most impressive set pieces in Fallout 3 took months of work to get right.
I'm not waiting 5 years for everyone to realize The Outer Worlds 2 is another Obsidian classic—I'm giving it its flowers now
🏆 Haters begone, I've got builds to plan.
Baldur's Gate 3 started on top and kept on climbing: Larian said it wouldn't make a sequel, then drip fed us an expansion's worth of free updates into 2025
Baldur's GOAT More Dawnguard than Dragonborn, but still.
Obsidian's Josh Sawyer leads the charge of RPG fans playfully roasting Stranger Things for its D&D rule flubs: 'The oldheads are going to catch all these things'
news Clerics casting Dimension Door? Not at any table in 1987.
Fallout: New Vegas lead writer worries Caesar's argument for authoritarianism 'was done a little too well,' but still believes 'you can't just make your tyrants cardboard villains'
News Fascism's foothold in the wasteland mirrors the way it spreads in the real world.
Elden Ring Nightreign is a deeply flawed multiplayer game I've spent over 250 hours in this year
🏆 Is this some kind of curse?
