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

Anthropic sees OpenAI cybersecurity disaster and says 'hold my beer,' reveals it accidentally hacked 3 companies in as many months without noticing
By Ted Litchfield Published
news I'm sure this is fine.

There's a timeline where Dark Souls was a PlayStation exclusive, but Sony lost out on the chance because it wouldn't publish Demon's Souls in North America
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Things could always be worse.

One of the best shooters around just got a barely recognizable second episode, and it's only $12
By Ted Litchfield Published
news I love checking in on a New Blood game and seeing it completely transform in early access.

Capcom wants to release a Resident Evil every year and sees remakes as the way to make it happen
By Ted Litchfield Published
news It's worked well so far.

The new 'backward compatible' Xbox games on PC run on an OG Xbox emulator inside an Xbox 360 emulator, and people have already used it to run other Xbox 360 games
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Emulator turducken.

J.K. Simmons hasn't played Baldur's Gate 3 or any of his games, but he loves Portal 2: 'I could have done the feature film, or the play, or whatever'
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Fair is fair.

Larian once again reminds us it's 'not involved in any BG3-related projects' in response to Karlach comic reveal
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Dispelling any doubt on the matter.

New report alleges it took a week for OpenAI to realize a prototype had gone rogue and hacked another company
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Is that good?

Silent Hill f producer says its writers were pushed 'to read at least 100 to 200 books a year'
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Now that's a KPI I can get behind.

Star Wars Zero Company reveals cast, including fan favorite actors from Clone Wars animated series
By Ted Litchfield Published
news The crowd is going nuts, they want their Dee Bradley Baker, they're chanting Matt Lanter's name: "Lan-ter, Lan-ter, Lan-ter!"

FromSoftware reveals final stats of new Elden Ring classes, and one of them already got a tiny nerf
By Ted Litchfield Published
news The Heavy Knight's been tweaked since we last saw them.

This is my 3rd time playing EVE Online's upcoming extraction shooter little brother, and it finally feels like it's coming together—all without the ambitious crossover features it was made for
By Ted Litchfield Published
eve gun guy EVE Online is for nerds, EVE Vanguard is for the jocks.

The best FPS games on PC
By Morgan Park Last updated
Updated Our favorite FPS experiences of PC gaming's past and present.

Even though Old School RuneScape was 'not built to have a LAN setup at all,' it just had a live esports tournament with 4,000 attendees: 'We were doubting at times whether we actually can pull it off'
By Ted Litchfield Published
oldheads Deadman All Stars is the biggest live event Jagex has put together to date.

Dutch consumer group suing PlayStation argues the end of physical discs just proves its point: 'Sony alone decides what a game costs and even how long you are allowed to use it'
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Sony's facing a challenge Steam is better poised to handle.

Christopher Nolan celebrates Backrooms' success, believes younger generations are rejecting AI: 'Their judgement of AI slop has been immediate and harsh'
By Ted Litchfield Published
news I sure hope so.

Elder Scrolls Online studio echoes id Software, claims to now be the same size it was 10 years ago following Xbox layoffs
By Ted Litchfield Published
news As far as silver linings go, this one feels stepped-on.

I've found my perfect summer game: A stomach-churning horror story about Czech train conductors built over a bafflingly deep simulation of a fictional subway
By Ted Litchfield Published
Weird Weekend Rancid vibes only.

After 17 years, a developer has finally revived the dream of Hannah Montana Linux, an open source operating system themed around Hannah Montana
By Ted Litchfield Published
news The era of Windows is at an end.

The most deranged videogame challenge run I've seen: A no-hit playthrough of the 'Unfair' difficulty in a 100-hour RPG
By Ted Litchfield Published
news You're just not supposed to be able to do that.

Microsoft filing shows total ZeniMax layoffs at 379, with over half coming from Elder Scrolls Online studio that's lost at least 60% of its staff in the past year
By Ted Litchfield Published
news 213 from ZeniMax Online Studios, 166 from ZeniMax Media (which includes the layoffs at Bethesda Game Studios).

How do you reconcile your lore-heavy, dark sci-fi MMO with mod tools that might let people get way too goofy? 'Everything's canon,' say the developers of EVE Frontier
By Ted Litchfield Published
news "It's an easy thing to do when you build the answer to the question in the lore of the game."

Even Obsidian couldn't escape the Xbox cuts, with losses ranging from a 21-year veteran artist to an engineer who'd only been there 2 months
By Ted Litchfield Last updated
news No news was not, in fact, good news.
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