Latest articles by Ted Litchfield
One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons
news TommyB made instructions, firmware, and components all readily available if you want to try this yourself.
Sega just accidentally leaked its own sales numbers, and somehow Sonic Frontiers sold more than the last two mainline Yakuzas combined, but Persona 5's putting the rest of the stable to shame
news Blue Blur somehow still raking in the dough.
Elden Ring Nightreign modders are already going ham with custom skins, including Optimus Prime, Stellar Blade's Eve, and my #1 most-wanted outfit from Dark Souls
news My people yearn for Sir Alonne.
A criminally underrated action game with a soundtrack I'm still listening to 9 years later is on sale for just 2 bucks on Steam, and I already bought it again
news God, I should replay Furi.
Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor Samantha Béart was initially turned down for roles like 'Goblin 49,' but 2 years later they were hired 'within a day' of their audition as 'the muscle mummy we know and love'
heating up Béart also had a day job as an IT consultant during the long recording process.
This 'tediously accurate' map of our solar system with the moon scaled to a single pixel would still take 665 monitors laid end-to-end to show all at once
news We all know that space is mostly just space, but do we really feel it in our guts?
Pentiment and Fallout: New Vegas designer Josh Sawyer isn't usually a fan of RPG romances, but thinks Cyberpunk 2077 nailed it: 'If I were gonna base romances on anything, I'd probably do something like that'
looking for love "They have their own lives, but you keep coming back together to continue that storyline."
I didn't realize how much Elden Ring Nightreign upgraded its Dark Souls skins until I saw them side-by-side with the originals
news These assets have gotten some love.
Somebody actually bought that $3,000 Steam Deck prototype off eBay, then they let a YouTuber crack it open to see what's inside
news I'm glad that Valve iterated beyond this.
Dark Souls narrator and prolific actor Pik-Sen Lim has died
news Lim's career spanned decades, and included our first impression of FromSoftware's foundational series.
The Outer Worlds 2 director offers the most sympathetic answer I've yet heard for the $80 game question: 'We don't set the prices for our games,' and 'You'd have to honestly talk to the Xbox folks'
news Fair enough.
After 5 years in early access, I didn't think hardcore FPS Ultrakill could surprise me more—but my jaw nearly hit the floor on seeing an upcoming levels
PCGS 2025 The layer may be called "Fraud," but Ultrakill is legit.
Pigface is a gnarly neo-noir FPS with freeform assassination missions and a demo that just dropped on Steam
PCGS 2025 Who you callin' Pigface?
I'm obsessed with goblinAmerica, an FPS where you play the goblin president crouch sliding through a psychedelic dream world
PCGS 2025 Goblin president has my vote every time.
The remaster of classic D&D RPG Neverwinter Nights 2 is finally real, and releasing next month
news I've been waiting for Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition for a long, long time.
Oblivion Remastered’s improvements have Oblivion’s meme king hopeful Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas will see similar glow-ups: ‘[It’s] so much better and exactly what I have wanted for years’
News Oblivion fans are feasting, but there’s room for more.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is getting a fancy art book from Dark Horse that'll shed some light on its rebooted development
news The Art of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is set to release a month after the a long-awaited RPG.
This MMO can run Doom: EVE Frontier is so moddable, players are building entire games within its space survival sandbox, and the devs say it's just the beginning
new frontiers Another player developed a simple 4X game, while others have built NPC questgivers and PvP modes.
Singleplayer Elden Ring Nightreign is no longer hell to play, but it's still a compromised game of 30-minute boss runbacks
loneliest number Solo Nightreign has hit its natural ceiling of being 60% as good as the co-op experience.
Elden Ring Nightreign's Wylder can not only rocket jump with his explosive ultimate, he can grappling hook combo into it to fly around like an offstage Smash Bros. character
news S-tier recovery.
You get a unique relic for beating Elden Ring Nightreign's 'supposed to lose' tutorial boss, but don't worry: There's a buried menu option to fight him again
rematch The relic's better early game and nothing to write home about, but it's still neat.
The GOAT of Sekiro has already soloed Elden Ring Nightreign's final boss as its katana-parrying samurai guy
news The Executor, or as I like to call him, "Johnny Katanas."
It's not just you: Elden Ring Nightreign's matchmaking is taking forever if it works at all, and there doesn't seem to be a fix—aside from queueing with a full group
news FromSoft's suggested fixes so far are "turn it off and on again" and "some weird thing only for PlayStation owners."
You got Nightreigned: Elden Ring's spinoff is the most aggravating, player-hostile FromSoft game I've played, but I keep staying up past 3 AM for 'one more run'
Snackable Souls It feels like a mod (complimentary). It feels like a mod (derogatory). I kind of hate it. I kind of love it?
