Ted Litchfield
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.
Latest articles by Ted Litchfield

The Oblivion remaster is so faithful, it still has the secret glitched door to the end of the game that lets you roll credits in under 15 minutes
By Ted Litchfield published
news It's an older code, sir, but it checks out.

After Hyper Light Breaker players loved a secret one run, one life mode sneakily included in an update, Heart Machine is completely overhauling the game to match
By Ted Litchfield published
news Hyper Light Breaker's next update includes a progression and structure overhaul.

How excited are we to replay a shinier version of Oblivion 19 years later?
By Andy Chalk published
TESIV Oblivion is a safe pick for the remaster treatment, sandwiched between the more flavorful Morrowind and more popular Skyrim.

Fallout 1 lead Tim Cain says the marketing department wanted him to make it real-time 'because of Diablo,' but he got them to back off when he told them how much it would cost
By Ted Litchfield published
news He has some ideas of how real-time Fallout 1 could theoretically work, but says "I would never do it."

I don't know what I expected: Everybody's just recreating memes in Baldur's Gate 3's new photo mode
By Ted Litchfield published
news You're all having too much fun, we need to get back to power gaming.

While this paleontologist doesn't find Elden Ring's monster designs all that realistic, he was impressed by FromSoft's subtle storytelling and commitment to 'speculative biology'
By Ted Litchfield published
news Dr. Darren Naish walked away impressed with Elden Ring's attention to detail.

Thanks to Baldur's Gate 3's new Swashbuckler subclass, it no longer sucks to be a pure Rogue
By Ted Litchfield published
buckle my swash A three-level dip no longer.

Forget Baldur's Gate 3's new subclasses: Patch 8's most disgusting power gamer combo is the Rock That Makes You Stupid paired with a sneakily revamped level 2 spell
By Ted Litchfield published
NEWS Resonance Stone + Shadow Blade = Sicko Mode.

I'm a Baldur's Gate 3 Honour Mode sicko, and these are the 4 new subclass builds I'm most excited for in Patch 8
By Ted Litchfield last updated
Baldur's Buildz Permanent Hexblade Economy

My biggest pleasant surprise of 2025 so far has been the free prequel to one of my favorite indie RPGs, made with FromSoft's 25-year-old game making toolset
By Ted Litchfield published
moon man It's maybe not the best introduction to Lunacid, but Tears of the Moon is already one of my top games of 2025.

Data sleuth discovers that Sekiro's inexplicable, skyscraper-sized rope man who gives you a lift to Heaven might have once been a boss fight or level unto itself
By Ted Litchfield published
news One of those cuts that totally makes sense, but is still interesting to learn about.

The underrated, open world, hoverboard FPS gem of 2024 just got a free update with new guns and islands for its cloud archipelago
By Ted Litchfield published
Echo Point Nova is a great game worth checking out.

Never mind, President Trump truths on Truth Social that electronics (including from China) are still subject to tariffs
By Ted Litchfield published
news I guess somebody was just feeling silly at Customs and Border Patrol.

Bungie finally shows off post-Destiny extraction shooter Marathon, which will launch in September with signups open for a playtest this month
By Ted Litchfield published
news With Destiny flailing, Bungie's new shooter has to stick the landing.

Baldur's Gate 3's transformative patch 8, with 12 new subclasses and photo mode, will finally launch on Tuesday
By Ted Litchfield published
news On Tuesday, April 15, we're all returning to Faerûn.

The next game from the creator of Hyper Light Drifter is a Toonami-core anime throwback set in one of the most interesting Metroid-style worlds I've seen in a while
By Ted Litchfield published
searchvania My first look at Possessor(s)' gameplay was very promising.

Microsoft unveils AI-generated demo 'inspired' by Quake 2 that runs worse than Doom on a calculator, made me nauseous, and demanded untold dollars, energy, and research to make
By Ted Litchfield published
news Not my favorite gaming experience.

The rights to one of the greatest PC games of all time languished in the vault of a Midwestern insurance firm until a frustrated player bugged them about a re-release, 'But they asked me if I wanted to do System Shock 3'
By Ted Litchfield published
news Thus, Nightdive was born.

YouTube has started age restricting Balatro videos for alleged gambling-related content, and creator LocalThunk is clearly getting sick of this sort of thing
By Ted Litchfield published
news "Good thing we are protecting children from knowing what a 4 of a kind is and letting them watch CS case opening videos instead."

Overwatch and World of Warcraft art director Bill Petras has died
By Ted Litchfield published
news Petras had a long and illustrious career in the games industry, mostly at Blizzard Entertainment.

The remaster of D&D classic Neverwinter Nights 2 still hasn't been announced, but it's already Steam Deck verified
By Ted Litchfield published
news I'm vibrating out of my seat.

I loved the Nintendo Switch, but the Switch 2 looks like every other console now: A worse PC with a few exclusive games
By Ted Litchfield published
hit the deck The Switch was a bolt from the blue. The Switch 2 is ho-hum.

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

Psycho Patrol R, the FPS-Mech sim from the creator of Cruelty Squad, is one of the most challenging, complicated games I've ever played—and worth every second it took to figure out its deal
By Ted Litchfield published
hardcore to the mega Perhaps the most PC gaming game of 2025.
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