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

A minor Fallout: New Vegas quest got its own ending slide because the team was transfixed by the choice where you make the NCR's worst soldiers take Psycho
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Who you callin' Poindexter?

New Steam Controller reportedly $99
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Premium price? Definitely. Premium product? We'll see.

After over 3 years of running like dogwater on Steam Deck, one of my favorite RPGs has finally earned its Verified badge
By Ted Litchfield Published
news I hope this is no delusion.

My favorite RPG of 2026 put an impossible challenge in the second room to teach you not to save scum: 'I am your DM, trust me'
By Ted Litchfield Published
scum city "It's a bunch of different stuff stolen from Fallout, obviously, like all good things."

After 15 years and 323 hours, I've finally beaten Fallout: New Vegas, and this game doesn't need mods as much as you think it does
By Ted Litchfield Published
jingle jangle Good enough on its own.

Counter-Strike player sucker punches opponent at tournament
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Where were you when you found out that MAUschine punched Spidergum at CAGGTUS?

Armored Core 6 is one of the best mech builders in gaming, and this pitch-perfect Sailor Moon AC is just more proof of that
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Steel Haze: Sailor Moon.

If you want to remember feeling hopeful for the future, you can read over 200 issues of the legendary Byte magazine for free on the Internet Archive
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Take me back.

I never want to play a Cleric in D&D, but 2026's best RPG stars one for a simple reason: 'I'm sorry to say they are just overpowered'
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Sword and Spell? No, Mace and Magic.

We owe Fallout's existence to an admiral and his officers teaching its designer to play D&D in 1979
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Thank you, sailor.

After the death of Dragon Age, it's a megaton bummer to go back and hear BioWare's founders talk about the series' bright future
By Ted Litchfield Published
Reflection Class Nine Bummerino, dude.

US may force operating systems to have mandatory age verification, share info with third parties
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Here lies darkness.

Moves of the Diamond Hand will be one of 2027's best RPGs, and it just launched in early access
By Ted Litchfield Published
shine on The great unfinished games debate.

Modder turns Sekiro into Tony Hawk-style skateboarding sim 'Jet Set Sekiro'
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Shinobi Execution.

ChatGPT will praise the mood and 'bedroom/DIY texture' of fart sounds pulled from YouTube
By Ted Litchfield Published
news I boiled a lake for this.

They finally made an action figure of Star Wars' most evil and nasty grandma but it's already sold out
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Darth Nihilus is also there.

Hackers demand ransom from GTA6 studio Rockstar, threaten to leak stolen data
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Resetting the "Days Since Catastrophic Rockstar Data Breach" counter back to zero.

Esoteric Ebb creator reckons most players only saw half the game, and that's fine by him: 'You've got to miss stuff in order to feel like the world is bigger'
By Ted Litchfield Published
esoterica 'I write 700,000 words and then I'm expecting most of it to not be seen on a normal playthrough'

11 years after launch, Pillars of Eternity's new turn-based mode feels like the way it's meant to be played
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Let's slow things down a little.

Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope no longer feels comfortable talking about work-in-progress games: 'the situation just feels different'
By Ted Litchfield Published
news "It's getting slurped up by AI or people are gonna copy it, or something else like that."

Star Wars Zero Company studio founder praises Lucasfilm and Respawn for taking a chance on a tactics game
By Justin Wagner Published
News "Looking at some of the things going on in the industry, it's very derivative. Art is always that way."

Star Wars Zero Company writer wants its cast to have real friction: 'It's not a personal fantasy game'
By Justin Wagner Published
News "Player-centric romance" and chosen ones have been cast aside for more tenuous team dynamics.

In 2007, two game music GOATs collaborated on the criminally underrated soundtrack to a similarly underrated D&D RPG
By Ted Litchfield Published
critical hit The realheads know a Brandon-Schaffer collab is where it's at.
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