Latest articles by Ted Litchfield
PC gaming remains undefeated: Nintendo now says it has the right to brick your Switch if it thinks you're pirating games or modifying the console
news Citizen, we have detected installation of an unlicensed "Bowsette" software modification. Prepare for interdiction by a licensed Nintendo paramilitary subcontractor.
One of the most visually stunning roguelikes just overhauled its graphics to look even gnarlier, but you can still toggle back to the OG art style at will
news Mortal Sin now has two art styles for the price of one.
Elden Ring's upcoming update will add two new starting classes, one of them equipped with a top-tier DLC weapon it used to take dozens of hours to grab
news *Tips fedora* Milady.
The voice of Disco Elysium's Ancient Reptilian Brain performed the game's famous karaoke scene live and in costume
news The Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns.
How do you get fresh blood in a 22-year-old, infamously impenetrable MMO? EVE Online hopes it's a 'player-created gig economy' that has veterans making missions for newbies: 'We're 100% sure that you will do a better job'
side hustle Space spreadsheets, meet space gig economy.
EVE Online studio CCP is making a medieval-style tome of epic poetry inked with the blood of players to commemorate the game: 'It turns out, to store information, a really good way is to take blood and write on calfskin'
news CCP is giving most of the fan blood to the Blood Bank of Iceland, while keeping some to write a calfskin illuminated manuscript about EVE Online.
There's a reason Oblivion Remastered's new voice actors all sound familiar: It's a huge Skyrim reunion
news The return of actor Keith Szarabajka (Erandur in Skyrim, Joshua Graham in New Vegas) for Newblivion was a particular treat for me.
Oblivion Remastered has nearly tripled how much Skooma you can chug at once, ringing in a new era of drug-fueled super speed
news OG Oblivion: Eight stacks of Skooma zoomies (Skoomies). Oblivion Remastered: 22.
It took us embarrassingly long to realize that Oblivion Remastered still has a local map for when you get lost in dungeons
news Oblivion Remastered's local map isn't exactly easy to find.
Larian boss Swen Vincke says the studio is 'deep in the trenches' on its 'crazy-ambitious' follow up to Baldur's Gate 3, hopes to show it off no later than 2030 because 'my wife will divorce me if it takes longer'
news "I hope that definitely five years from now I can tell you about it."
Because of a Baldur's Gate 3 weapon's deceptive description, it took me nearly two years to realize it's a sleeper beast—and I'm kicking myself because it works the exact same way in Baldur's Gate 2
news Belm is back, baby.
Oblivion Remastered hit 4 million players in less than a week, with a big chunk of them buying the game on Steam
news That overall figure includes PC, PS5, and Xbox sales, as well as Game Pass players.
Hexblade might the best 1-level dip in Baldur's Gate 3, but going the distance with a full 12 levels and their infinite necrotic ghost turrets has me fixing to finally beat the game without multiclassing
Hex Heck I'm Mr. Multiclass, but a full 12 levels of Hexblade is hard to beat.
Modders somehow cranked out a VR mod for Oblivion Remastered mere hours after its surprise launch
news It's like you're really there, stabbing the rats.
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
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
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?
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
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
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'
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
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
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
Baldur's Buildz Permanent Hexblade Economy
