Ted Litchfield

Ted Litchfield

Associate Editor

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 former GameStop exec thought building its Steam competitor would be his 'forever job,' but the retailer bet the house on digital distribution being 'a passing phase'

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news This Picasso hack will never make it as a painter!

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A contributor to GameStop's long-forgotten Steam competitor explains why he thinks Valve came out on top: 'What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community'

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news In hindsight, who would have guessed that Valve would win against the likes of Microsoft, EA, or Ubisoft?

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The most hardcore Jak & Daxter heads in the world have finished their native PC ports of the entire trilogy

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news Aughts excellence.

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Nightdive's Larry Kuperman retires after 25-year career in games: 'We never looked at games as products'

By Ted Litchfield Published

news "If I have one parting lesson to give to the industry, it's never say die."

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Star Wars Zero Company director has 'an axe to grind' with turn-based tactics, says fans don't have to settle for no story, crummy graphics, and clunky controls: 'Depth doesn't cost you elegance'

By Justin Wagner Published

News "How do we do something that makes you feel something as a player, and not just think through a problem?"

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Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous' 232 subclasses make it the ultimate RPG for buildcrafting freaks—especially the overpowered Ranger who gets to ride a griffon from level 1

By Ted Litchfield Published

Classy By sickos, for sickos.

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Classy
'Early on in the 2000s, we got enamored with consoles and I think certain games didn't make the leap right:⁠' Star Wars Zero Company's director has a theory about why old school PC gaming genres are back with a vengeance

By Justin Wagner Published

news "Hopefully people are just [going to say] 'a great game is a great game,' and look at it from that perspective."

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Astromech droid, mass murderer, and historic keystone R2-D2.
Star Wars Zero Company's lead mission designer is eagerly waiting to watch all your all-astromech challenge runs: 'Granted, it might not be a very easy thing to do'

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News D-Squad rides again.

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A clone trooper firing a blaster in Star Wars Zero Company.
Star Wars Zero Company devs said 'there were some fights' about its story-centric squadmates suffering permadeath, but accepting that 'Star Wars is about loss' made the game stronger

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Hopefully nobody's processing that loss while the Tuskens are around. We know how that goes.

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Togruta character in Star Wars Zero Company looking at camera.
Star Wars Zero Company is more than just 'Star Wars XCOM'—it feels like Mass Effect but with turn-based tactics and permadeath

By Ted Litchfield Published

Tactical Coup This Clone Wars tactics game from former XCOM devs may end up 2026's biggest surprise.

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Tactical Coup
New Blood boss Dave Oshry 'quadruples down' on supporting GOG after worrying about its future, committing to sales, demos, one-click mods, plus day-and-date releases alongside Steam

By Ted Litchfield Published

news Oshry had expressed concern about GOG's long-term health in a recent interview.

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Hero modder restores the coolest bit of Elden Ring cut content: The heartbreaking tragedy of the second guy you meet that actually kinda justifies the game's most evil ending

By Ted Litchfield Published

news Punished "Venom" Kalé.

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These are my 20 RPG freak pick must-plays for $10 or less in the Steam Spring Sale

By Ted Litchfield Published

arr pee gee Sicko central.

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arr pee gee
Alligator man with tented fingers wearing blazer and monocle near green lamp.
The sequel to the most underrated RPG of 2022 is launching in early access next month, but you can try its massive updated demo right now

By Ted Litchfield Published

I've been waiting for Moves of the Diamond Hand for a long time.

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'No matter what we changed, somebody was going to get mad:' After hearing what an Obsidian dev went through to get RPG difficulty right, I get why nobody's ever gotten RPG difficulty right

By Ted Litchfield Published

news There may not be an RPG with a proper difficulty curve.

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Valve quickly updates its own Steam Machine update, recommitting to a 2026 launch despite AI woes: 'Nothing's really changed on our end'

By Ted Litchfield Published

news A recent blog post from Valve made it sound like the launch could slip into 2027.

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Please send help: We can't stop opening packs in Wikigacha, a browser-based card game where you collect Wikipedia articles like 'List of Red Hot Chili Peppers band members' or 'Bariatric Surgery'

By Ted Litchfield Published

news Whoah, a Methuselah rookie card!

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Esoteric Ebb isn't just the best Disco since Disco, it's the closest anyone's come to the magic of tabletop D&D in a videogame

By Ted Litchfield Published

ebb and flow Maybe the best RPG of 2026?

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ebb and flow
The creators of Rain World were tired of making something so depressing, so their next game is a 'loud and dumb and fast' cyberpunk racer you can try in the Steam Next Fest

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news It's like if F-Zero broke up the races so you could have Smash Bros. brawls.

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There's still no word on a Nier 3, but series mastermind Yoko Taro is writing a new Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series

By Ted Litchfield Published

news Couldn't have picked a better guy for the job.

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The upcoming Disco Elysium for D&D nerds just dropped a 90-minute supercut of its weirdly beautiful soundtrack

By Ted Litchfield Published

news Esoteric beats to role/play to.

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'It’s pretty sad and pathetic that a game with difficult content can’t get on the larger marketplaces:' Despite creeping censorship on Steam and Epic, these devs are fighting to make a transgressive stop-motion horror game

By Ted Litchfield Published

news It's a tough time for weird horror, but Talha and Jack Co won't stop.

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High flying FPS Ultrakill will finally reach the 8th layer of Hell next week: 'Skip school. Call out sick from work. It's finally happening. And we're not lying'

By Ted Litchfield Published

news Honest advertising for Fraud.

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Avowed was always great, but now that it costs what it should have at launch and nobody's being weird about it online, it's kinda perfect

By Ted Litchfield Published

Wowed A permanent $20 price cut may be the most transformative patch of all.

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Wowed
'Art and science and procreation, that's about all life is good for:' Two former freeware developers are still trying to keep it weird in an era when companies 'sell games to people in 5-second clips'

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news "These money people need numbers to know they will make their money back, which kind of conflicts with the nature of experimentation and trying to push the boundaries of the medium."

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