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

There's a reason Oblivion Remastered's new voice actors all sound familiar: It's a huge Skyrim reunion
By Ted Litchfield published
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
By Ted Litchfield published
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
By Ted Litchfield published
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'
By Ted Litchfield published
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
By Ted Litchfield published
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
By Ted Litchfield published
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
By Ted Litchfield published
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
By Ted Litchfield published
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
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.

The best Baldur's Gate 3 builds for Patch 8 and beyond
By Ted Litchfield last updated
Kensai/Mage Why stick with just one class when you could have, like, four?

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.
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