Latest articles by Ted Litchfield
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'
news Honest advertising for Fraud.
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
Wowed A permanent $20 price cut may be the most transformative patch of all.
'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'
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."
XCOM designer Jake Solomon announces surprise closure of his studio alongside a first look at its canceled life sim, 'the game we poured our hearts into'
news "Burbank" was set to be a life sim with dramatic storylines.
The modder who saved Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 1 has been showing off a treasure trove of material from the canceled version of Bloodlines 2
news I don't know if anyone on this earth loves VtMB as much as Wesp5.
Hideki Sato, father of the Sega Dreamcast, Saturn, Genesis, and more, has died
news Sato's career in games began in the 1970s.
'We lost things such as physics in games:' The dev behind my most anticipated RPG thinks players are craving more interactive games, not just 'moving around in a static 3D environment'
news Well, I am, anyway.
The dev behind my top upcoming RPG is a Hungarian chef who thought 'if not now, then when?' and learned coding from scratch to make his dream 'eurojank' masterpiece
euro vision "People have been craving this sort of experience, which was offered by Larian and CD Projekt."
It turns out Saber's John Wick game is coming to PC at the same time as PlayStation
news Well that's a pleasant surprise.
Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii has played 10,000 hours of Fallout 4 while refusing to do the main quest, build settlements, or travel with anyone but Dogmeat: 'I'd much rather be beaten to death by Deathclaws'
news The only guy playing Fallout 4 the right way.
One of the most underrated indie duos out there is making its 3rd game in as many years: An 'extreme stop motion horror' project that promises to be 'grossly fun but also stomach-churningly appalling'
news Made almost entirely out of clay.
'They have effectively ghosted us:' publisher of delisted art game Horses lambasts Epic Games Store after executive claims 'we love that studio'
news Quit horsing around.
Just in time for Hollow Knight's 9th birthday, Team Cherry rolled out its first update in years, including better support for ultrawide monitors and the Steam Deck screen
news No more black bars, baby.
Thanks to one mad modder, we can now play Doom on an in-game terminal in Ultrakill
news Escalating levels of FPS turducken.
If you want to get caught up with Larian's pre-Baldur's Gate work, $157 worth of Divinity games are on sale on Steam for $23
news Far out, man.
id Software's second FPS only brought in $5,000, and the studio might not have made Wolfenstein and Doom if the game hadn't made a dev fall out of his chair: 'That was just one of the craziest things in a videogame I'd ever seen'
news Happy 35th birthday, id Software.
2 days after promising it was still 'worthy of your investment,' the most successful Kickstarter MMO ever was canceled and its team laid off: 'The developers and staff acted in good faith and deserved better'
news Sifting through the ashes of Ashes of Creation.
I've already put 10 hours into this upcoming RPG's demo because it has the best combat I've seen outside a FromSoft game
news I got five hours of sleep last night.
Instead of difficulty, Obsidian designer Josh Sawyer thinks in terms of 3 RPG player archetypes: 'What are they trying to get out of this game?'
news I'm usually looking for a bow that shoots chain lightning or something.
15 years on, Dark Souls 1's best boss is nearly undefeated fighting Elden Ring's bosses, and one of his KOs definitely doesn't count
news Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy is a Mickey Mouse champion who does not deserve to be in the hall of fame.
Final count for Stop Killing Games petition verifies 1.3 million of its 1.4 million signatures, well above the minimum to be formally considered by EU politicians
news They threw out all of Sideshow Bob's votes from the pet cemetery.
Fallout lead Tim Cain worked 70+ hours a week for 2 years to make the classic RPG: 'I'm glad things have changed, that was unsustainable—but it was also absolutely amazing'
news "I often drove to work in the dark and drove home in the dark."
Fallout 4 feels like a brand new game now that it's forcing me to take naps, drink plenty of water, and not save scum
H4RDC0RE Pro: Everything feels fresh and dangerous. Con: I had to replay the same scripted walk and talk story mission three times on account of bugs.
