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
How are CD Projekt's side quests so good? Cyberpunk quest designer says they reject 'over 90%' of their pitches
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Just use the good ideas. Simple as.
Preserving old games was seen as a non-commercial 'art project' until recently, says Nightdive director: 'They were great then and they're great now, and companies have begun to realize that'
By Andy Chalk published
news Nightdive's Stephen Kick and Larry Kuperman shared their thoughts on the importance of videogame history in an interview with PC Gamer at GDC.
Baldur's Gate 3 mod tools won't be as extensive as Divinity's: 'We're not a tools company,' says Swen Vincke
By Tyler Wilde published
news The cross-platform mod support is coming "in the near future," the Larian CEO hopes.
Cyberpunk 2077 quest lead says early access wouldn't work for CDPR the way it did for Larian, and the studio prefers 'to have a banging release where everything is as close to perfection as can be' like Phantom Liberty's
By Joshua Wolens published
News Paweł Sasko says CDPR's ambition's don't include a Baldur's Gate 3-style early access period.
CDPR wanted to split players 'in a way that's almost 50/50' with Phantom Liberty's hardest choice, and drew on the toughest decision in Witcher 2 to do it
By Joshua Wolens published
News Did you struggle to choose towards Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty's end? Then CDPR did its job.
Putting the roleplay back in the RPG was a huge reason for Cyberpunk 2077's recent metro and romance updates, says associate game director: 'It's easy to overlook'
By Harvey Randall published
News The vibes are vital.
The mastermind behind Baldur's Gate 3's popular TikTok account spills his secrets: The sooner you can 'make a character look like Shrek and kick somebody off a cliff' unsupervised, 'the better'
By Harvey Randall published
News Somebody once told me to roll a d20, they used their Acrobatics instead.
Larian CEO Swen Vincke extols the 'incredible achievement' of Baldur's Gate 3 influence Ultima 7, but confesses he hasn't played since the '90s 'because I don't want to spoil the memory'
By Joshua Wolens published
News You know what, Swen? I get it.
Void Bastards' space cowboy sequel has 13 different 'outlaws' you equip and swap like weapons, but if you play poorly they'll refuse to work together
By Ted Litchfield published
Aces Wild I was playing so bad my desperados would have had an HR incident, but thankfully they all perished on an alien moon instead.
There's finally a demo for the Dark Souls 3 mod that transforms the whole game into a bizarro fan sequel to the series
By Ted Litchfield published
news Archthrones is a love letter to Dark Souls from series fans.
'You will not enjoy videogames anymore if you work in a big game studio:' New Blood's boss weighs in on what sets it apart amid an industry crisis
By Ted Litchfield published
news "The games we make, we make for ourselves. It just so happens other people also want these types of games."
Not only is Rainbow Six Siege free to play for the next week, it's also just $4 to keep if you like it
By Ted Litchfield published
news That's a pretty sick deal for the long running tactical shooter.
'10 years ago, we were just a couple of friends in my apartment trying to figure out what we wanted to do': the studio at the heart of the boomer shooter boom reflects on its first decade
By Ted Litchfield published
news "One thing I can say is work with your friends and treat them like they're your friends."
Dark Souls 2 modders have finally managed to crank its framerate past 60 without borking the entire game
By Ted Litchfield published
news Even a modest 60fps was once too much for the little Souls sequel that could.
The perfect, simple, microtransaction-free throwback to CoD Zombies has finally launched in early access, and it's $9
By Ted Litchfield published
news Hellbreach: Vegas is a perfect "catch up with your buds" game.
Disgraced former WWE boss Vince McMahon has been largely scrubbed from WWE 2K24
By Ted Litchfield published
news McMahon and Brock Lesnar, a wrestler implicated in the sexual abuse and trafficking suit that precipitated McMahon's departure, have had their roles in the game minimized.
I found everything I love—and none of what annoys me—about classic JRPGs in this upcoming game about a heartbroken knight combatting uncanny terrors
By Ted Litchfield published
news Felvidek is shaping up to be something special.
Elden Ring once had a different starting location, and while it makes more sense than the one we got, I'm glad they changed it
By Ted Litchfield published
news How did I get from the cliffside island fighting a waifish hand monster to an underground passage?
600 Activision QA workers just formed the biggest videogame union in the US
By Ted Litchfield published
news Quality assured.
New Blood boss wanted Dusk to be as moddable as Doom and Skyrim: 'If there's not anime big tiddy waifus in Dusk by the time we're done with the SDK, then we haven't done it right'
By Ted Litchfield published
news "Dusk Very HD"
How did beloved boomer shooter Dusk end up with a full art remaster just 5 years after its launch? 'We all kind of agreed: F*** it, let's go all the way with this'
By Ted Litchfield published
news One dedicated fan saw their mod work turn into a full gamedev job at New Blood.
Baldur's Gate 3 is so meaty, our Xbox cousins will need to play the Digital Deluxe on 4 disks wrapped in 'little slips' and stuffed into a single-disk box
By Harvey Randall published
News "Suboptimal", says director of publishing.
Helldivers 2 director explains how its freedom and wacky guns were inspired by tabletop: 'Let the player do the action, and you'll see what happens'
By Ted Litchfield published
news You gotta let people have fun with their lightning cannons and railguns.