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
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Our 2022 game of the year runner-up, the criminally underrated Marvel's Midnight Suns, is free to keep on the Epic Game Store
By Ted Litchfield published
news Do some tactical battling then hang out with Blade.
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Frostpunk's lead designer was 'dumbstruck' at the insanely difficult self-imposed challenges players managed in the brutal settlement sim: 'I was like, that's not possible'
By Ted Litchfield published
news "And there's a group of people who really enjoy playing like that."
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One Fallout 3 fan investigated how many bombs actually landed on the Capital Wasteland: it turns out, not that many
By Ted Litchfield published
news It depends on how you count.
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A new mod aims to remaster 5500 voice lines from cult classic RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, cleaning up the audio and fixing volume levels 'with extreme care for the source material'
By Ted Litchfield published
news Some of those recordings really benefit from the TLC.
![Oblivion man](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Rmtq8KDLagPDutJTp5ZViE-320-80.jpg)
Everyone's excited for Skyblivion, but one dedicated dev has been working for years to go in the opposite direction: cramming Oblivion into a version of Morrowind's engine—and they've got a good reason for it too
By Ted Litchfield published
news Cc9cii is working to get newer Bethesda games running on OpenMW in the name of compatibility and preservation.
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A new throwback RPG is so good, it's won praise from Larian boss Swen Vincke: 'I’m flying to LA next week and plan to play it the entire flight'
By Ted Litchfield published
news Skald: Against the Black Priory is really winning us over.
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The best horror games on PC
By Jody Macgregor last updated
Updated These are the best horror games you can play on PC.
![Shadowheart's eyes go white as she holds a glowing magic artifact](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/evgkd5RtjKjH5pEk9d97Ch-320-80.jpg)
The best Baldur's Gate 3 multiclass builds for tackling Tactician and Honour mode
By Ted Litchfield last updated
Kensai/Mage Why stick with just one class when you could have, like, four?
![The scout, soldier, and heavy from TF2](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WXCauYx5iuX7NSjYhqLCE4-320-80.jpg)
You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will
By Ted Litchfield published
news All these unfinished, 75% off, 7/10 RPGs will be lost to time, like tears in rain.
![WIP versions of Windows 10 desktop background with light being filtered through a physical windows 10 logo](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/52HVcjStCQTsaDJWzEt946-320-80.jpg)
I was shocked to find out the Windows 10 desktop background wasn't computer generated, but a picture of lasers being shot through an actual window
By Ted Litchfield published
news My appreciation for a desktop background I immediately switched out has grown exponentially.
![Baldur's Gate 3's Elminster](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5P9L7TJhvTMREufDzLWQpA-320-80.png)
If you've never played Baldur's Gate 3 with its nudity censor turned on, it straight up gives everybody a fig leaf like they're cartoon characters
By Ted Litchfield published
news I guess that's one way to do it.
![The TF2 spy looks shocked!](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LNZLzH4PLEZ5m7nvPGAJcR-320-80.jpg)
This is getting ridiculous: It looks like one of Deadlock's leakers has made it so you can see the unannounced Valve shooter's playtest concurrents, hero code names, and update history on SteamDB
By Ted Litchfield published
news It would take an unreasonable effort to fake this SteamDB entry.
![Destiny 2: Forsaken](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ULjhZ9RUQFVG9QpjacefpP-320-80.jpg)
Bungie wins a little walkin' around money in first of its kind jury trial against Destiny 2 cheat maker, but the victory will likely make it even easier for game companies to keep taking cheaters to court
By Ted Litchfield published
news $63,210 is a life changing amount of money for you or me, but the legal precedent is the bigger deal here.
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It turns out you can find Idris Elba's Cyberpunk 2077 character hanging out and working a regular job in Night City before you start the expansion
By Ted Litchfield published
news He mentions that he's a bouncer, and guess what? He's a bouncer.
![Wuthering Waves - A female character readying to fight](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WsizsQBsrtzBhotrnXos9D-320-80.jpg)
Players unlock unreleased content in live service game ultimate hacker style: setting their system clocks forward a few weeks
By Ted Litchfield published
news The absolutely absurd Wuthering Waves exploit seems to have already been patched.
![Androgynous knight in intricate armor holding sword partially obscuring face while holding helmet in other hand](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eYH5oXtjSbFngjjuNtTaN4-320-80.jpg)
A new Shadow of the Erdtree promo image is almost 100% our first look at one of Elden Ring's most mysterious characters
By Ted Litchfield published
news Though one eagle-eyed observer noticed that they also made a brief appearance in the first gameplay trailer.
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The developer of exceptional 2022 sci-fi adventure Norco is following it up with a 'narrative micro-adventure' about an android exploring an AI-haunted oil refinery
By Ted Litchfield published
news You can play the demo for Silenus (and find all the tracks to Umbilical by Thou) right now.
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It's already been 9 years since The Witcher 3 first released, and if you've somehow never played CD Projekt's opus, the complete package with all DLC is just 13 bucks on Steam to celebrate
By Ted Litchfield published
news One game I'll always come back to.
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We don't have to live like this: you can set Chrome to default to Google's new nonsense-free 'Web' search, which also completely bypasses that awful AI answer box
By Ted Litchfield published
news Web search is great, and it's not too hard to set it to be your default.
![Mara Jade battling monster thing with purple lightsaber](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/w4zj3khWJ5tin646kxwVpQ-320-80.jpg)
Nothing is too niche for modders to remaster, not even a '90s Star Wars FPS expansion pack where you play as Luke Skywalker's weird non-canon wife rescuing my favorite Expanded Universe dork
By Ted Litchfield published
news Mysteries of the Sith Remastered just got a big 3.0 update.
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Always keep backups: an 'unprecedented' Google Cloud debacle saw a $135 billion pension fund's entire account deleted and services knocked out for nearly two weeks
By Ted Litchfield published
news Thankfully, UniSuper kept backups for its backups.
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If you've somehow not played Baldur's Gate 3 yet, our 2023 GOTY is on sale for 15% off, the lowest it's been since launch
By Ted Litchfield published
news Whether you pay $60 or $51 for BG3, it's gonna be worth it.
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With a month to go until Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, FromSoftware has broken its silence once more to show us a messed up new guy we'll fight in the expansion
By Ted Litchfield published
news He looks suitably freaky.