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
![Fred Durst New Vegas](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/VWgCmrhAqiqJ7bvWFwwqfe-320-80.jpg)
A New Vegas mod that added Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit was thought lost for 7 years—until someone finally found it on their hard drive
By Ted Litchfield published
news "I don't actually have anything to do with that stuff, I just happened to have it saved and helped archive it."
![Helldivers 2 best weapons - Soldier with a rocket launcher](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Z8fN4PRfWzJCBPchueSzjj-320-80.jpg)
Helldivers 2 studio continues to wrangle its servers like a bucking bronco, capping player count at 450K to avoid instability
By Ted Litchfield published
news The move came after a player count spike introduced some serious glitches.
![Star Wars Jedi: Survivor — a mugshot-like screenshot of Cal Kestis as he appears in the upcoming Jedi sequel, with droid companion BD-1 looking over his shoulder.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/EahbUPbHHPySaux3RxgEkD-320-80.jpg)
You can nab Respawn's singleplayer catalogue—including the Jedi: Fallen Order series—for just $45 on Steam right now
By Ted Litchfield published
news That VR Medal of Honor game they made notwithstanding.
![Elden Ring Vyke in front of red sky holding flaming sword in crouched position](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ohm4HLVPpnaj55Y4APqBZA-320-80.jpg)
If you've gone Hollow waiting for Elden Ring's actual expansion, tide yourself over with with this expansion-sized mod that transforms the entire game
By Ted Litchfield published
news The Convergence is like a wild Elden Ring romhack.
![Harry and Kim](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/d2439QqHYwVp6vbzeiBRNV-320-80.jpg)
Disco Elysium studio laying off nearly 25% of its staff—including the final remaining writer from the original game's credits
By Ted Litchfield published
news Argo Tuulik featured prominently in People Make Games' documentary on ZA/UM.
![elden ring let her solo me](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JoYdB3Qqvz7hmrXMQra5zj-320-80.jpg)
For the five people in the world who thought Malenia was too easy, a new mod turns Elden Ring's toughest boss into a 4-phase marathon ordeal including cut attacks and dialogue
By Ted Litchfield published
news I'll go ahead and say it: this one might be too hard.
![A worker sits in an empty office at night (illustrative, but not literally, a game development studio)](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hfuUJQ2mxkVsRyAByhFy2P-320-80.jpg)
The impact of 16,000 games industry layoffs, in one chart
By Ted Litchfield, Wes Fenlon published
Bad Year Game developers share personal stories of how the 2023-2024 layoffs have affected them.
![The Dark Urge, from Baldur's Gate 3, looks towards his accursed claws with self-disdain.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QJ7JHgYv6WEL9dHitak4vS-320-80.png)
Baldur's Gate 3's quad world record-holding speedrunner dishes on the invisible bears, companion murdering, and moon jumping that changed her life
By Ted Litchfield published
shadowboxing "It's super cool when people recognize me, but there are times where I'd rather just be 'Mae the Internet Stranger' and not 'Mae the Sex Speedrunner.'"
![Galaxy brain](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/q9aUcgvCCbQCiZe6MydCsb-320-80.jpg)
This browser-based 'endless crafting game' starts you off with fire and water, but it quickly escalates to God, the Big Bang, and 'Yin-Yoda'
By Ted Litchfield published
news Infinite Craft is Neal Agarwal's latest addition to a library of inventive free browser games.
![StarCraft Sarah Kerrigan](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/tpHZhZcqRL5KAXuA4NxSY8-320-80.jpg)
A group of modders have spent 10 years honing a remake of StarCraft 1 and Brood War in StarCraft 2, complete with remastered cutscenes and custom unit models
By Ted Litchfield published
news That's rad, but also StarCraft 2 is now older than StarCraft 1 was at StarCraft 2's launch and that makes me feel ancient.
![CJ-shaped mech in Elden Ring's Crumbling Farum Azula](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kdrtVRNqYgZFGyLHBwaSgE-320-80.jpg)
Seeing a video of Elden Ring maps loaded into Armored Core 6 makes me think an AC would just dominate the Lands Between
By Ted Litchfield published
News These things are huge.
![Garett climbing a building in Thief: The Dark Project.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Bs2EAPwztiQQLHEzzRRo2H-320-80.jpg)
26 years after Thief's release, one of its programmers is streaming the game's most ambitious mod
By Ted Litchfield published
news "As the author of the original user interface code, I apologize for how hard that is."
![Fallout power armor wearer holding up a defeated NCR ranger](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/YkLWtcKsnniZYGTDfUXD64-320-80.jpg)
Fallout: New Vegas mod turns power armor into the beastly tank suit it was meant to be, might finally get me to play something other than a sneaky sniper
By Ted Litchfield published
News As far as names go, "Titans of the New West" goes pretty damn hard.
![Death Stranding 2](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/68MSxpQoYW3b8jJkekjpB9-320-80.jpg)
We thought Death Stranding was Peak Kojima, but Death Stranding 2 already looks like it's scaling new heights of his personal WTF mountain
By Jody Macgregor published
??? The new Kojima game looks mad as a hatter? You don't say.
![Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Guardian](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/oFLYk5zfjgAGSaEPkKVwFi-320-80.jpg)
Destiny's story structure 'may have become predictable,' admits Bungie as it pivots to Episodes to 'pleasantly surprise' players more often
By Ted Litchfield published
news After 22 Seasons, we're looking at our first year of Episodes.
![Adam Jensen](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qvStbQr2dV2B4QQNKDB2Ka-320-80.jpg)
Embracer lays off 97 people at Eidos Montreal, reportedly cancels new Deus Ex game
By Ted Litchfield published
news The Embracer Group's plummet hits one of PC gaming's most beloved series.
![Dread Delusion Clockwork Kingdom new content](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qb4CYn9gqN8G2ZvUFWJvJR-320-80.jpg)
The latest update to my favorite indie RPG adds a clockwork police state ruled by a mad god
By Ted Litchfield published
news Dread Delusion is shaping up nicely.
![Knight with axe doing battle with armored foe](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Q7eFSPG24CwCSW6jroCagA-320-80.jpg)
The insanely ambitious Dark Souls 3 total conversion Archthrones just showed off a mysterious new area running on Steam Deck
By Ted Litchfield published
news Archthrones is looking like a funky Dark Souls 3 gaiden, remixing areas from that game and other entries in the series.
![call of duty modern warfare captain price](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/diU34JdSV5g2woXjLLsQDP-320-80.jpg)
Footage of a canceled, 10+ year-old sci-fi Call of Duty developed by Tony Hawk's Pro Skater studio Neversoft has leaked online
By Ted Litchfield published
news Neversoft scrapped the project before ultimately releasing 2013's Call of Duty: Ghosts.
![Dark and Darker - A player swings a sowrd at a mummy in a torchlit dungeon hall](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fv4M4XLL6MKEv69eguLCMc-320-80.jpg)
Dark and Darker dev claims Nexon's preliminary injunction has been dismissed, court rules that the game 'cannot be considered an infringement of Nexon's copyright or trade secret'
By Ted Litchfield published
news The lawsuit is still ongoing, but this seems like a big win for Ironmace.
![](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sthGXAvViJupt7KH47dmzX-320-80.png)
Baldur's Gate 3's champion speedrunner just smashed two world records in as many days through the power of friendly fire, invisible bears, and throwing a guy off a bridge
By Ted Litchfield published
news BG3 all-acts is now sub-20, while Mae beat the mondo-hard Honour mode in a brisk 21:17.
![Never Grave Key art of witch character](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/7ApxbEqbBqUrmQrSRn7dCP-320-80.jpg)
Palworld creator Pocketpair has another game in the works, and it looks like Hollow Knight with co-op and base building
By Ted Litchfield published
news If it ain't broke, add survival crafting elements.
![Pizza Tower's Noise smoking on purple background](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Edo5YXPQq8UgnPgMwfaCSD-320-80.jpg)
Pizza Tower, 2023's best platformer, is getting a free update where you play as one of the villains with his own music and moveset: 'Think of it as a sort of New Game+'
By Ted Litchfield published
news Avoid the Noise.