Latest articles by Ted Litchfield
Dragon Age: Origins' Fade level is the sort of funky failed experiment you just wouldn't see in a triple-A RPG these days
Cross Faded Next time around, maybe skip Skip the Fade.
It was nuts that BioWare based Dragon Age: Inquisition's story on a DLC nobody played, but that DLC also proved just how close Dragon Age 2 was to perfection
legacy content Encounter design, baby.
Dragon Age: Inquisition's Hinterlands were the closest BioWare got to making an Elder Scrolls-style open world, and everyone agreed you should leave as quickly as possible
green hill zone The Hinterlands are one of the most controversial RPG starting areas, but were they really that bad?
In just 3 days, the state of Nintendo Alarmo hacking went from 'it loads a cat jpg' to 'it runs Doom better than a lot of PCs back in the day'
news As sure as the seasons or the tides, DIYers will make Doom run on that proprietary new device.
A college student put on a free stage adaptation of Silent Hill 2 'to make a truly frightening theatrical experience' all without an appearance by Pyramid Head
news "Part of his removal was proving that Silent Hill does not need [Pyramid Head], and what a better way of doing it by removing him from the one story that actually justifies his existence."
Apparently George Lucas originally wanted Liam Neeson to be the 'real' Obi-Wan Kenobi, with Ewan McGregor taking up the name after he died
News The Jedi and the Pauper.
Baldur's Gate 3's offscreen secrets include an 'asylum' for plot-critical NPCs and a 'magical teleporting death journal' to help particularly murderous players find Act 2
News It takes a lot of work behind the scenes to keep Baldur's Gate 3 running.
The biggest hidden gem of the Steam Scream Fest is Labyrinth of the Demon King, a brutal horror game that traps you in the worst place in all of Feudal Japan
Hell House You're in for a bad time.
I play way too many indie horror games, and you absolutely shouldn't miss Psychopomp Gold: it's $9 and got 1,000 'overwhelmingly positive' Steam reviews in just 1 week
underground The sleeper hit just got a paid, expanded re-release after an initial free launch at the beginning of the year.
6 times we got seriously creeped out by games that aren't even horror games
👻 Some of gaming's scariest moments came when we weren't expecting to be scared.
With no Disco Elysium 2 in sight, who exactly are behind the 5 studios of Disco devs now vying to make its spiritual successor?
Inland Empire Here's who's actually making each of these 'Disco Elysium spiritual successors' and their odds of doing something cool.
This new FPS is so good, it's almost unfair that it's free: A '1v1 me bro' simulator with 70 maps and no microtransactions that feels like the sickest Counter-Strike: Source mod of 2007
1v1 A $5 DLC doubles the number of maps and adds new weapons.
Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz dusts off his controller to stream Crazy Taxi on Twitch: 'The Republicans will accuse me of never having a Dreamcast or something'
news The VP candidate and Minnesota governor made an appearance on congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's channel.
Life is Strange co-creator says 'nothing justifies' the vitriol the series' current devs are getting while allowing that 'we would not have written things the same way'
Much of the pushback stems from how the new game Double Exposure handles the first game's primary relationship.
Hideo Kojima games have already gotten big reappraisals 5-10 years after release, now the auteur says he wants to make games that will impress space aliens centuries into the future
News Already done: Metal Gear Solid 3 is the first thing I'd show a starfish man from Tau Ceti.
Multiplayer mech shooter Mecha Break teases a 'pilot combat mode' where you leave the cockpit and run around like reverse Titanfall
Baby D.Va mode.
Valve giveth, and Valve taketh away: Team Fortress 2's BLU Scout is once again wearing the 'wrong' pants after a 17 years-in-the-making fix was reversed a day later
"Reverted BLU Scout pants fix because it conflicts with too many existing cosmetics."
I had to lie down for awhile after finishing Mouthwashing, a vile horror game that's become my feel-bad favorite of Halloween 2024
oral fixation Tis the season.
The creator of Dusk and Iron Lung is making a gruesome but surprisingly funny horror game about beating killer cultists with lead pipes and 2x4s
news Like Condemned by way of Deliverance.
There's really only one reason for Rockstar to release Grand Theft Auto 6 later on PC
NOT COOL And buddy I don't have to like it.
YouTuber LGR felt 'numbness at how powerless I was' as his one-of-a-kind retro PC collection took a direct hit from hurricane Helene, but seeing most of the trove survive now has him eager to share it with others
retro survival Retro PC YouTuber LGR was relieved to find much of his collection intact, but told me that "more than ever that there's a need to redistribute a lotta this stuff" to ensure its preservation.
The top 100 PC games
Class of 2024 Welcome to the 2024 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games around.
I can only assume this upcoming Witcher children's book takes it easy on the folk horror, fantasy racism, and brutal violence I associate with the series
News I can't pretend it's not cute though.
Epic wants its Fortnite-Disney metaverse project to be 'what every Disney fan has ever wanted,' but don't expect Mickey Mouse to pick up an assault rifle
News "Brands should be able to enforce the brand guidelines to the degree that they're comfortable with that brand being associated with particular ratings."
