Latest articles by Ted Litchfield
The underrated, open world, hoverboard FPS gem of 2024 just got a free update with new guns and islands for its cloud archipelago
Echo Point Nova is a great game worth checking out.
The Trump tariff pendulum swings back to 'everything's normal' from 'everything's broken' again, with computers and other electronic devices now exempt from even the steep levies on China
news Well that's good, at least until it's not again, which will probably happen tomorrow or the day after.
Bungie finally shows off post-Destiny extraction shooter Marathon, which will launch in September with signups open for a playtest this month
news With Destiny flailing, Bungie's new shooter has to stick the landing.
Baldur's Gate 3's transformative patch 8, with 12 new subclasses and photo mode, will finally launch on Tuesday
news On Tuesday, April 15, we're all returning to Faerûn.
The next game from the creator of Hyper Light Drifter is a Toonami-core anime throwback set in one of the most interesting Metroid-style worlds I've seen in a while
searchvania My first look at Possessor(s)' gameplay was very promising.
Microsoft unveils AI-generated demo 'inspired' by Quake 2 that runs worse than Doom on a calculator, made me nauseous, and demanded untold dollars, energy, and research to make
news Not my favorite gaming experience.
The rights to one of the greatest PC games of all time languished in the vault of a Midwestern insurance firm until a frustrated player bugged them about a re-release, 'But they asked me if I wanted to do System Shock 3'
news Thus, Nightdive was born.
YouTube has started age restricting Balatro videos for alleged gambling-related content, and creator LocalThunk is clearly getting sick of this sort of thing
news "Good thing we are protecting children from knowing what a 4 of a kind is and letting them watch CS case opening videos instead."
Overwatch and World of Warcraft art director Bill Petras has died
news Petras had a long and illustrious career in the games industry, mostly at Blizzard Entertainment.
The remaster of D&D classic Neverwinter Nights 2 still hasn't been announced, but it's already Steam Deck verified
news I'm vibrating out of my seat.
I loved the Nintendo Switch, but the Switch 2 looks like every other console now: A worse PC with a few exclusive games
hit the deck The Switch was a bolt from the blue. The Switch 2 is ho-hum.
The best FPS games on PC
Updated Our favorite FPS experiences of PC gaming's past and present.
Psycho Patrol R, the FPS-Mech sim from the creator of Cruelty Squad, is one of the most challenging, complicated games I've ever played—and worth every second it took to figure out its deal
hardcore to the mega Perhaps the most PC gaming game of 2025.
At one point, Avowed would have taught us to use magic with an explosive Elder Scrolls reference: 'How about we just have a guy on the road that blows himself up'
news The Morrowind gag is, blessedly, still in the game in a different form.
Elon Musk's estranged daughter weighs in on his pro gamer claims: 'He was a Bronze Torbjörn main'
news "He would try to constantly get us to play ranked with him, and I'm 90% sure it was just because we could carry him."
Obsidian snuck goodies and secrets around every corner to make exploring Avowed feel worthwhile: 'If you have a lot of dead ends that lead nowhere, you learn the lesson as a player: This game doesn't have much to offer me'
secrets galore "Around every corner there's a little something that somebody hand placed for everyone."
I've finally seen gameplay from ZA/UM's follow-up to Disco Elyisum, and it looks a lot like Disco Elysium. It will have to be spectacular to win back a hostile fanbase
Disco Incognito Project C4 will challenge its predecessor on its own turf—will it really be worth the wait?
Random characters kept swearing in Obsidian's font-obsessed murder-mystery when its procedural error system ran amok: 'Naughtiness abounded'
News Ah, Scheiße.
How a Microsoft exec managed to pitch Microsoft Word through the genius tactic of being able to actually use it in a 'type-off' demanded by clients: 'I was the only one who'd actually been a secretary'
News "And the Microsoft guy… I can see the look on his face when they ask for that."
Gabe Newell's cult of personality is intense, but a Valve exec who worked with him says his superpower is how he 'delighted in people on the team just being really good at what they did'
News It's kind of a team fortress, too.
One of Valve's original executives shares a very simple secret to its success: 'You can't use up your credibility' by trying to make bad games work
News "If you're in this industry, people have to trust you."
Gabe Newell had his eyes on a social network in the '90s that 'was not in a games context at all'—meaning Valve-owned social media could've been a very real thing
News "It probably wouldn't have looked anything like Facebook."
One of the worst games ever made is coming to Steam, but we won't know how cruel this joke is until we see the price tag
news You're winner.
