Latest articles by Ted Litchfield
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."
Pokémon dev Game Freak appears to have suffered a 'teraleak' that includes 25+ years of never-before-seen Pokémon art, assets, documents, and even canceled movies
news Get Detective Pikachu on the case.
The developers of the final 2D Fallout game had no idea their publisher was gasping for air: 'We weren't told anything about Interplay's financial problems'
news Fallout Tactics was made at a make-or-break moment for Interplay, a publisher with its fair share of make-or-break moments.
Lead Skyrim designer argues that Bethesda's primeval Creation Engine is 'perfectly tuned' to the studio's needs, so an Unreal switcheroo probably isn't in the cards
news I think he's on the money.
14 years after it first released, the original Red Dead Redemption's long-absent PC port costs a 'commercially accurate' $50
news Seems a bit steep.
'That's what we're trying to do, be a DM that enables any player's play style:' Check out the upcoming RPG that's trying to do Baldur's Gate 3 in miniature—in more ways than one
tabletop "Baldur's Gate 3 has raised the bar, and I think players would expect more in terms of player options and world reactivity and world interactivity moving forward from the very best RPGs."
This is the Disco Elysium successor to get excited about: Multiple writers from the original announce a manifesto to create an RPG 'with complexity and ambition to rival our wretched and wonderful world'
news Summer Eternal is an artist collective boasting two of the original Disco's five principle writers, as well as narrator and musician Lenval Brown and multiple devs from its canceled sequel.
There's now a third studio boasting Disco Elysium veterans trying to follow up the beloved RPG—here with a spiritual successor 'psychogeographic RPG'
We've got ZA/UM, Red Info, and now Longdue laying claim to the Disco legacy.
Thanks to its all-encompassing Randomizer mod, Deus Ex has gotten a festive Halloween update with game modes and modifiers to turn it into a survival horror game
news There are other great ways to play Deus Ex, but the Randomizer always has pleasant surprises in store.
Metaphor: ReFantazio's ReViews are in, and the Persona follow-up looks like 2024's unanimous RPG hit
news Heartwarming to see it overcome the handicap that is its name.
Iconic Dungeons & Dragons RPG Planescape: Torment was a 'B-Team' project that started life as 3 different games—including a 3D dungeon crawler
news Planescape: Torment is a beloved classic of PC gaming, but its beginnings were surprisingly inauspicious.
Epic boss Tim Sweeney says Unreal Engine 6 will be a 'metaverse' joining Fortnite and other Unreal games, including an upcoming 'persistent universe' in development with Disney
news Sweeney has big plans for this joint Unreal-Fortnite metaverse future, and is spending big bucks to see it happen.
A Quake 2 Remaster dev has rebuilt the game's unique PlayStation port from scratch and released it as a free add-on
A distinct version of Quake 2, forever unshackled from its weird pre-Halo DualShock controls.
Meta will use pictures and voice recorded by its Google Glass-style Ray Ban 'smart glasses' to train AI
Using the glasses' "Meta AI" features—a main selling point of the device—on an image makes it fair game for the company to hoover up.
