Latest articles by Ted Litchfield
EVE Frontier 'is not really a blockchain game, no more than EVE is a database game:' CCP hopes you'll give crypto a chance for a space sim with tactical combat 'bordering on survival horror'
chain reaction If any studio has earned the right to experiment with a crypto game, it's the digital economy specialists at CCP Games.
Mohrta is now one of my must-plays for 2025: A surreal, striking FPS that somehow got soulslike levels and bosses working on the Doom engine
news And it easily has one of the best hub areas I've seen in a minute.
To stop its 'strip-mining of journalism,' some of the biggest Canadian news companies are suing OpenAI to the tune of $20,000 for every article fed to ChatGPT
news A number of media companies have been challenging OpenAI on copyright grounds.
The actor behind Half-Life's G-Man based his iconic, halting delivery on the idea he was experiencing multiple timelines at once: 'His relationship to time is very different than you or I would think'
news The right man in the wrong places.
Dragon Age: Inquisition's final expansion was going to force us to blow up our home base to kill a fan favorite Origins companion
news Anyone but Sten!
CD Projekt's switch to Unreal wasn't motivated by Cyberpunk 2077's rough launch or a 'This is so bad we need to switch' situation, says senior dev
news REDengine: Gone but not forgotten.
The best 1440p OLED monitor deal of Black Friday is dead, but the runner-up is still hanging in there at the moment
Deal I say 4K is for chumps.
Half-Life 2 testers horsing around with physics props 'to make the 47th playthrough of the game more interesting' probably had no idea it would result in Gabe Newell launching a garden gnome into space 16 years later
news Cratebaby lives.
The best CRPGs to play after Baldur's Gate 3
Adventures await Defeated the Absolute already? Here are some options for your next adventure.
Valve first came up with the Steam Hardware Survey more than 20 years ago because it wanted to know what specs it should target for Half-Life 2
news The first public Steam Hardware Survey came in April 2003, but there were private antecedents used by Valve earlier.
Game of Thrones actor and former World's Strongest Man Hafþór Björnsson has hoisted 996 lbs, 283 Petabytes, and about $32 million worth of next-gen SSDs in what has to be the most expensive deadlift in history
news The union of strength spectacle and enterprise hardware we were all craving.
Microsoft has blocked the latest Windows 11 update on PCs with Star Wars Outlaws and other Ubisoft games installed
news The games are experiencing mysterious, persistent crashes on the 24H2 update.
After losing money in 2022, Larian raked in a whopping $260 million profit of Baldur's bucks in 2023
news €249 million, or $259,891,260 at the time of writing, to be precise.
Valve zoomed in Half-Life 2's FOV from the gold standard 90 so you could see all those pretty Source engine faces better
news Long-forgotten FOV crimes exposed.
The community behind the PC port of Ocarina of Time have been secretly working on a native version of Star Fox 64
news The port, called "Starship," is looking pretty crisp in beta form.
Steam has died its final death on Windows 7 and 8: Nearly a year after Valve ended support, new Steam updates will no longer function on the ancient OSes
news We had a good run, didn't we?
After 3 years and a handoff to a new team, the ambitious Project Mojave mod imagining New Vegas in the time of Fallout 4 has ceased development
news The Bethesda game total conversion is a difficult path not for the faint of heart.
The origin of the Source engine's iconic neon fuchsia checkerboard texture, as told by Half-Life 2's new commentary mode
news There's no mistaking this guy.
Dragon Age: Inquisition was supposed to see your Origins character return for what would have been the most excruciating choice BioWare ever concocted
news I don't know if I could have made the call.
The last thing I ever want to do is 'Learn more' or have you 'Remind Me Later': Microsoft is pushing fullscreen ads for Windows 11 laptops to people still using Windows 10
news Another win for Linux Guy accelerationism.
A summer intern once saved Valve from a near-fatal lawsuit after a publisher 'decided to go World War 3' on it, and it all hinged on one email
news "The company was pretty close to going bankrupt, I was pretty close to going personally bankrupt—we went all in, there was no money left"
Bioware's art lead shared some off-the-wall rejected concepts for Dragon Age: Inquisition's multiplayer characters, including the return of a controversial companion we never saw again
news I wish I could be friends with all of them.
12 years on, Star Wars: The Old Republic is still kicking, with revamped graphics and new story content coming soon
news Update 7.6 is coming in early December, with the Galactic Threads" storyline to come later.
