Latest articles by Ted Litchfield
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is my third-favorite game of the year, and I don't care who knows
🏆 The Veilguard is embattled, a little funky, and a damn good action-RPG.
Best FPS 2024: STRAFTAT
🏆 Our favourite shooter of the year was look all the best custom lobbies rolled into one.
The best heavyweight boxer in the world dressed like Hitman's Agent 47 to clown on his opponent in a pre-fight press conference
news Honestly? It was a great bit.
Witcher author reveals that Geralt is 61 years old in The Witcher 3, with even weirder ramifications for Henry Cavill's Netflix performance
news The most utterly ripped near-retiree in the history of fiction.
BioWare considered bringing the hero of Dragon Age: Origins back for Veilguard, but with a horrifying catch: 'Do not let her see me like this'
news BioWare loves doing horrible things to old Dragon Age protagonists.
CD Projekt had to nerf Ciri for The Witcher 4 after she fully unlocked her spacetime teleportation powers in the previous game: 'Something totally happened in-between'
news She did seem a bit OP by the end there.
My worst fears of a PlayStation-exclusive future for FromSoftware have been averted for now: Sony is forming a 'strategic alliance' with parent company Kadokawa, but hasn't bought it outright
news Sony is now Kadokawa's largest shareholder at 10%.
CD Projekt knows why we're all really here: Gwent is coming back in The Witcher 4, and the devs 'don't think anyone will be disappointed'
news I'm in the mood for some diversion. A game of Gwent would be best.
'I've spent my entire career trying to recreate the feeling I had when I played D&D for the first time,' says immersive sim godfather Warren Spector, with new game Thick as Thieves going multiplayer because 'you don't play D&D alone'
news Spector described wanting to push the genre in new and interesting directions.
Idris Elba would love to do a live-action Cyberpunk movie with Keanu Reeves: 'Let's speak that into existence'
news I'd watch it.
If you thought Ciri sounded different in The Witcher 4's trailer, you were on the money: A new actor is stepping into the role for the long-awaited sequel
news It's a surprising but not entirely unprecedented move.
In a sea of Game Awards announcements, you probably missed the debut trailer for Covenant, a gnarly 'FPS Soulslike' from veteran shooter devs looking to 'provide more than what seems possible for the price'
news Covenant's developers are talking a big game, but its first trailer looks sick.
Elden Ring Nightreign is FromSoft looking at nearly 3 years of mods and fan demands and going 'Hold my beer'
mod manager Seamless Co-op, randomizer, and the spirit of a boss rush mode all under one roof.
Bad news for PC Elden Ring fans: Nightreign's network test is only coming to consoles
news It lines up with prior FromSoft network tests, but I'm still bummed.
You weren't seeing things, Elden Ring: Nightreign's trailer saw the return of Dark Souls 3's iconic hidden megaboss, and I have no idea what it means
news What are you doing in Limgrave, Nameless King?
The Game Awards were stacked with even more big reveals than we expected this year
Roundup This year's show had tons of reveals that would have been the "one more thing" in another year.
Obsidian is about to make it a monster year for RPGs, with The Outer Worlds 2 coming later in 2025 after Avowed
news Begin and end the year with a huge Obsidian RPG.
Multiplayer mech shooter Mecha Break will launch in spring 2025, with 3v3, 6v6, and PvPvE modes at launch
news With ambitions like out-of-mech combat set to be realized down the line.
Harrison Ford says Troy Baker 'did a great job' playing Indiana Jones: 'If I'd known he was so good, I would've done it myself'
news Gotta be a dream moment for an actor, right?
After a year of delays, Hyper Light Breaker is finally launching in early access next month
news I've been looking forward to this one.
Psychedelic assassination FPS Cruelty Squad is getting official merch including 'Godhead Heavy Industry' hats and 'Resist Cocaine' t-shirts
news Pre-orders are open now.
Witcher 3 modders datamine a quest where Geralt would have teleported to Night City from Cyberpunk 2077: 'Technologically advanced, but broken. Dying.'
news Sounds nova, preem even.
Witcher 3 modders just upended everything we know about how it was made with a 584-page breakdown of an early prototype that had a 150-hour main quest, all thanks to a database 'containing almost every single line of text' from its development
news That's way too long.
