Ted Litchfield
Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister's copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer. He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent, but has also covered esports, modding, and rare game collecting. When he's not playing or writing about games, you can find Ted lifting weights on his back porch.
Latest articles by Ted Litchfield

Multiplayer mech shooter Mecha Break will launch in spring 2025, with 3v3, 6v6, and PvPvE modes at launch
By Ted Litchfield published
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'
By Ted Litchfield published
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
By Ted Litchfield published
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
By Ted Litchfield published
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.'
By Ted Litchfield published
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
By Ted Litchfield published
news That's way too long.

Life is Strange: Double Exposure developer Deck Nine lays off staff for the second time this year
By Ted Litchfield published
news It was not revealed how extensive this round was.

Call of Duty Black Ops 6 is getting a gun that is also a bong, resulting in a backlash from players who are upset they got banned for toxic voice chat in a game that is 'promoting using drugs'
By Ted Litchfield published
news It's like a whole different universe.

How to unlock the Blackshirt disguise in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
By Ted Litchfield published
Incognito Explore with ease and get yourself into an underground boxing ring.

Fortnite is getting a 5v5 FPS mode that's basically Counter-Strike and launches in just a few days
By Ted Litchfield published
news Just wiped out Tomato Town.

Path of Exile 2 is already one of the top 20 most played games in Steam's history even though it's in early access and all the servers have been on fire
By Ted Litchfield published
news Not too shabby guys.

Before Googling for a guide in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, give the in-game hint system a try: It's genuinely the best one I've ever seen in a game
By Ted Litchfield published
say cheese Just take a picture of the thing giving you trouble.

My number one piece of advice for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle players is to do each zone's main quest first to unlock game-changing upgraded disguises as early as possible
By Ted Litchfield published
suit up The clothes make the man

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review: a winning adventure that's greater than the sum of its parts
By Ted Litchfield published
whip it good Dr. Jones stole my heart in MachineGames' best game to date.

Island of Winds is a folkloric adventure where you meet the grim desolation and strange creatures of 17th century Iceland with witchy powers and 'empathy encounters'
By Ted Litchfield published
news I'm not afraid to empathize with some manner of 1600s troll.

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'
By Ted Litchfield published
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
By Ted Litchfield published
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
By Ted Litchfield published
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'
By Ted Litchfield published
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
By Ted Litchfield published
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
By Ted Litchfield published
news REDengine: Gone but not forgotten.

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
By Ted Litchfield published
news Cratebaby lives.

The best CRPGs to play after Baldur's Gate 3
By Phil Iwaniuk last updated
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
By Ted Litchfield published
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
By Ted Litchfield published
news The union of strength spectacle and enterprise hardware we were all craving.
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