Latest articles by Ted Litchfield
Wild Bastards is channeling its creators' previous work on BioShock with its powers and combos, and even its most normal, 'all rounder' character is a cyborg horse with a lever rifle
gunslingers Instead of Void Bastards' combat avoidance and focus on loot, Wild Bastards is all about creative responses to challenging shooter arenas.
Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 7 tweaked one of the game's most brutal scenes to twist the knife even more
news "Oh sweet, a new bard companion!"
Some of Baldur's Gate 3's new evil endings are so nasty they're hard to watch, and there's a unique variation for each origin character
news Even if you're a bleeding heart softy who can't stomach an evil playthrough, they're worth a watch.
Larian looked to popular homebrew D&D rules for Baldur's Gate 3: 'We were like—okay, we're not crazy, some people do it, so maybe we can try it as well'
News "We literally went through forums looking for homebrew rules."
How MechWarrior 5: Clans is bringing a narrative focus and intricate, handcrafted missions back to the storied series
Mech my day PC Gamer speaks exclusively to Piranha Games about its incoming new BattleTech game.
Risk of Rain 2 creators comment on Gearbox's first DLC without them: 'It's great to see new content for the game, but it's hard to see growing pains of the new team in real time'
Duncan Drummond and Jeffrey Hunt expressed sympathy for the dev team at Gearbox.
'AI is coming for all of us:' Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, and Baldur's Gate voice actor Jennifer Hale weighs in on SAG-AFTRA's games industry strike
AI is proving a major issue in SAG-AFTRA's negotiations with major videogame publishers.
Baldur's Gate 3's beefy patch 7 will finally drop next week
Larian revealed the news at a celebratory PAX West panel.
Andrew C. Greenberg, co-creator of the influential Wizardry series of RPGs, has died
Wizardry was huge in the 1980s, and helped define both Western and Japanese RPGs as we know them.
The indisputable first, third, and sixth-best Fallout games are free to keep on the Epic store this week
I'm just glad we can all agree.
'We are not an extraction shooter, hero shooter, or some competitive tac shooter:' Cyberpunk FPS Defect's secret fourth thing actually has me excited for a PvEvP game for once
I was worried that "Immersive Objective Shooter" was just marketing fluff, but Defect sounds like it has the right stuff.
Microsoft softens language about killing off the Control Panel, but it's still clearly gonna kill off the Control Panel
And you know what? For once I'm not outraged with the Windows UI "innovation" of the moment.
I let out a 'hell yes' when I saw this game stars a worm-fox trapped on a dying world, and an even louder 'yes dude, yes' when the trailer got to the Metal Gear mechs
Uruc made more sense—the most sense, actually—when I saw it was being made by a prog metal guy.
A super fan of Dungeons & Dragons' Githyanki made a Baldur's Gate 3-infused Doom map where you can just hang out and talk to them
news Githmap is a cool little proof of concept, a Doom map that feels more like the beginning of an RPG.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will have challenging puzzles, but also a creative hint system through Indy's camera: 'We don't want you to go to YouTube to look up the solution, because that's immersion-breaking and bad'
news "Players should never get stuck in this game—then we have failed."
After years of speculation about whether Avowed takes place before or after Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian casually revealed it's a sequel through a preview quest poking fun at the events of Pillars 2
Pretty surprising news, given the world-altering ending of Deadfire.
Players seem to like Concord, but its $40 price tag has led to a tepid first weekend on PC
It's not 2016 anymore, and that's a big ask for a hero shooter.
Sekiro was so influential, even the next big BioWare and Obsidian RPGs are adding parries and stagger meters
You won't see me complaining.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle devs say an Indy game 'could never be a shooter, should never be a shooter,' so they're embracing his signature whip, improvised brawls, and disguise-based stealth instead
And it's sounding fun as hell.
After four months, hundreds of leaked gameplay videos, and everybody you know having played it, Valve finally admitted Deadlock exists
It even has a Steam store page now!
After 20 years of patience and negotiations, RPG veteran Brian Fargo managed to buy back a lost haul of memorabilia from Fallout, Baldur's Gate, and more: 'It was like a very exciting version of Storage Wars'
news I would also like a six foot-tall Sarevok poster in my office
Black Myth: Wukong is already one of the fastest-selling games of all time, moving almost as many units in one week as Elden Ring and Cyberpunk did in their first months
Hit the 10 million mark in no time flat.
The best Baldur's Gate 3 builds
Kensai/Mage Why stick with just one class when you could have, like, four?
The new highest-level Steam user in the world spent over half a million dollars to do it, has a 'Discord Kitten,' a $9,000 Counter-Strike gun with a racial slur on it, and potential beef with the guy in third place
news Please make it stop.
According to a creator of the ambitious H2M Modern Warfare 2 mod shuttered by Activision, the multi-billion dollar corporation was worried the free project would disrupt Black Ops 6's sales
"I apologize that we were unable to get H2M properly to you guys and release as we would have liked."
