Latest articles by Jeremy Peel
A 'little educational game for middle-schoolers' left DayZ's creators obsessed, inspired, and embroiled in a contentious presidential campaign: 'It's 4.5 years later, and I'm still talking about this story'
News DayZ's former creative director thinks the survival genre needs to take a leaf out of Eco's book.
In a world without Dishonored, I've started to wish for a sequel to Thief 2014
Keeper it up Come back Eidos Montreal, Auldale is forgiven.
Skyrim's version of Radiant AI was developed from a drawing Todd Howard made on a napkin
News "It's actually a napkin story. You don't hear many in real life, but this is a real one."
If the original Grand Theft Auto came out today, we’d call it a roguelike
Thief of time Since the very beginning, permanent loss has been baked into the GTA experience.
Veteran indie dev says success on Steam these days is impossible to predict: 'Why did Balatro take off? You could write a million f***ing essays and none of them will be definitely right'
News "Everything has changed. Everything is harder work."
How Bethesda turned the radioactive lemon that was Fallout 76 into endless lemonade: 'It taught me a lot, as pain does'
Fall over Almost hell, West Virginia.
Fallout and Skyrim show us that talented developers make great games when you leave them alone
Off the radar Attention is the creativity-killer.
Neglecting the mod scene is just 'silly', says dev whose team went from making mods to officially working on Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein: 'It's so short-sighted not to support it'
News Devs and publishers can only benefit from it.
Wyrdsong, the RPG from ex-Bethesda talent, isn't dead—but it's no longer an open world: 'We're down to a skeleton crew'
Port in a storm The next game from the project lead of Fallout 76 has been scaled back amid rough industry seas.
I played the notoriously ratings-board-ravaged Manhunt 2 and was quite glad for the censorship actually
Splinter Skull I’d rather pull off the perfect stealth game takedown without pulling off a man’s goolies in the process.
It's time we talked about how wild it is to be a pedestrian in GTA 5
Fall to succeed GTA is a high concept experiment in tripping over your physics-enabled feet, conducted at the highest level of blockbuster entertainment.
Skyrim was 'personally rebalanced' by producer Jeff Gardiner just 2 weeks before launch: 'Well, I hope this is good'
News The lesson: don't trust AI simulations.
A Skyrim dev broke the game before launch when they made thousands of tiny ants cast individual shadows: 'Why is the game running so slow?'
News Always blame the bugs.
Fallout 76's former project lead says it's still his favourite game he worked on, but the initial reception was demoralising: 'I got yelled at in an Apple Store, I'll never forget'
News Jeff Gardiner oversaw the game's troubled launch, as well as the start of its redemption arc.
How Dishonored and Deathloop led to a mesmerising indie horror game about tending to a monstrous train
Great leveller One level designer’s journey from quality assurance to independent, and decidedly weird, worldbuilding.
I paid money to drive a real car that filled up with fumes when I didn't pump the pedal, and it's all because I loved Jalopy
Ride or die The anti-Formula 1 game taught me to embrace boredom and the history under my nose.
Former Arkane designer says Dishonored 2 cost more to make than Skyrim, and while it didn't meet Bethesda's sales expectations, the series' reputation still 'saved the studio'
News But that didn't stop Bethesda from eventually putting the series on ice.
Fallout's original designer is fine with the direction of the modern games: 'They're both what they are, and a ton of people like it'
News "I'm the last person to want to yuck other people's yums."
A part of my brain will always be dedicated to the time someone in the Vatican pirated Football Manager 2013
Goalie spirit You know it’s not the Pope, but your head goes there all the same.
'Fallout wasn't designed to have other players': Fallout co-creator Tim Cain was extremely wary of turning it into an MMO
News Long before Fallout 76, we almost had Fallout Online, but Cain had serious doubts.
Raf Colantonio can’t stop making first-person immersive sims: 'Weird West was a sidestep'
First love "My people are always going to try to do 10,000 polys for a face."
Fallout's Tim Cain spent 6 years working on defunct MMO WildStar, twice as long as any other game, and thinks that might have something to do with why it failed
News "Games had shifted."
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain hasn't made sequels to his other cult classic RPGs because they didn't sell well: 'You should have bought it'
News "Sometimes gamers need to put their money where their mouth is."
