Jeremy Peel

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Jeremy Peel is an award-nominated freelance journalist who has been writing and editing for PC Gamer over the past several years. His greatest success during that period was a pandemic article called "Every type of Fall Guy, classified", which kept the lights on at PCG for at least a week. He’s rested on his laurels ever since, indulging his love for ultra-deep, story-driven simulations by submitting monthly interviews with the designers behind Fallout, Dishonored and Deus Ex. He's also written columns on the likes of Jalopy, the ramshackle car game. You can find him on Patreon as The Peel Perspective.

Latest articles by Jeremy Peel

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Dishonored director Harvey Smith thinks there's still room for big-budget immersive sims: 'When it really comes together and it has the budget behind it and the team, you end up with Deus Ex or Dishonored'

By Fraser Brown Published

News And now he's going to have to duke it out with Thief designer Randy Smith Evergreen.

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Thief Deadly Shadows concept art
Thief designer Randy Smith Evergreen refused to work for Xbox because it would be like 'walking past some stakes with human skulls on them' and pretending 'it's probably fine in this direction'

By Jeremy Peel Published

No green light The immersive sim will find a way outside of AAA.

No green light
GTA London 1961
GTA: London 1961 is full of cockney innuendo and harder than a bobby’s helmet

By Jeremy Peel Published

Capital punishment In your end-o.

Capital punishment
Garret from Thief.
Thief designer says that the immersive sim audience is too small for AAA games: 'There's quite a few of us who think the way to do it is be III or AA'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Immersive sims should get out of the AAA arms race.

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News
Game of Thrones RPG
Stop waiting for the Game of Thrones CRPG of your dreams and settle for the pleasant eurojank compromise instead

By Jeremy Peel Published

House of the Dragon Age It's rough, dated and still probably one of the better GoT games.

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House of the Dragon Age
Manfred clenching his fists
Dragon Age's former lead writer thinks the series is probably dead, but he'd be happy to take it off EA's hands and 'go somewhere dark and dangerous' with it

By Fraser Brown Published

News Rescue mission.

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News
Taash stares, sorrowfully, off the screen in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
David Gaider will never play Dragon Age: The Veilguard because he'd be 'wincing' the whole time: 'EA really did a number on them in terms of setting them up to fail'

By Fraser Brown Published

News "I've heard enough about it. I almost feel like I've played it."

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News
crossfireX
Crossfire is actually the second singleplayer shooter named after Korea’s Counter-Strike—and the last one was made by Remedy

By Jeremy Peel Published

Max pain But you might struggle to stay A Wake for it.

Max pain
Morrigan from Dragon Age next to a headshot of David Gaider
Dragon Age setting creator David Gaider is pitching a heist RPG that's 'make or break' for his studio

By Jeremy Peel Published

In the airship Publishers are enthusiastic, but they're not yet stumping up the funds.

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In the airship
An image of Planescape: Torment showing The Nameless One screaming
Planescape: Torment 2 was greenlit by Wizards of the Coast, 'they were really into what we were doing', but it refused to fund the sequel, and nobody else was interested

By Fraser Brown Published

News We were robbed of another planar adventure.

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Baldur's Gate 3 - Withers looking at the camera
BioWare's co-founder fought to make Baldur's Gate 3 for over a decade, then Larian did it instead: 'I don't really get jealous'

By Jeremy Peel Published

Candlekeepin' on Just as there were multiple Bhaalspawn, there was never really just one Baldur's Gate 3.

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Candlekeepin' on
An image of Keir Starmer next to a character from Prime Monster
As the UK plunges once more into political chaos, I’ve found the roguelike deckbuilder that can help me process it

By Jeremy Peel Published

Dismembered Prime Monster is a smartly satirical take on the antics of British MPs

Dismembered
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One of BioShock's directors has been questioning the point of one of its key systems: 'I don't care about how many different plasmids I have'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Imsim legend Jonathan Chey's new game is exploring a solution to plasmid favouritism.

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News
Godzone 6 pre-alpha screens
Immersive sim sickos rejoice: the makers of Void Bastards are creating their most choice-driven game to date in Godzone 6

By Jeremy Peel Published

Freak out Build a grotesque mutant and then play to their hideous strengths in a highly-detailed sci-fi dungeon.

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Freak out
Marathon: A punk Vandal sitting in a chair hold her head up with her left hand.
Marathon (1994) and Marathon (2026) are at opposite ends of FPS history, but playing them at the same time I'm finding they have a lot in common, despite their vast differences

By Jeremy Peel Published

Closer to God Maximum lore inhalation.

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Closer to God
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Free Kit Frenzy rids Marathon of most of its stress, but risks tossing out tension and teamwork too

By Jeremy Peel Published

DRY RUN Does Bungie’s battle royale-style experiment sacrifice too many of the extraction shooter’s best qualities?

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DRY RUN
Rico from Just Cause skydiving off an exploding tower
Avalanche's cancelled AionGuard 'would have been Crimson Desert' but the publisher 'broke up with us on a text message'

By Jeremy Peel Published

news "We had everything that I've seen from Crimson Desert in the plans for that game."

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Samson screenshot
Open world crime game Samson had to be pared back mid-development, which led to its unusual structure: 'It's become more unique'

By Jeremy Peel Published

Endurance run After "the reality of the industry hit," the studio pivoted to a new structure and fist-focused combat.

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Endurance run
Flawless victory was never on the cards for eurojank, but I honestly can't tell if it won or lost

By Jeremy Peel Published

Buggy Beauty An ode to the wonky yet wonderful projects of yesteryear, and their modern successors.

Buggy Beauty
2012's Syndicate FPS
Were PC gamers right to take against Syndicate's FPS reboot? Only one man with an ancient disc copy can find out

By Jeremy Peel Published

Corp warp Imagine a world with ever-so-slightly fewer cyberpunk games. Welcome to 2012.

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Corp warp
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Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff'

By Jeremy Peel Published

Asset's creed Is that developer actually lazy for leaning on an old reload animation, or are they simply smart?

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Asset's creed
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Former Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director says Ubisoft 'became very allergic' to new games, which contributed to a 'talent drain'

By Fraser Brown Published

News Alex Hutchinson diagnoses the downward trajectory of his former employer.

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News
Captain
The director of the first Assassin's Creed with naval battles found it 'bizarre' to watch Skull and Bones' agonisingly long development, because it was 'essentially the same stuff re-shipping 14 years after we made it'

By Fraser Brown Published

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Assassin's Creed 3's greatest feature was pushed to the side until Black Flag because Ubisoft was worried that 'the tech wouldn't work'

By Fraser Brown Published

News We had to wait another year for a proper high seas adventure.

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Avatar: The Game
Ubisoft made another Avatar game the world has forgotten about, so I opened Pandora’s boxed copy and dropped into the jungle

By Jeremy Peel Published

I'm blue, dabadee It's as if Apocalypse Now was made in 10 months rather than 10 years.

I'm blue, dabadee
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