Latest articles by Jeremy Peel
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'
Asset's creed Is that developer actually lazy for leaning on an old reload animation, or are they simply smart?
Former Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director says Ubisoft 'became very allergic' to new games, which contributed to a 'talent drain'
News Alex Hutchinson diagnoses the downward trajectory of his former employer.
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'
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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'
News We had to wait another year for a proper high seas adventure.
Ubisoft made another Avatar game the world has forgotten about, so I opened Pandora’s boxed copy and dropped into the jungle
I'm blue, dabadee It's as if Apocalypse Now was made in 10 months rather than 10 years.
Any remake of GTA 4 must preserve its minigames and misery
Go bowling Niko Bellic’s would-be redemption story is a dart to the heart.
Nearly 20 years ago, the makers of Age of Empires tried to make a Halo MMO, and then the studio closed: 'I still feel like no-one has really done the action MMO I see in my mind'
News The audacious quest ended all the way back in 2008 after five years of development.
Counterfeit Monkey is so magnificent a text adventure that I'm convinced the puzzle genre went wrong when it added graphics
Word up The power of the written word can quite literally change nations in this sci-fi masterpiece.
Roguelite city builder Super Fantasy Kingdom has been a big success, and now its developer can afford a luxury he's always dreamed of: 'A real winter jacket'
News At least he's cosy now.
The likelihood of another Battlefield: Bad Company is slim, but its former lead designer thinks Battlefield boss Vince Zampella could make it happen: 'He knows his sh*t'
News "I would like to play it and see what they wind up doing."
The 9 best quests in Fallout history
fall in Want the best Fallout has to offer? Start here.
Battlefield liked to 'take the p*ss' out of Call of Duty, but it was a 'very healthy rivalry' that pushed DICE to do its own thing
News "You push yourself to do stuff maybe you wouldn't do if they were not there."
Funcom may have closed down Metal: Hellsinger studio The Outsiders, but its co-founder and Battlefield vet David Goldfarb says it's not over yet: 'We're working on the 2.0 version of The Outsiders, so we're not dead'
News Down but not out.
The best characters in Fallout
nuclear family We get on with these Fallout characters like a world on fire.
I've played every Call of Duty: Black Ops game, and will now attempt the impossible: Explaining all of the lore so you can understand Black Ops 7
BLOP drop There's a maximum amount of sense this series can make, and we'll endeavour to reach that threshold together.
The life and death of Call of Duty's most controversial mechanic, the boost jump: 'They almost threw me out of the room'
High life How CoD embraced the future, before backlash brought it back down to earth.
GTA: San Andreas is full of legends, and it's got me chasing ghost ships and urban myths like a schoolkid in 2004
The horror There's a magic in the myths that wikis have taken from us.
When Irrational picked a new writer for BioShock Infinite, it didn't realise he was in the next room, already working at the studio
News Serendipity.
The Outer Worlds 2's senior narrative designer is 'really happy' if you miss out on major characters with 'thousands of lines of dialogue'
News "We're really making a game that you can play multiple times and have a very different experience."
Battlefield had a messy predecessor, Codename Eagle, that predates even DICE’s involvement in the series
Roll of the dice The millennium-era reviews make for funny and illuminating reading.
Call of Duty was saved against the odds when Infinity Ward imploded
Make or break Modern Warfare 3 co-director Glen Schofield tells the dramatic story of its making first-hand.
X-COM's creator wants to make a sequel to his spiritual successor, despite it being a 'very difficult project'
News Phoenix Point could rise again.
The creator of X-COM isn't worried about old fans not vibing with his new game: 'It's successful for people who have maybe not played any strategy at all'
News There's little overlap between X-COM and Chip 'N Clawz.
