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

Indie disguised as a priest
A part of my brain will always be dedicated to the time someone in the Vatican pirated Football Manager 2013

By Jeremy Peel Published

Goalie spirit You know it’s not the Pope, but your head goes there all the same.

Goalie spirit
Fallout 25th anniversary
'Fallout wasn't designed to have other players': Fallout co-creator Tim Cain was extremely wary of turning it into an MMO

By Fraser Brown Published

News Long before Fallout 76, we almost had Fallout Online, but Cain had serious doubts.

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A retro-futuristic robot does his rounds in WolfEye Studio's next game, a cannon of some sort grafted to his arm.
Raf Colantonio can’t stop making first-person immersive sims: 'Weird West was a sidestep'

By Jeremy Peel Published

First love "My people are always going to try to do 10,000 polys for a face."

First love
WildStar Chua
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

By Fraser Brown Published

News "Games had shifted."

News
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'

By Fraser Brown Published

News "Sometimes gamers need to put their money where their mouth is."

News
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Deus Ex director Warren Spector thinks that 'if someone made Deus Ex today it might be perceived as a documentary,' so if he made a new one it would be pretty different

By Fraser Brown Published

News Please make a new one.

News
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Warren Spector found working on his cancelled Half-Life episode 'a little frustrating', but he'll be 'forever grateful' to Valve for keeping his studio alive

By Fraser Brown Published

News Junction Point's project was the first of two attempts to set an episode in Ravenholm.

News
Morrigan, the Witch of the Wilds, in Dragon Age: Origins
The six best Dragon Age companions ever

By Robin Valentine Published

FRIEND GAME A snarky witch, a beardless dwarf, and a talking statue walk into Ferelden...

FRIEND GAME
Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl art
Why Stalker: Shadow of Chornobyl's difficulty modes have divided players for over a decade

By Jeremy Peel Published

In the Zone Please let me get in my Zone.

In the Zone
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One of the biggest names in immersive sims reckons they're easier to sell if you call them something else, but one day they'll be 'invading every genre'

By Fraser Brown Published

News To be fair, they're pretty hard to explain.

News
Redfall wallpaper detail - image of a vampire
Arkane's founder left because Bethesda 'did not want to do the kind of games that we wanted to make', and that's how it ended up with Redfall

By Fraser Brown Published

News Redfall was a significant departure for Arkane, and culminated in the closure of the Arkane Austin studio.

News
Redfall concept art - closeup of two player characters standing side by side
Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was a 'dumb move', says founder and former president

By Fraser Brown Published

News "It's obvious that Arkane Austin was a very special group of people that have made some cool things and that could pull it off again."

News
Shots from XCOM's E3 reveal
Exploring the 'twisted road' of Irrational's doomed XCOM game—from fighting aliens 'the size of entire city blocks' to a multiplayer mode where you could be the aliens

By Jeremy Peel Published

Enemy unknown Inside the many promising, abortive concepts the BioShock developer came up with.

Enemy unknown
Epic Mickey
Warren Spector's Disney platformer finally came to PC, so where's the Deus Ex in Epic Mickey?

By Jeremy Peel Published

Disney dystopia The moody, magic-soaked adaptation had a PC sensibility even when it was Wii exclusive.

Disney dystopia
Power armour
'God it was gutting' to see the Fallout fanbase response, says Fallout Tactics lead: 'fervent and passionate and often horribly toxic'

By Rich Stanton Published

news "We should have just never looked."

news
Power armour helmet
The making of Fallout Tactics: 'I sound like I'm down on it now, but I still love what we made'

By Jeremy Peel Published

band of brothers A green team with huge ambitions—what could possibly go wrong?

band of brothers
Power armour
A deep South Fallout sequel with a 'guerilla warfare' vibe was planned, but then Interplay bit the dust

By Rich Stanton Published

news Rasslin' them radscorpions.

news
A deathclaw from Fallout 4 clings to the edges of its cage, ready to do battle.
The lead on one of Fallout's least-loved entries says over-enthusiasm led to its hated hairy deathclaws: 'At the time, I know it was sacrilege'

By Rich Stanton Published

news But there are good reasons too!

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Concept art from Fallout Tactics, showing a Brotherhood trooper in dark power armour.
Fallout Tactics lead on exploring the 'bigotry' of the Brotherhood of Steel long before Bethesda got there: 'I really enjoyed killing off the nobility of them'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Fallout Tactics had some big ideas even if it didn't make good on all of them.

News
An image of a watercolour still from Fallout Tactics, wherein a lecturer discusses power armour with a group of steel recruits.
Fallout Tactics' lead designer tips his hat to Bethesda for succeeding where they failed: 'It can be done. You just need to be a multinational with more than 18 months'

By Harvey Randall Published

News "Our approach was just terrible."

News
Power armour helmet
What it feels like to have your Fallout game declared non-canon by Todd Howard: 'It sucked'

By Fraser Brown Published

News The actual third game in the series didn't get much love from Bethesda.

News
Wild Bastards key art
Wild Bastards review: A brilliant splicing of genres deserving of acclaim

By Jeremy Peel Published

Sworn allies Blue Manchu's creative hybrid combines whip-fast shootouts with thoughtful cowboy management.

Sworn allies
Road Chippin' Fallout travel show
Meet the utterly sincere Fallout YouTuber who found his calling visiting the series' real-life locations wearing a Vault Boy head

By Jeremy Peel Published

Trip-Boy On the road to Vegas and West Virginia, a struggling sitcom writer found creative freedom among the Fallout community.

Trip-Boy
The crew in their cockpit
Wild Bastards takes every ingredient that made up BioShock's Irrational Games and blends it with cowboy beans

By Jeremy Peel Published

Space cowboys This upcoming roguelike FPS shares the off-kilter character that made Void Bastards memorable.

Space cowboys
Fallout 76
How to have a good time with Fallout 76 in 2024 (or technically speaking, the year 2105)

By Jeremy Peel Published

Take Me Home If you’re thinking of leaving that vault, it helps to know what you’re stepping into.

Take Me Home
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