Latest articles by Jeremy Peel
We almost got a third-person horror Call of Duty set in Vietnam with 'stuff you've never seen before', but instead we just got more Modern Warfare
News Sledgehammer's first game was killed so Modern Warfare 3 could be finished.
Kevin Spacey got 'a little weird' on the set of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: 'We all had to fake laugh'
News Spacey played the villainous CEO of the Atlas Corporation.
Clockwork Revolution dev InXile worked on a Wasteland VR survival game with DayZ's former director—until Xbox cancelled it
Given the Booty "Microsoft wasn't hot on VR."
A roguelike RPG companion betrayed me so badly that I manipulated cloud saves across two PCs to cheat death and throw him down a well
Oh well Select spoilers for Sunless Skies follow. Though they’ll ensure you avoid my fate.
Former DayZ lead thinks survival games should let players tinker with every variable: 'Here's the keys. Have fun'
News If a game's going to last, it should let players fiddle with everything.
As the bots take over Verdansk, Warzone and Stalker are beginning to meld in my brain
Closing venn circle Shadow of Chernobyl is a crumbling, haunting pre-echo of COD's battle royale.
How to survive as an indie developer for 20 years
Staying alive "Size Five has always just plodded along without a colossal success, which is fine by me. I'm still here."
I've swapped modern live service games for a browser game that's been running since 2009
Fall in I’ve found my new favourite book, only it’s interactive and I choose where it goes, if the constables will let me.
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.
