Latest articles by Jeremy Peel
Wild Bastards review: A brilliant splicing of genres deserving of acclaim
Sworn allies Blue Manchu's creative hybrid combines whip-fast shootouts with thoughtful cowboy management.
Meet the utterly sincere Fallout YouTuber who found his calling visiting the series' real-life locations wearing a Vault Boy head
Trip-Boy On the road to Vegas and West Virginia, a struggling sitcom writer found creative freedom among the Fallout community.
Wild Bastards takes every ingredient that made up BioShock's Irrational Games and blends it with cowboy beans
Space cowboys This upcoming roguelike FPS shares the off-kilter character that made Void Bastards memorable.
How to have a good time with Fallout 76 in 2024 (or technically speaking, the year 2105)
Take Me Home If you’re thinking of leaving that vault, it helps to know what you’re stepping into.
'Just the right kind of weird:' How the secret weapon of a /pizza command let EverQuest 2 slice into WoW and accidentally end up topping Pizza Hut on Google
Deep Dish The MMO developers thought up /pizza as a joke, but it became a viral sensation just when they needed it.
With a near-unprecedented official license for its fan server, one of PC gaming's great MMOs has a vibrant future: 'Let it be shouted far and wide: City of Heroes lives again'
Caped Crusade The Homecoming team and NCSoft break down the deal that saved City of Heroes.
Ken Levine's Judas has a little sister, and her name is Void Bastards
System reboot The BioShock auteur has been beaten to the punch.
Mail trucks and millions of dollars: how shareware transformed PC gaming forever
PCG30th We can thank floppy disks in Ziploc bags for the FPS genre as we know it.
Dark Messiah was 'horny, generic, linear, unbalanced' and may have been forgotten by Arkane, but it's inspiring a new generation of developers
footloose Sorceress is the latest game to resurrect the “tavern-brawl” approach to the immersive sim.
Playing a halfling in Baldur's Gate 3 has given me a new, shorter perspective
Eyes Up A shift in camera angle has changed everything.
What Thief has in common with submarine combat, and other tales from iconic but short-lived developer Looking Glass Studios
SOUND GARDEN The great ghost of Looking Glass hovers over Deus Ex, BioShock, Guitar Hero and more.
Colossal Cave review: A piece of gaming history that's lost its shine
Deep down Ever wondered what adventure games were like in the ‘70s?
It's not just you: spam is back
Phish in a barrel Elon Musk and the pandemic are partly to blame.
Neon White achieved in 60 seconds what Dying Light 2 couldn't in 60 hours
light speed A cumbersome open-world format isn’t the best place for greased lightning.
Blade Runner 1997 is still the cyberpunk experience to beat
Real McCoy Aren’t you tired of playing copies of copies?
Publishers should be thanking modders for making their old games playable
Compat simulator Where would Deus Ex be without Kentie's Launcher?
TV showrunners and game developers have become allies at long last
Screen team Mutual respect has been the secret sauce behind a recent slew of great adaptations.
Call of Duty campaigns are in desperate need of new mechanics that stick
Modern bore-fare Why isn’t the flagship singleplayer FPS pushing the genre forward?
The next BioShock should return to the fundamentals laid down by System Shock 2
Science class fiction A true sense of place is well-earned, as Irrational’s first-ever game demonstrates.
Stealth is everywhere in games, but the innovations of Thief have been forgotten
Ghost story Keeping quiet and concealed in shadow is no longer in vogue—which makes Thief a refreshing replay.
Marvel's Midnight Suns has the best amnesiac protagonist since Knights of the Old Republic
Forget-me-not Firaxis imbued its fish-out-of-water hero with unexpected personality.
Ubisoft is failing spectacularly at remaking its most beloved games
Splintered dreams Changing genres and business models get in the way of seeing Sam Fisher again.
Marvel's Midnight Suns review: A brilliant, seductively weird surprise
Ironman mode XCOM has morphed into a brilliant superhero social sim.
