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

Kevin Spacey got 'a little weird' on the set of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: 'We all had to fake laugh'

By Fraser Brown Published 28 August 25

News Spacey played the villainous CEO of the Atlas Corporation.

News

Clockwork Revolution dev InXile worked on a Wasteland VR survival game with DayZ's former director—until Xbox cancelled it

By Jeremy Peel Published 16 August 25

Given the Booty "Microsoft wasn't hot on VR."

Given the Booty

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

By Jeremy Peel Published 16 August 25

Oh well Select spoilers for Sunless Skies follow. Though they’ll ensure you avoid my fate.

Oh well

DayZ Frostline screen: Some guy with a baseball bat getting ready to do a Casino on some other guy wearing a toque

Former DayZ lead thinks survival games should let players tinker with every variable: 'Here's the keys. Have fun'

By Fraser Brown Published 13 August 25

News If a game's going to last, it should let players fiddle with everything.

News

As the bots take over Verdansk, Warzone and Stalker are beginning to meld in my brain

By Jeremy Peel Published 9 August 25

Closing venn circle Shadow of Chernobyl is a crumbling, haunting pre-echo of COD's battle royale.

Closing venn circle

How to survive as an indie developer for 20 years

By Jeremy Peel Published 23 July 25

Staying alive "Size Five has always just plodded along without a colossal success, which is fine by me. I'm still here."

Staying alive

I've swapped modern live service games for a browser game that's been running since 2009

By Jeremy Peel Published 12 July 25

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.

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Fall in

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'

By Fraser Brown Published 4 July 25

News DayZ's former creative director thinks the survival genre needs to take a leaf out of Eco's book.

News

In a world without Dishonored, I've started to wish for a sequel to Thief 2014

By Jeremy Peel Published 21 June 25

Keeper it up Come back Eidos Montreal, Auldale is forgiven.

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Keeper it up

Skyrim's version of Radiant AI was developed from a drawing Todd Howard made on a napkin

By Fraser Brown Published 4 June 25

News "It's actually a napkin story. You don't hear many in real life, but this is a real one."

News

GTA would have been considered a roguelike

If the original Grand Theft Auto came out today, we’d call it a roguelike

By Jeremy Peel Published 17 May 25

Thief of time Since the very beginning, permanent loss has been baked into the GTA experience.

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Thief of time

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'

By Fraser Brown Published 16 May 25

News "Everything has changed. Everything is harder work."

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News

How Bethesda turned the radioactive lemon that was Fallout 76 into endless lemonade: 'It taught me a lot, as pain does'

By Jeremy Peel Published 14 April 25

Fall over Almost hell, West Virginia.

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Fall over

Fallout and Skyrim show us that talented developers make great games when you leave them alone

By Jeremy Peel Published 13 April 25

Off the radar Attention is the creativity-killer.

Off the radar

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'

By Fraser Brown Published 3 April 25

News Devs and publishers can only benefit from it.

News

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'

By Jeremy Peel Published 16 March 25

Port in a storm The next game from the project lead of Fallout 76 has been scaled back amid rough industry seas.

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Port in a storm

I played the notoriously ratings-board-ravaged Manhunt 2 and was quite glad for the censorship actually

By Jeremy Peel Published 15 March 25

Splinter Skull I’d rather pull off the perfect stealth game takedown without pulling off a man’s goolies in the process.

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Splinter Skull

It's time we talked about how wild it is to be a pedestrian in GTA 5

By Jeremy Peel Published 22 February 25

Fall to succeed GTA is a high concept experiment in tripping over your physics-enabled feet, conducted at the highest level of blockbuster entertainment.

Fall to succeed