Latest articles by Jeremy Peel
How XCOM's Julian Gollop improved on the board games he loved as a kid
Addicted to chaos "I saw computer games as a way of liberating players from the tedium."
How Obsidian built its reputation for masterful, yet buggy, RPGs
Let down A look through the history of one of gaming's largest independent developers.
How Overcooked's tiny team took over our living rooms
Small Fry How many cooks do you need in a kitchen?
Watch Dogs Legion's multiplayer is a profound disappointment
Hacked up But private matchmaking could fix it.
How id Software reclaimed its history by losing its leaders
Comeback Some egos had to be shed.
Cold War's Gun Game is a high speed arms race for the old timers
Cold Fashioned There’s still nothing else like the leaderboard rivalry in this classic COD mode.
Warzone in Cold War: Season 2 is two games for the price of none
Different Strikes Resurrection is the theme that links the two disparate worlds of Rebirth Island and Verdansk.
Outbreak is the Call of Duty Zombies mode we need right now
FRIENDLY WAVE The new Cold War co-op mode is a welcome antidote to lockdown isolation.
Cyberpunk 2077 is no GTA, but GTA 2 was a cyberpunk game
Bad pharma Forget Merryweather and the FIB—meet the megacorps and clone manufacturers.
What links Thomas Was Alone to an ancient solo card game?
stack the deck Mike Bithell on tutorials, cards, and not comparing your game to Mass Effect.
Five game mechanics legally protected by the companies that made them
Patent Zero Science fiction taught us that clones are cool, but the lawyers disagree.
How Treyarch escaped Infinity Ward's shadow
Call to Action The rise of Call of Duty's second studio.
Warzone has streamlined battle royale to the point of total transformation
Born again With its latest map, Warzone lands further than ever from the genre that spawned it.
The grim history of Warzone's Rebirth Island
Vanishing point The real Rebirth Island was home to secret Cold War horrors, until it disappeared from the map.
Call of Duty: Warzone has squandered the intrigue of Modern Warfare's plot
Victor royale Verdansk is no place to tell a proper story.
How the developer of Orcs Must Die! escaped corporate influence
Greener pastures Robot Entertainment has been through a lot to regain its passion for innovation.
How Tim Schafer made Double Fine a creative hotbed
DNA tracing A true indie success story.
How Ultima 7 and Fallout helped shape Weird West, the next immersive sim from Arkane's founder
A new frontier WolfEye Studios is reworking the immersive sim genre for a dark western game.
How an obsession with Ultima 7 led to some of the PC's best RPGs
Divine Inspiration Swen Vincke is determined to put a little bit of Ultima 7 into every game Larian Studios creates.
How Arkane's passion for sims overcame all the odds
Pure magic A journey from cavernous dungeons to abandoned space stations.
How Infinity Ward found its way through no man's land
In the trenches Exploring the lineage of the Call of Duty developer.
