Latest articles by Jeremy Peel
How Assassin's Creed creator Patrice Déselets became gaming's cool history teacher
Altaïr-nate past "The past is like a fantasy land".
Orcs Must Die! 3 marks the return of a quintessential co-op series to Steam
Green light Time to close an old rift.
How much Deus Ex is in Guardians of the Galaxy?
Uncle Jensen Finding the throughline from Human Revolution to the dev’s Marvel debut.
How Raven Software became kings of COD after vanishing from view
Crows nest As Activision oversees the biggest FPS in the world, Raven Software is the support studio making the magic happen behind the scenes.
Meet the game makers determined to stop development from ruining lives
A new leaf The devs behind The Long Dark, Minit, John Wick Hex, and more, talk about tackling crunch and overwork.
Rockstar made millions selling Scotland's natural export: dark comedy
DNA Tracing A look back through GTA's history, from virtual living city to a lifetime of public notoriety.
Remakes are nice, but Hitman 3's quiet modernisation of old games is better
Dorian Game Like Peter Pan, Hitman 2016 will never age, so long as IO maintains it.
Amid terrible spin-offs and cash grabs, MachineGames is proving licensed games can be great
Cash in How the team behind The Chronicles of Riddick adaptation reversed the reputation of licensed games.
How one man's love for spinning tyres birthed Mudrunner
Glorious mud We chat with Mudrunner's creator about how the wonderfully mucky world of trucks can feel like home.
Assassin's Creed's creator explains why big budget studios have turned their back on social stealth: 'It's money, man'
Social distance "Think it's easy to make Assassin's Creed? Oh boy. We didn't know what it was."
The story of Irrational, the studio that shut down to rediscover its roots
Detective Agency Through the Looking Glass.
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.
