Jeremy Peel
Latest articles by Jeremy Peel
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It's confirmed: Black Ops and Modern Warfare are in the same, tangled Call of Duty universe
By Jeremy Peel published
For Zakhaev A campaign cameo clinches it—Black Ops and Modern Warfare share a universe.
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What Call of Duty gets right and wrong about East Berlin
By Jeremy Peel published
Spy story A historic Tripadvisor review of Black Ops’ GDR tour.
![A Black Ops enemy glued to a grenade.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JhXKRr94RU3uaXTKUskxgR-320-80.jpg)
Using enemies as shields fundamentally changes Call of Duty, while harking back to its crueller past
By Jeremy Peel published
Close shave It's a cold new mechanic in Black Ops - Cold War.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War's most powerful historical reference is Toy Story
By Jeremy Peel published
Black sheep Activision's story of plastic army men is familiar somehow.
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Watch Dogs Legion's easter eggs are nice, but Ubisoft should make a new Driver game
By Jeremy Peel published
Floor it Wake up, Tanner.
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There's no need for an Xbox Series X when you've got a defunct Steam Link
By Jeremy Peel published
Hey listen A discontinued device makes the perfect new console.
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From Half-Life to Borderlands: the rise of Gearbox Software
By Jeremy Peel published
Grinding gears How Gearbox invented the loot-shooter.
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The weirdest cameos in Call of Duty, ranked
By Jeremy Peel published
Castro call Tinker, tailor, soldier, dictator.
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XCOM 2’s problems inspired a whole other tactics game
By Jeremy Peel published
Wizard chess Tactical Breach Wizards was built from complaints about the Firaxis sequel.
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Call of Duty Cold War should bring back Black Ops II's unlikely RTS missions
By Jeremy Peel published
COD & Conquer Remember when COD turned into Command & Conquer: Renegade?
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Colorado's hellish knot of tangled highways comes to American Truck Simulator on November 12
By Jeremy Peel published
news Concrete Spaghetti.
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Oh, weird: the Destiny 2 I know is about to be locked away
By Jeremy Peel published
Lost worlds Can you imagine Halo’s Silent Cartographer suddenly becoming unplayable?
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Low Poly Animals is a Twitter account dedicated to man's wonkiest friend
By Jeremy Peel published
Wrong angle They're triangling their best.
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The hardest games on PC
By Andy Kelly published
Tough nuts Challenge yourself with these punishing PC games.
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Hold on, Doom Eternal's notorious Marauder was hiding in Quake this whole time?
By Jeremy Peel published
Horny encounter I already fought this guy in 1996.
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Watch Dogs: Legion's best writing is hidden in a radio station
By Jeremy Peel published
Talk back "Remember when you could get away with prank calls without people coming around to your house to beat the shit out of you?"
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Old School Runescape had 157,445 concurrent players at the weekend, breaking its record
By Jeremy Peel published
News The 2007 build of the MMO has, weirdly, never been more popular.
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Rainbow Six Quarantine’s prototype was a zero-g space station puzzler
By Jeremy Peel published
news The claustrophobic alien shooter was once a little more peaceful.
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Among Us works because it's a board game in disguise
By Jeremy Peel published
Party grim Players make the rules in the social Twitch sensation, not distant designers.
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Tracing the evolution of Crytek, from Far Cry to Hunt: Showdown
By Jeremy Peel published
DNA Tracing How Crytek's latest game harks back to its past.
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Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods – Part One review
By Jeremy Peel published
Vicious cycle Hell boils over.
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Baldur's Gate 3 taps into the unique PC gaming thrill of improvised weapons
By Jeremy Peel published
Fling it With the right mindset, anything can be a weapon.
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Every type of Fall Guy, classified
By Jeremy Peel published
Fall collection After the Fall, we all changed.
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