Jeremy Peel

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How Sonar Shock became the boldest immersive sim of the year: "I don't think a big game developer would have done it this way"

A perverse love for the control schemes of old became Sonar Shock’s USP

Oct. 22, 2024 Jeremy Peel

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How Charles Cecil survived crowdfunding: “I was nervous our fans were going to turn against us”

Despite missteps and the pitiful profits of the late 90s, Revolution Software keeps on turning

Oct. 9, 2024 Jeremy Peel

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Whatever the Fallout TV show does with New Vegas lore, Josh Sawyer doesn’t care: “It was never mine”

The Obsidian design director on Pillars of Eternity II burnout and living with dead projects

April 23, 2024 Jeremy Peel

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Prince Of Persia's creator has seen the series "struggle to find its identity" at Ubisoft, but thinks they've finally found an elegant solution

Jordan Mechner on the sands of time, and making games based in history

April 11, 2024 Jeremy Peel

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Review

Geneforge 2 - Infestation review: bold and great like Baldur's Gate

Laptop-friendly roleplaying for the post-Larian age

March 27, 2024 Jeremy Peel

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Avernum and Geneforge creator Jeff Vogel says "sustainability is tricky" - even when you're a bottom feeder

As he plots his final decade or so of garage RPG development, Vogel is remastering past work

Feb. 7, 2024 Jeremy Peel

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Tim Cain has taken his Fallout and The Outer Worlds dev stories to YouTube - and he's having a great time

The semi-retired Cain tells us that “there is so much about being a game director that is not fun”

Jan. 2, 2024 Jeremy Peel

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Doom At 30: John Romero remembers his seminal FPS so that we don't remember it wrong

The original id Software designer talks Carmack, cacodemons, and his Native American influence

Dec. 10, 2023 Jeremy Peel

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Every Call of Duty campaign ranked

Ging gang ghillie ghillie ghillie ghillie watcha

Nov. 9, 2023 Jeremy Peel

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Review

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 campaign review: the Price is wrong

Warzone but alone

Nov. 9, 2023 Jeremy Peel

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How Slay The Spire saved digital card games from stagnation

"The constraints of the game force you to explore and be creative, and that's good."

Nov. 9, 2023 Jeremy Peel

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If Anthem is the "anti-BioWare game", then James Ohlen is correcting the balance

The hugely influential design director talks Baldur’s Gate, his next RPG, and the abandonment of the BioWare model.

Oct. 9, 2023 Jeremy Peel

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"I'm the least romantic guy": Dragon Age's David Gaider on romanceable companions and his cancelled Planescape sequel

"Would fans of Planescape: Torment want their baby to be touched by the guy who did the romance stuff?"

Sept. 4, 2023 Jeremy Peel

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How the co-creator of Skins became the lead writer on an upcoming AAA open world game

Jamie Brittain has switched tracks to embrace videogames at Maverick Games

Aug. 14, 2023 Jeremy Peel

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How Baldur's Gate 3 morphed Larian Studios into wild new shapes

"If that’s what it takes, that’s what it takes"

Aug. 3, 2023 Jeremy Peel

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Baldur's Gate 3 is about choices, but when the Dark Urge takes over you can only react

Our final impressions ahead of its full 1.0 release

July 11, 2023 Jeremy Peel

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Fallout 76's lead artist is building a creepy single-player open world in The Axis Unseen

“Skyrim was awful to play for the longest time.”

June 16, 2023 Jeremy Peel

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How System Shock 2 made Stephen Kick and Nightdive Studios

“Hey, I’ve got this far. Let’s see how far I can take it.”

May 31, 2023 Jeremy Peel

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System Shock: The oral history of a forward-thinking PC classic

Origin point

May 30, 2023 Jeremy Peel

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Review

System Shock remake review: Nightdive rebuilds the immersive sim mothership just as it was

SHO-damn good

May 29, 2023 Jeremy Peel

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The Jurassic Park: Trespasser team walked where no other developer dared, and paid for it

When Hollywood met Looking Glass

May 2, 2023 Jeremy Peel

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News

Bethesda weren't sure if they wanted Dishonored 3, and so we got Deathloop instead

It was supposed to be a small project!

April 20, 2023 Jeremy Peel

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How Arkane's multiversal Parisian pipedream eventually gave us Deathloop

Arkane founder Raphaël Colantonio on the game that got away

April 19, 2023 Jeremy Peel

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How the Gulf War, Apple's drag-select and "cheesed together" FMVs gave us Command & Conquer

"If we were trying to make it cheesy, it probably wouldn’t have worked"

March 29, 2023 Jeremy Peel

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"The narrative had to be baked into the corridors": Marc Laidlaw on writing Half-Life

Also yeah, he does regret posting that Episode 3 story

March 1, 2023 Jeremy Peel

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