Jeremy Peel

Nighthawks on Steam The secret is out. Vampires have been exposed to the world… and you’re one of them. Seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, ...

What is Nighthawks? It's a vampire game where the vampires have been exposed to the world... but it's also different in tone from most. Vampire games tend to be cold and cynical, but this time, being a light in the darkness can be the real adventure.

store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...

“It’s a roundtable interview”

There’s a new CMS

October 11th. Fifteen years ago today I had my first day of work with a little game dev team in Austin, Texas called Arkane Studios. They were just gearing up full production on a new game in a new IP, called Dishonored.

I was terrified. 1/24

It's harder than it ought to be to do work you love, even when people demonstrably want it <3

I don't think I could afford to do it if I wasn't also doing consultancy, for sure.

Yeah, I'd like to think that when I write an in-depth interview profile on Jeff Vogel or Size Five or Failbetter, that moves the needle for them in some way - simply because there's room to make a proper argument for why a studio is doing something unique and so deserves somebody's limited time.

A combination of things I reckon. The busiest time of year for AAA, which provides the clicks sites depend on not to be closed down. Exponentially more indies. There's serious understaffing and freelance underfunding at major outlets too - moreso than I remember at any point previously in my career.

Call of Duty was saved against the odds when Infinity Ward imploded Modern Warfare 3 co-director Glen Schofield tells the dramatic story of its making first-hand.

I talked to Glen Schofield about maybe the most fascinating and volatile moment of FPS history - when he took the reins of the world's most anticipated game amid the breakdown of Infinity Ward. www.pcgamer.com/games/call-o...

Musicals are Halloween, unnerving and invisible ones doubly so.

No writer or editor chose to rebuild the journalism industry around an internet advertising model. It's made the career financially unviable for a lot of people. But here we are, and holding their nose through Prime Day is one of the few ways outlets get to fund the work they're proud of *sad shrug*

If you're disgusted by all media outlets redirecting their coverage efforts toward Prime Day, please ask the human race to stop clicking on keyboard deals and start clicking on journalism instead. I promise you everyone wants to be doing the latter.

I love this from @kierongillen.bsky.social on turning 50 at Center Parks. Sometimes I suspect Rock Paper Shotgun was set up simply because they couldn't help it. buttondown.com/KieronGillen...

Black Ops 2, Treyarch's unexpectedly experimental shooter, still surprises and discomforts – though not always intentionally Feature | Revisiting Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, the FPS that turned the sub-series into a vital pillar for Activision's shooter behemoth

Black Ops 2 is legitimately fascinating - quietly non-linear, unbelievably histrionic, tangled in uncomfortable real-world American history. This, for @edgemagazine.bsky.social, was my best effort to critically reckon with a clumsy yet perenially popular shooter. www.gamesradar.com/games/call-o...

I didn’t spot this til now Graham - fantastic news!

Inside the astonishing development of 1999's The Wheel of Time FPS: 'The fact that we shipped anything at all is kind of a miracle' "I never played my games after they were done, but this one I played forever because it was so fun."

For this week's PC Gamer column, I spoke to former gamedev and current author Glen Dahlgren about the extraordinary development of 1999's The Wheel of Time. Strap yourself in, it's a wild ride. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/in...

When it comes to beats, Dan the Automator cannot be beat

Earth Must Die on Steam These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...

If you enjoy Size Five and want to see it survive what is a very iffy time for the Games Industry, please do three things with your Saturday:

✅ Wishlist EARTH MUST DIE
✅ Buy a game on sale
✅ Share these links where you can

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store.steampowered.com/dev/sizefive

All the Size Five games are on sale! So yeah, if at least 349 of you could buy Lair Of The Clockwork God at a wildly reasonable 65% off and give it a positive review, that'd be *lovely*.
And while you're there, may as well buy all the others for a few quid more!

store.steampowered.com/dev/sizefive

I haven’t had Game Pass for a long time and was truly amazed to see the figure on Ultimate now. I guess I’d assumed people were overreacting because gamers + internet. But no, it’s almost a smartphone priced sub.

Promo art for upcoming Fallout 76 expansion Burning Springs, featuring a pistol-toting Walton Goggins as The Ghoul.

Walton Goggins is heading to Ohio, which will soon be showing up in Fallout 76. Subscribers get the lowdown on The Peel Perspective! www.patreon.com/posts/140187...

New Mafia is only 38gb? Damn those Sicilian suits are slimming

Damn, what an angle.

The Ten Principles of Good Game Design ...

“Good game design is wasteful. A great game has side paths most players will ignore, grace notes that are unnecessary, and other demonstrations of useless care.” From @brunodias.bsky.social azhdarchid.com/the-ten-prin...

Promo art for upcoming Fallout 76 expansion Burning Springs, featuring a pistol-toting Walton Goggins as The Ghoul.

Walton Goggins is heading to Ohio, which will soon be showing up in Fallout 76. Subscribers get the lowdown on The Peel Perspective! www.patreon.com/posts/140187...

November marks my 20th year on the magazine. I think that deserves a self-congratulatory pat on the back.
For every like this receives I'll try and recall one anecdote (interesting or otherwise) about my time on the mag.
(this is one of my favourite covers by armyoftrolls)

September '25 newsletter: Dissed honor | The Peel Perspective Get more from The Peel Perspective on Patreon

The latest Peel Perspective newsletter is live for subscribers! "I miss the concise formats of Official PlayStation Magazine. The internet has no word limit, and so it’s rare to find that kind of brevity online." www.patreon.com/posts/140086...

Can I explain Black Ops lore to you in time for the new sequel? Well: I'll try There's a maximum amount of sense this series can make, and we'll endeavour to reach that threshold together.

Year(s) the game takes place: 1945-1968
Released: 2010
Is Gary Oldman real? It’s complicated
Is Fidel Castro real? No www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ca...

I've started it and it's already made me laugh.

Hey, if it ain't broke and you don't count the broken images!