Latest articles by Jeremy Peel
If "good is the new bad" in games, flawed experiments won't have time to grow into future GOTYs
Opinion Opinion | The interesting-but-wonky 7/10 has done us a lot of good in the long run
The games industry might be built on borrowed ideas, but new ones have to come from somewhere – even if Fumito Ueda says "the era of game mechanics is over"
Opinion Opinion | Big-budget developers are reliant on indie innovation to keep us entertained
Today's GTA Online is a compulsive loop of long and mostly uneventful drives, but I'm into it
Opinion Opinion | The cash is counterfeit, the vibes are real
Wheel World review: "By merging Burnout Paradise and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with pedal power, Wheel World arrives somewhere unusual and worth visiting"
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After Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, I'd like to play more famous characters in first-person and ditch the out-of-body butt-cam
Opinion Opinion | If you need to see your protagonist to know you're playing them, then what does that say about the game?
I'm playing Oblivion Remastered as a vampire, and I wouldn't trade my new life for better sleep or a clean conscience
Now Playing Now Playing | Alright, not life, exactly. Un-life
BioShock Infinite “may not have been the thing I wanted, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it wasn’t the thing the audience wanted”: Ken Levine guides us through his entire gameography
Feature Edge: The Collected Works | From immersive-sim innovation, through undersea peril, and onto new beginnings back out in space, Ken Levine talks through his impressive and iconic gaming portfolio in his own words
The Making of Baldur's Gate 3: "We really wanted to make it so that even if you don't know D&D or Baldur's Gate, you would still have exciting choices as a player"
Feature Feature | Edge Magazine: Larian fought with cinematics, embassies and the expectations of BioWare fans to make the RPG of the decade
Become a "fierce berserker" ghoul in Fallout 76 and you can KO a Mirelurk Queen with a single punch
Preview Hands-on preview | Darling, you're positively radiant – you're glowing: we transform into a ghoul in Fallout 76, and report back from the harrowing (complimentary) experience
Stalker: Shadow of Chornobyl isn't the mind-bending prospect it once was, but that’s only because we have it so good
The emergent has become the everyday, and shooters are all the better for it
I hope the cars in Mafia: The Old Country are so slow they go backwards
Opinion Opinion | Underpowered vehicles are just one way in which Mafia has always found magic in mundanity
Fallout 76 just got bigger to make way for an extra vault, 12 new quests, and more Vault-Tec scheming
Preview Preview | With the new Skyline Valley update, the West Virginia map gets bigger. Could Washington DC be next?
You'll be able to play as a ghoul in Fallout 76 early next year and channel your inner Walton Goggins from the Fallout TV show
Interview Here's how becoming a playable ghoul is going to work in Fallout 76
Fallout 76's new boardwalk empire shows just how far it's walked since 2018
Interview Interview | Atlantic City is a semi-hostile holiday spot for the millions who love the West Virginian wasteland
Here's how a secluded Polish studio was called upon for The Witcher Remake, Baldur's Gate 3, and Divinity 2
Interview Interview | Fool's Theory's Jakub Rokosz talks old friends, new experiences, and finding a home in Bielsko-Biała
Helldivers 2 lights the way for AAA – by rejecting its norms
Opinion Opinion | How to win friends and influence people by embracing friendly fire
How the war began – the making of Call of Duty
Feature Interview | The story of Call of Duty begins with one of its fiercest rivals – here, Retro Gamer goes deep into the history of an FPS dynasty
10 FPS games that left the rest of the genre scrambling to keep up
Opinion Holiday Long Read | Meet the FPS gamechangers that really defined the genre as we know it now
Before Baldur's Gate 3, these games made D&D's Forgotten Realms a fixture on PlayStation
Feature Play Magazine exhumes the best PlayStation games that incorporated one iconic D&D setting over the years
The 5 most impressive yet subtle GTA 5 innovations open world games (and beyond) are only just catching up to
GRAND THEFT ADVENT Grand Theft Advent | The lessons the games industry is still learning from 2013's biggest hit
An exploration of the original Assassin's Creed, an overture rooted in method acting
On the Radar On the Radar | Remembering the game that started it all
Revisiting X-Com UFO Defense, the classic strategy game that helped to kickstart a genre
Feature What did Firaxis leave behind when adapting alien-invasion strategy for the modern world?
Suicide Squad's lacklustre reveal is a symptom of a widespread disease in AAA
OPINION Opinion | The big-budget video game model is now too bloated to keep pace with the public mood
