Jeremy Peel

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Jeremy is a freelance editor and writer with a decade’s experience across publications like GamesRadar, Rock Paper Shotgun, PC Gamer and Edge. He specialises in features and interviews, and gets a special kick out of meeting the word count exactly. He missed the golden age of magazines, so is making up for lost time while maintaining a healthy modern guilt over the paper waste. Jeremy was once told off by the director of Dishonored 2 for not having played Dishonored 2, an error he has since corrected.

Latest articles by Jeremy Peel

The best GTA moments: Our explosive Top 100 celebrates the series ahead of GTA 6

By Jeremy Peel Last updated 1 September 26

Best List GTA's tensest heists, funniest moments, strangest secrets, and more – counting down the series' best moments

Best List

GTA 6 might be single-player but the coupled-up life changes everything

By Jeremy Peel Published 28 August 26

Opinion The power of two

Opinion

A ship moving past a submerged statue and a spooky sea in Sunless Sea

Singing sirens, angry gods and cannibalized crews: Sunless Sea is The Odyssey as an RPG

By Jeremy Peel Published 17 August 26

Now Playing My lads would dream of being turned into pigs. That'd be a calm Tuesday for them

Now Playing

Marathon Sentinel shell firing a rifle in the dark

Marathon Season 2 is testing my map knowledge in the most terrifying way: by turning the lights off

By Jeremy Peel Published 18 June 26

Features Now Playing | I played nearly 150 hours of Marathon's first season and it's just as well, because now I can't see a sodding thing

Features

A destroyer from Marathon looking head-on, with a pale blue sky behind

Killing Marathon would be self-sabotage for Sony

By Jeremy Peel Published 15 May 26

Features Opinion | Bungie's shooter is rehabilitating PlayStation's reputation for first-party quality

Features

A screenshot of new Arc Raiders map Riven Tides, set along the coast

I’ve been burned by the new Arc Raiders map, but that’s what happens on a beach holiday

By Jeremy Peel Published 5 May 26

Features Now Playing | Life’s a beach and then you extract

Features

I've given up taking a second weapon into Marathon matches, and you should too

By Jeremy Peel Published 29 April 26

Opinion Opinion | Stop serving unused guns on a platter to your opponents

Opinion

John Carpenter's Toxic Commando is the the Left 4 Dead-like horde shooter I've been waiting for since 2009

By Jeremy Peel Published 1 January 26

Preview Hands-on | How Toxic Commando's incorporation of vehicular tech sets the zombie battlefield apart from competitors

Preview

Fallout 76 screenshot with a GamesRadar On the Radar overlay

Fallout 76 has become a living world that connects every point in the series – within reason

By Jeremy Peel Published 19 December 25

On the Radar | Fallout 76 is evolving alongside the Amazon TV show, but what comes next is a mystery – and that's the point

MMO Games

Key art for Call of Duty Black Ops 2 showing a character sitting in darkness with a handgun, from Edge 353

Black Ops 2, Treyarch's unexpectedly experimental shooter, still surprises and discomforts – though not always intentionally

By Jeremy Peel Published 5 October 25

Features Feature | Revisiting Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, the FPS that turned the sub-series into a vital pillar for Activision's shooter behemoth

Features

GTA Online gameplay of a club night in Galaxy

GTA Online has resisted years of cringe celebrity cameos in live service games and emerged looking uniquely classy

By Jeremy Peel Published 10 September 25

Opinion Opinion | Rockstar dodged the Squid Game tie-ins and didn't forget about Dre

Opinion

Taking a corner at speed with blue skies overhead, skidding, in Driver for PS1, from the PLAY Magazine retrospective - cropped in for a header image

I still wake up sweating because of Driver's parking garage, but there's no denying this PS1 classic changed open world gaming forever

By Jeremy Peel Published 25 August 25

Opinion Feature | Two years before Grand Theft Auto 3, Driver shifted the medium's gears

Opinion

Bioshock Infinite screenshot showing Elizabeth about to hit someone with a book

If "good is the new bad" in games, flawed experiments won't have time to grow into future GOTYs

By Jeremy Peel Last updated 15 August 25

Opinion Opinion | The interesting-but-wonky 7/10 has done us a lot of good in the long run

Opinion

A warrior overlooking ruins on a grassy field beneath a grey sky in Shadow of the Colossus

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"

By Jeremy Peel Published 5 August 25

Opinion Opinion | Big-budget developers are reliant on indie innovation to keep us entertained

Opinion

GTA Online screenshot showing a woman with pink hair and a green coat holding a gun in front of an expensive red car

Today's GTA Online is a compulsive loop of long and mostly uneventful drives, but I'm into it

By Jeremy Peel Published 30 July 25

Opinion Opinion | The cash is counterfeit, the vibes are real

Opinion

The main characters bombs along on their bicycle in the Wheel World key art, the biking spirit floating just ahead of the handlebars

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"

By Jeremy Peel Published 23 July 25

Review

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

By Jeremy Peel Published 20 July 25

Opinion Opinion | If you need to see your protagonist to know you're playing them, then what does that say about the game?

Opinion

An Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered screenshot showing Dark Brotherhood leader Lucien Lachance talking to the player in a dimly-lit inn

I'm playing Oblivion Remastered as a vampire, and I wouldn't trade my new life for better sleep or a clean conscience

By Jeremy Peel Published 15 July 25

Now Playing Now Playing | Alright, not life, exactly. Un-life

Now Playing

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

By Jeremy Peel Published 3 January 25

Features 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

Features

The key art for Baldur's Gate 3 showing dragons and the Nautilus, with Karlach standing in the foreground, weapon in hand

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"

By Jeremy Peel Published 2 January 25

Features Feature | Edge Magazine: Larian fought with cinematics, embassies and the expectations of BioWare fans to make the RPG of the decade

Features

Posing with a rifle in the Fallout 76 Ghoul update

Become a "fierce berserker" ghoul in Fallout 76 and you can KO a Mirelurk Queen with a single punch

By Jeremy Peel Published 19 December 24

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

Preview