Jeremy Peel

Jeremy Peel

Freelance Writer

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

"Releasing GTA 3 was cathartic," reflects its art director: "We were a young team, relatively inexperienced"

By Jeremy Peel Published

Interview Over 20 years later, GTA 3's art director, Aaron Garbut, talks to Jeremy Peel about the game's landmark creation

Interview
A collage of images with the GamesRadar logo including Trevor from GTA 5, Tommy from GTA Vice City, Roman from GTA 4, and Rochelle from GTA San Andreas
The best GTA moments: Our explosive Top 100 celebrates the series ahead of GTA 6

By Jeremy Peel last updated

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Jeremy Peel Published

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

Opinion
John Carpenter's Toxic Commando
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Review

Review
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
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

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

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

Now Playing
games like Resident Evil - Bioshock
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

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

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

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
Stalker: Shadow of Chornobyl isn't the mind-bending prospect it once was, but that’s only because we have it so good

By Jeremy Peel Published

The emergent has become the everyday, and shooters are all the better for it

FPS Games
Mafia members about to shoot a rival group in Mafia: Definitive Edition
I hope the cars in Mafia: The Old Country are so slow they go backwards

By Jeremy Peel Published

Opinion Opinion | Underpowered vehicles are just one way in which Mafia has always found magic in mundanity

Opinion
Fallout 76
Fallout 76 just got bigger to make way for an extra vault, 12 new quests, and more Vault-Tec scheming

By Jeremy Peel Published

Preview Preview | With the new Skyline Valley update, the West Virginia map gets bigger. Could Washington DC be next?

Preview
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