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Jeremy Peel

@jeremypeel.bsky.social

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I do words for the likes of PC Gamer, Edge and Eurogamer, and consult for games studios. If you’d like to support my work directly, subscribe to The Peel Perspective on Patreon. It’s free!

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · Jun 5

Today I've published the first free edition of The Peel Perspective, a solo newsletter dedicated to covering games outside the hype cycle. Think retrospectives on forgotten classics and inspired game mechanics - drawing on my years of writing for Edge and PC Gamer. www.patreon.com/posts/peel-p...

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 12m

A free Peel Perspective essay just dropped, on the magic and mangled physics of Thief: Deadly Shadows. www.patreon.com/posts/105026...

Nightmare hags and dodgy physics: the sublime and the ridiculous live happily together in Thief 3

Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 43m

Beee-elzebub has a nerf gun put aside for me, for me, for meeee

PCGamesN @pcgamesn.com · 46m

Amazon Games and NCSoft drop fresh nerfs on the new Throne and Liberty Orb weapon, which has been making endgame content far too easy.

www.pcgamesn.com/throne-and-l...

#mmorpg #amazongames #gamingnews #pcgaming

Amazon MMORPG's super satisfying new weapon is so good that it's already forcing the nerf council to step in

Amazon Games and NCSoft drop fresh nerfs on the new Throne and Liberty Orb weapon, which has been making endgame content far too easy.

www.pcgamesn.com

Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 3h

Fine: god-tier, kaleidoscopically multi-faceted mucking about

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 3h

You're doing your best work and all.

Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 3h

Good christ that's the actual strapline. What a misery. There'll still be good faith up-and-coming writers contributing to that site and they deserve better.

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 3h

Oh I am bad, don't worry, I'm at peace with it

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1d

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

designroom.site

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 1d

Now I've finished this story, I can say it's a wonderful character study, a very funny pisstake of probability in games, and a quite moving meditation on whether you are your work. Lots of food for thought on how the latter might be caught up in self-esteem. Thanks @hthrflwrs.bsky.social!

Failbetter Games - Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 20d

A pair of assistants wheel out a metal table, upon which a writhing, screaming number seven has been strapped. Its eyes roll around in its head. "Who would like to cut it open?"

The Exceptional Story for October is here! The Shape of Infinity, by Heather Flowers.

A white woman with bobbed brown hair and a blue, high-necked Victorian dress looks serenely at the viewer. One of her hands rests on a giant, curving entity which loops over her head like a massive shepherd's crook. It glows amber and is studded with slitted amber eyes.

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Richard Cobbett @richardcobbett.bsky.social · 2d

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/...

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, ...

store.steampowered.com

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 3d

“It’s a roundtable interview”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a new CMS

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 5d

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

Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 6d

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

Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 6d

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.

Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 6d

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.

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 6d

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...

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.

www.pcgamer.com

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 6d

Musicals are Halloween, unnerving and invisible ones doubly so.

Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 6d

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*

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 7d

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.

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 7d

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...

Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 8d

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...

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

www.gamesradar.com

Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 10d

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...

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."

www.pcgamer.com

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 10d

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