Jeremy Peel

London calling

How PlayStation’s The Getaway managed to outdo, yet fail against, GTA 3

The ambitious PS2 action game is still revealing secrets to this day.

cry me a rivia

The Witcher 1 is not the obvious remake candidate you might think

Moving on to a whole new Witcher game – and a whole new Witcher saga – is the lesser evil when you think about what the alternative could have been...

vomfest

Why do video games make some people feel sick?

Say no to nausea.

Joy of the Mundane

What's behind the Simulation game genre's rise to prominence and success?

The devs of the leading flight, PC building and powerwashing simulators reveal their dark arts.

How Google Stadia swallowed Typhoon Studios and spat out Raccoon Logic

Why are modders restoring the look and feel of Cyberpunk 2018?

Inside the Driver game that died so that Watch Dogs could live

The kill/death ratio is holding Call of Duty back

Are game developers still turned on by day/night cycles?

The next revolution in online games is to make Resident Evil's Mr X a player

Disintegration review: Halo, is it me you're looking for?

Dark Messiah is Arkane's worst game, but it's also the blueprint for Dishonored

Minecraft Dungeons review: block-rocking beatdowns

What it's like to play Halo 2 in 2020

Call of Duty Warzone's modes are in constant flux and you're the lab rat

Gears Tactics review: a bird's eye view brings faithfully chunky combat but no new perspective

Fallout 76 Wastelanders DLC adds NPCs, but it still remains Bethesda's quietest, most lonesome RPG

Modern Warfare cheapens its campaign by resurrecting a dead hero to sell a battle pass for Season 3

Call of Duty's Verdansk is a telling collage of the places we consider warzones

Modern Warfare 2's false flag terrorist attack resonates for the wrong reasons in 2020

How can Ghost Recon get back to its original vision?

How hearing became the most important sense in the modern FPS

Will Baldur's Gate 3 go to the Underdark?

How Nintendo took over a planet that had turned its back on game consoles

An Eve Online first-person shooter is CCP's greatest folly

How Half-Life 2 influenced a generation to make Dishonored, Dying Light, and eventually, Half-Life: Alyx

How Dying Light 2 solves four problems with first-person parkour

Ni no Kuni on Netflix proves the power of grounding fantasy in reality

Is getting knocked out really non-lethal? We asked a doctor about video game KOs

Journey to the Savage Planet review: a far cry from the usual FPS

Vince Zampella is right - DICE LA deserves better than to be a support studio

What The Witcher 3 tells us about Putin's WW2 dispute

7 times games ruined Christmas

Who's making the new Bioshock?

Four genius Kojima Productions staff who aren't Hideo Kojima

The Outer Worlds proves that RPGs and comedy can mix

Grounded isn't Obsidian's first survival game, or even its second

In defence of Modern Warfare's ludicrously noisy footsteps

Pokemon's co-op experiment was a failure, but that doesn't mean it can't be fixed

Three games that will make you better at Death Stranding

The Witcher Netflix show is right to lean "more towards horror" than fantasy

In Death Stranding and Red Dead Redemption 2, triple-A has embraced boredom

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare campaign review - Infinity Ward dares, but doesn't always win

Why not everyone gets on with Call of Duty

Fallout 1st's unlimited stash makes loyal Fallout 76 players feel like second class citizens

The Outer Worlds highlights the RPG genre's inventory problem

Why are Hollywood screenwriters so bad at writing video games?

Fortnite might be back from the dead, but its black hole is the terrible fate that awaits all online games

Is there a videogame Keanu-verse? A scientific investigation

John Wick Hex shows that great film adaptation requires focus