Dom Peppiatt

3 weeks ago | vg247.com | Dom Peppiatt

In Doom 2016, there were over 650 secrets to find. Doom Eternal had even more. Whether they took the form of toys, codexes, albums, secret encounters, or slayer gate, you could never really be sure you had found everything in a given area before you passed some sort of threshold or point of no return - locking you out of exploration and often meaning you’d have to play through a whole level again in order to locate everything you wanted to see.

3 weeks ago | vg247.com | Dom Peppiatt

Doom Eternal was a great game, but it was a huge departure from Doom 2016. The ‘run and gun’ behaviour that we’d been conditioned into over the course of the reboot’s 13 spectacular levels was traded in for 2020’s follow-up. What once was a heavy, brutal campaign of destruction and violence was now a floatier affair. Resources became more limited. You were forced to be more mobile. Double jumps, dashes, strafing, and platforming became essential. It split the fanbase in half.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Dom Peppiatt

Did you know that soundtrack concerts are among the most popular for touring orchestras? A full third of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s first-time audience members are coming to the concert hall via their favourite series and movies – and video games. It is a huge cultural growth area, and one that may have gone unrecognised by the general public. “It is impossible to ignore video game music now,” says Tommy Pearson, founder and artistic director of the inaugural London Soundtrack festival.

1 month ago | vg247.com | Dom Peppiatt

When I was ushered into a private screening of Flow, the animated Latvian adventure film created entirely in the free and open-source software, Blender, I was not expecting to come out of the cinema thinking of nothing but Team Ico and Fumito Ueda. I went into the film completely blind: all that I knew was that Flow had won an Oscar for best animated feature (pipping both The Wild Robot and Inside Out 2 to the post), and was completely dialogue-free.

1 month ago | vg247.com | Dom Peppiatt

You’re probably familiar with the Japanese art of ‘kintsugi’, quite literally meaning ‘golden repair’. Kintsugi is part-philosophy, part-art form. It revolves around the act of repairing broken pottery or ceramics with lacquer, mending cracks and broken edges with dusted, powdered gold, silver, or platinum. ‘Kintsugi’ aims to expose, emphasize and celebrate the damage that was once done, and find new meaning in the repaired product - an homage to an item’s unique history.