Dom Peppiatt

1 month ago | vg247.com | Dom Peppiatt

I’ve spoken at length about my tentative excitement for CCP’s ambitious shooter, EVE Vanguard. The developer behind the venerable EVE Online wants to do something different with its take on the FPS; it wants to take the shared-world shooter template laid out by the likes of Destiny and Helldivers 2 and apply all the learnings of EVE to it. It wants to make it more meaningful to the average player. It wants to reinvigorate the genre.

1 month ago | vg247.com | Dom Peppiatt

“Eve Online is a game about spaceships, and what would a new expansion be without… new spaceships?” asks CCP Snorri - also known as Snorri Árnason, game director for Eve Online - as he shows off a video of a ‘pretty, white beast’ of a new ship at Eve FanFest 2025. It’s like an advert for an expensive car; all sweeping shots, slow pans, light glinting off hard, metal edges. “It’s a best-in-class marauder, and people are going to freak out about it!”He’s right.

1 month ago | vg247.com | Dom Peppiatt

Impasto is a technique used in art whereby paint is layered on, thick and textural, with enough mass that you can use your brush or knife to sculpt shapes. The word comes from the Italian for ‘dough’ or ‘mixture’, referring to the way artisans would ‘knead’ or ‘paste’ their materials to make the paint come alive. To use their tools to create something that defies the two-dimensional form and give the impression of something deeper. Perhaps, even, more profound.

1 month ago | vg247.com | Dom Peppiatt

Today, I visited the Nintendo Switch 2 experience in London. It was a really pleasant atmosphere; lots of kids of all ages visibly brimming with excitement to get their hands on the Switch 2 for the first time. Roars of excitement as gaggles of mates played the abysmally-named Super Mario Party Jamboree – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV. Hollering and whooping as one middle-aged bloke beats a handful of crestfallen kids in Mario Kart World.

2 months ago | vg247.com | Dom Peppiatt

It’s all gone wrong. We planned this out so meticulously, too. In the days leading up to the heist, my teammates and I were all legwork; casing the futuristic bank, pilfering the supplies we’d need to blow out the windows and make our escape, readying a hive of murderous drones so that we could infiltrate the target area under cover of some guys just looking to make a drop-off. We’d planned it, spent days making sure it was fool-proof. But, like any good heist, of course there was a complication.