Peter Molyneux interview: 'It's over, I will not speak to the press again'

The veteran game designer is at the centre of a raging controversy over his new game Godus. He says he is finished with the press

When things go wrong for modern game developers they go spectacularly wrong. This is an era of endless rolling news and mass social media judgement. There is no respite. Peter Molyneux knows this now - if he didn't before. The veteran designer, famed for inventing the "god game" genre with his 1989 title, Populous, has spent the last three days under intense press scrutiny. His latest project, Godus, is in disarray, his reputation in tatters. Everyone wants a piece.

"The only answer is for me to retreat," he says, speaking via Skype from his office in Guildford. "I love my games and I love sharing them with people. It's this amazing incredible thing I get to do with my life, creating ideas and sharing them with people. The problem is, it just hasn't worked."