James Winspear

Freelance writer

James is a freelance games writer based in not-so-jolly old England. When he’s not scrounging for his next writing gig, he’ll be hunting🍌 for new survival horror games to play and wishing he was back in the 90's again. He's proud to admit that he hasn't played a Call of Duty game in at least a decade, but less so that he spends more time than is healthy trying to get a stable 60 FPS on most of his games.

Latest articles by James Winspear

Murphy Pendleton stands in an alley with a pipe in Silent Hill: Downpour

Silent Hill: Downpour devs reflect 12 years on: "Stop trying to be Japanese scary, and just be Czech scary"

By James Winspear published

Features Feature | An attempt to refresh things, this very different takeꦗ was the last mainline Silent Hill

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A frozen child sits on a swing in the key art for Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is "a weird-ass postmodern riff" on the PS1 original says Sam Barlow, talking the development 15 years later

By James Winspear published

Features Feature | This return ⭕to the very fir🌠st game broke apart everything you knew and rebuilt it in a truly chilling fashion

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A crop of the key art for Silent Hill: Homecoming used on the box, showing a family portrait scuffed and rusted

"At the time survival horror was changing. 'How action-oriented do we get?'": 16 years on, Tomm Hulett reflects on Silent Hill: Homecoming

By James Winspear published

Features Feature | Go big or go home? The developers of this series entry deci𓆉ded to do both when Silent Hill land🐲ed on PS3 and Xbox 360

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A crop of the Silent Hill Origins key art used on the box, showing Alessa Gilespie from behind facing a burnt down ruined house

17 years on, Sam Barlow reflects on Silent Hill: Origins: "To pull it out of the bag with a seven-out-of-ten game was incredibly rewarding"

By James Winspear published

Features Feature | The development o🌄f this handheld-first trip to the Hill was as convoluted as the prequ♊el story it tells

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Obscure

Celebrating the most Obscure PS2 survival horror game with its creators: "Doing a teen slasher movie-style video game seemed like a good idea"

By James Dyson published

Interview Interview | Five𓆏 teens, one school, lots of monsters... what could possibly go wrong?🥃

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Evil Dead Regeneration

Looking back at Evil Dead Regeneration, the classic Ash Williams hack-and-slasher

By James Dyson published

Features Interview | Play magazine speak to the dev team behind 2005's 🌠Evil Dead:꧃ Regeneration

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