James McMahon

Freelance writer

James McMahon is a seasoned journalist and podcaster, having contributed to GamesRadar+, FourFourTwo, Metal Hammer, SFX, and countless other outlets. James spends the vast majority of his time freelancing writing on topics of video games, sports, music, and culture. And when he isn't doing that, he's running a newsletter for Spoook Media and desperately trying to get you to listen to the Ramones. 

Latest articles by James McMahon

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It's-a complicated: A brief history of Mario and Princess Peach's on-off romance

By James McMahon Last updated

Features It's time to settle the score between gaming's most iconic power couple

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Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly took the central tenet of survival horror to its unnatural extreme

By James McMahon Published

Features Resident Evil gives you limited ammo, Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly gives you nothing but nightmares

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What would a real life Animal Crossing: New Horizons island be like? We speak to zoologists to find out

By James McMahon Published

Features It might shock you to learn this, but Animal Crossing isn't an accurate representation of real life

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Exploring the biggest emerging trends that could change the way we play in 2020

By James McMahon Published

Features We can't see into the future, but that's not going to stop us from making some predictions on the biggest emerging trends

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Blair Witch is further proof of why the portrayal of 'insanity' in video games needs to evolve

By James McMahon Published

Features The trivialisation of mental health in gaming continues with Blair Witch, and something has to change

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It's time for video games to have their say on the climate crisis, before it's too late

By James McMahon Published

Features The Earth has no 'Press X to continue': Why aren't games talking about climate change?

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"People genuinely thought that's what I looked like" – 20 years after Mental Wealth aired, meet the star of PlayStation's most bizarre TV spot

By James McMahon Published

Features It was the strangest TV advertisement of 1999, a Scottish girl in pigtails, who may or may not have been an alien, trying to flog you a PlayStation. Guess what? We tracked her down!

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How Reigns convinced two million people to swipe right to rule their kingdom - and captured the Game of Thrones license

By James McMahon Published

Features Spoiler: it involves Brexit, but don’t let that put you off

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Diary of an OCD gamer: Where mental illness and games meet

By James McMahon Published

Do videogames help OCD sufferers? Do they hinder? It’s more complicated than that

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