James McMahon
James McMahon is a seasoned journalist and podcaster, having contributed to 12DOVE, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
"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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