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, with the GamesRadar+ Big Preview Horror Special 2025 badge branding

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

By James Winspear published

Feature Feature | An attempt to refresh things, this very different take 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

Feature Feature | This return to the very first 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

Feature Feature | Go big or go home? The developers of this series entry decided to do both when Silent Hill landed 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

Feature Feature | The development of this handheld-first trip to the Hill was as convoluted as the prequel 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 Winspear published

Interview Interview | Five 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

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

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