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Art for Max Payne 1 and Max Payne 2 in black and white, with the titular cop on the left holding a gun and on the right embracing a much shorter woman

So Much for Being Subtle

By Edward Smith • March 21st, 2025

That rhythmic, never-rising, never-falling delivery creates a kind of base reality for the world of Max Payne.

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Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – March 2025

By David Shimomura • March 20th, 2025

We’re taking to the high seas.

Here's the Thing

A top-down view of the Caves of Qud map, rendered in all its ASCII glory.

Graphics Are Never Everything

By Rob Rich • March 19th, 2025

While being able to visually enjoy (or even just parse) a game’s visuals are important, Rob isn’t a fan of just how much importance people sometimes place on them.

Dialogue

A screenshot from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth shows Sephiroth swing a sword in a wide arc as he stares stoically forward.

A Dialogue with Nic Reuben

By Autumn Wright • March 18th, 2025

[Pauses to move cat]

Key art for Citizen Sleeper 2, where the android sleeper is floating with a lot of wires, tools, trash, and a black sleepy kitty

I’m Not Meant To Know Every Train Schedule

By Wallace Truesdale • March 17th, 2025

The longer I stared, the more convinced I became that the train was an assault against logic.

Liminal Horror Deluxe

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 17th, 2025

Is that the streetlight buzzing, or an insectoid monster wanting to lay eggs in my eye?

A photo of the halloween version of Boop called BOOooop with an orange bed with pumpkins and spooky stuff as a board and meepeles as white cats with jack o lanterns, black cats in which hats, and ghostly cats as well

Herding Cats: Thinky Thoughts and Scaredy Cats in BOOoop

By Orrin Grey • March 14th, 2025

Boop!

Noah's Beat Box

The late film director David Lynch takes a huge bite of a glazed donut.

Ok, Let’s Try That Again, but This Time Good!

By Noah Springer • March 14th, 2025

If there is someone who I strongly admired and I think stood for something good in the world of the creative industries, it would have to be David Lynch.