Unwinnable

Featured Story

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE

By Niv M. Sultan • March 5th, 2026

As long as evil has assailed us, humanity has mustered the imagination and courage, the personal and collective will, to crush it.

Current Issue

Exploits Feature

Feminine Panic: Who Gets to Own Masculine Narratives?

By Beatrix Kondo • March 2nd, 2026

The panic serves control, not preservation.

Rookie of the Year

A screenshot from Cyberpunk 2077 shows NPC Panam Palmer in a neon-lit bar setting. Her dark hair is piled on her head and she has a look of concerned annoyance.

Meeting Hanako at Embers: Why Video Game Endings Are a Bummer — And Multiple Ones Are Even Worse

By Matt Marrone • March 5th, 2026

Unfortunately, Cyberpunk 2077 allows gamers to make choices.

A screenshot of Alien Covenant where Blond David in a blue little uniform is looking down disdainfully at us, the viewer

Comfort of Cold Starlight

By Wyeth Leslie • March 4th, 2026

The reduction of human life to extract value for others has always been the text of this hostile universe.

Interlinked

The Keen Edge of Legacy: An Interview with tonia laird

By Phoenix Simms • March 4th, 2026

In all of her work there’s a deep sense of care and respect for how people, both individually and collectively, are impacted by society’s systems of power.

Don't Stop Believing

Two figures stand on a desert landscape, looking up at a large, glowing sun with a bright, fiery phoenix symbol on its surface. The scene has a warm, pink and orange color palette.

Too Many Spoilers to Fit into One Lootcrate for Borderlands 3!

By Elijah Beahm • March 3rd, 2026

Someone realized they could use all the crassness to smuggle in both thoughtful and discomforting topics we often avoid.

A screenshot of rthe title screen for Caves of Qud with the title at top and painting of mysterious ruins in a low lit underground cavern waiting to be explored

Portable Permadeath with Caves of Qud on Switch

By Rob Rich • March 2nd, 2026

Qud is so much more than its emergent stories.

Shadowdark

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 2nd, 2026

If the lights go out, you’re dead.

A cropped image of the key art for Without a dawn with a strange sunset rendered in computer character based art and dim yellow light and green clouds

The Player as an Unwanted Guest

By Diego Cinelli • February 27th, 2026

Without a Dawn made me believe that I was the one in control.

Here Be Monsters

A screenshot from the technological horror game >Terminal, featuring terminal-style text overlaid on a statue figure.

> Terminal: A review

By Emma Kostopolus • February 27th, 2026

Buried in all the content, there are some truly gorgeous, deeply impactful moments.

Mind Palaces

An illustration of two characters, Snufkin and Moomintroll, sitting on a small wooden bridge in a natural, autumnal setting.

Escape to Moominvalley

By Maddi Chilton • February 26th, 2026

The perfect gentle world of the Moomins doesn’t exist in real life, but parts of it do.

Magazine Columns

fictional companions

This Mortal Coyle

Deirdre Coyle

finding digital grace

Don't Stop Believing

Elijah Beahm

touch digital grass

Area of Effect

Jay Castello

interfacing in the now

Mind Palaces

Maddi Chilton

after we’ve moved on

Past Presence

Dr. Emily Price

kcab ti nur

Run It Back

Oluwatayo Adewole

the feedback loop

Interlinked

Phoenix Simms

elsewhere,here

Totally Generic

Natasha Ochshorn

games, music and poetry

Casting Deep Meteo

Levi Rubeck

The art of games criticism

Dialogue

Autumn Wright

what we’re afraid of

Here Be Monsters

Emma Kostopolus

A guest in queer spaces

The Guest

Amanda Hudgins

ruminations on the riff

Noise Complaint

Ben Sailer

on being something else

Nonhuman Meditations

Alyssa Wejebe

architecture and games

Forms in Light

Justin Reeve

ridicule and reverence

Rookie of the Year

Matt Marrone

a monthly soapbox

Here's the Thing

Rob Rich

now this

Noah's Beat Box

Noah Springer