Category: Articles

Goblinville and Rebel Crown Interview

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 1st, 2021

We talk to Michael Dunn-O’Connor and Eric Swanson of Narrative Dynamics!

Exploits Feature

What’s the Message of “The Ugly Duckling” Anyways?

By Raven Wu • February 28th, 2021

“It matters little to be born in a duck-yard when one comes from a swan’s egg!”

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A green and a pink inkling staring at each other with menace.

We Found Love in a Chatless Place: Community through Silent Multiplayer

By Emma Kostopolus • February 26th, 2021

Painting in a world where no one has mouths but they must speak.

Gingy's Corner

Huniepop 2

By Gingy Gibson • February 26th, 2021

A disappointing sequel actively working to quash any joy the player may attempt to derive from it.

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Videogame Chamber Music

By William Dowell • February 26th, 2021

“One Winged Angel” is plenty haunting to start but then you hear the string quartet version. Find out what goes into that.

Appendix N: Peter Bebergal Interview

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • February 22nd, 2021

This week, we chat with Peter Bebergal, editor of the new anthology exploring classic Dungeons & Dragons-influencing fantasy fiction: Appendix N!

A piano with two small children looking at it. This is a still from Little Nightmares II.

Little Nightmares II and the Case of Weak Imagery

By Amanda Hudgins • February 15th, 2021

Not every game has to say something with its imagery, but it’s clear that Little Nightmares II wants desperately to be saying something.

Dallas: The Television Role-Playing Game

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • February 15th, 2021

Yup, there was an RPG based on the hit television show Dallas. And it was a disaster.

Letter From the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – February 2021

By Stu Horvath • February 14th, 2021

February sure is long for the shortest month, right? Pass the time with the new Unwinnable Monthly.

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50 Years Later, Superman Defeats the Klan Again

By Harry Rabinowitz • February 10th, 2021

Superman punching Nazis, chucking Klansmen and standing up for diversity has never been this good.

Alice is Missing

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • February 8th, 2021

A silent RPG about a missing friend, played over text messages. Plus: a quick chat with Lucian Kahn (Visigoths vs Mall Goths)!

Two star filled silhouettes with text between that reads "one match light up an empire"

Winter’s Orbit, Fireheart Tiger, and the Empire

By Amanda Hudgins • February 5th, 2021

I started reading Aliette de Bodard’s Fireheart Tiger around the same time as I started finishing Everina Maxwell’s Winter’s Orbit and found overlap in both the temporal and literal sense.

Casting Deep Meteo

El Hijo, the Solid Snake of Tag

By Levi Rubeck • February 4th, 2021

In stealth games, I always aspire to be the ghost.

Exalted Funeral Interview

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • February 1st, 2021

Hold onto your wallets! We’re talking to the guy behind the coolest RPG shop online.

The Beat Box

RIP MF DOOM

By Noah Springer • January 29th, 2021

Just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man name.

the cover art for Everybody Has a Podcast Except You

Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You) Review

By Amanda Hudgins • January 25th, 2021

Advice books need to hit a sweet spot of giving the right amount of advice for the audience of course, but again I’m not sure who Everybody Has a Podcast is for.

Cyberpunk

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 25th, 2021

You ready for some style over substance?

I Got Myself a Plan: Tremors (1990) on a Very Fancy New Blu-ray

By Orrin Grey • January 22nd, 2021

When I was a kid, I had a short list of favorite monster movies that had come out during my lifetime, and Tremors was right at the top.

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The Thrill of Being the World’s Only Active Player

By Henry Ewins • January 21st, 2021

I wanted to know how and why developers can be inspired to go so against the grain that they sacrifice what seems like the most fundamental of any creator’s wants – having an audience…

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The Plagues of Dunwall

By Alma Roda-Gil • January 21st, 2021

The rich and powerful never think that the problems of the common people will affect them.

Gamma World

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 18th, 2021

We’ve seen the future: its full of mutants!

Letter From the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – January 2021

By Stu Horvath • January 15th, 2021

Happy new year, gang! Let’s see how Unwinnable is kicking off 2021.

Metamorphosis Alpha

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 11th, 2021

Mutants! In space!

World Tour

Germany

By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 4th, 2021

Bring out your beers and your bratwurst, and let’s get going! On tap: Herzog’s Aguirre and Wenders’ Wings of Desire.

Joe DeSimone Interview

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 4th, 2021

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk to Joe DeSimone of The Academy of Games!

Exploits Feature

Two Minutes to Late Night – Bedroom Covers

By Ed Coleman • January 3rd, 2021

Our pick for best thing on the internet that makes the pandemic bearable.

Fear of the Dark, Side B

By Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath • January 1st, 2021

Maiden Voyage season one wraps up with the departure of Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden! (Decades old) PLOT TWIST!

The Best Games of 2020

By Team Unwinnable • December 31st, 2020

This year has put on one hell of a spectacular shit show. But at the same time, games have proven to be the one salve we need to tide us over through 2020.

Best of 2020

The Best TV Shows of 2020

By Team Unwinnable • December 30th, 2020

Has there ever been a better year to binge?

Best of 2020

The Best Movies of 2020

By Team Unwinnable • December 30th, 2020

At this point, it’s almost parody, the movies’ editor writing a screed about how terrible the movies list is; “This list is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here…nothing valued is here.”

Rookie of the Year

365 Days of Halloween

By Matt Marrone • December 29th, 2020

Practically every time we saw Phoebe Bridgers in 2020, she was wearing a full-body skeleton costume.

Best of 2020

The Best Music of 2020

By Team Unwinnable • December 29th, 2020

Despite the shit show of 2020, musicians soldiered on, doing what they do and providing us all with the briefest of respites from staring at our phones, our walls or each other.

Mörk Borg

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 28th, 2020

The world is dying. Will you rage hopelessly against the end or cower in robbed graves in your final days?

Best of 2020

The Best Books of 2020

By Team Unwinnable • December 28th, 2020

Books will continue to inspire, instruct, entertain, baffle and illuminate our lives and the interestingly cursed times that we find ourselves embroiled in.

Fear of the Dark, Side A

By Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath • December 25th, 2020

Ho, ho, ho! What could be better than a new episode of Maiden Voyage for Christmas?!? What’s that? You had a whole list of things you asked for and a new Maiden Voyage episode wasn’t one of them? Well, consider this a fun, unexpected stocking stuffer!

cover detail of the Last Starfighter Blu-Ray showing the silhouette of a young man in front of an arcade cabinet of the same name.

Things Change: the Last Starfighter on Blu-Ray

By Orrin Grey • December 23rd, 2020

Add The Last Starfighter to the list of movies I was positive I had seen but actually hadn’t.

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Birth of Masculine Bodies

By Zsolt David • December 17th, 2020

Press button to move legs.