The McMaster Files The Mundane and the Sublime By Jason McMaster • December 6th, 2019 In Death Stranding, you can measure your progress by what you have built and contributed to the world.
Collision Detection Exploring Social Impact Journalism With Headliner: Novinews By Ben Sailer • December 5th, 2019 Headliner: Novinews asks players to consider the social impact of sound journalistic best practice by offering questions that lead to more questions.
Our Gardens By Jeremy Signor • December 4th, 2019 When we as players interact with the frameworks that developers give us, the tangible result becomes like a garden cultivated by both.
Episode 17: Tiny Islands, Watchmen By David Shimomura and Sara Clemens • December 4th, 2019 Double episode today: David and Sara dig into the new videogame Tiny Islands and the Watchmen TV series.
Backlog A Great Story and a Good Fluke By Gavin Craig • December 4th, 2019 The 2019 World Series is an example of what is wrong with major league baseball.
Smart Hacks To Win at Word Games By Alan Smithee • December 2nd, 2019 We’ve compiled a list of the best hacks that can help any player improve their score and ultimately win at word games.
Dungeons & Drawings By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 2nd, 2019 This week, we chat about the monster art book Dungeons & Drawings!
Feature Excerpt What Lies Beneath: Subtextual Storytelling Techniques in Videogames By Jeff Spoonhower • December 2nd, 2019 Jeff Spoonhower discusses how stories can be told during gameplay through the use of powerful subtextual audio-visual techniques.
Feature Excerpt Games About Death (Are Stuck In a Rut) By Mark Hill • December 2nd, 2019 Why has the treatment of death in certain indie games become so predictable?
Holiday Gift Guide 2019 By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 25th, 2019 This week, we’re getting ready for the holidays and wanted to help give you a leg up on your gifts for your friends and family around the gaming table (and maybe yourself too, let’s be real).
Fallout 3, The Outer Worlds, and the Megaton Problem By Jeremy Signor • November 22nd, 2019 Binary choices in games persist today even as RPGs get more and more open. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Jim Zub, Part 2: Dungeons & Dragons vs Rick and Morty By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 19th, 2019 Part two of our interview with Jim Zub! We chat about his D&D comics, the Dungeons & Dragons vs Rick and Morty box set and learn he does a pretty mean Rick Sanchez impersonation.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – November 2019 By Stu Horvath • November 18th, 2019 Cliches about death, subtextual storytelling and more in this month’s issue of Unwinnable Monthly!
The Rust Monster By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 18th, 2019 The Vintage RPG Podcast is now weekly! We celebrate by talking about the Rust Monster (shudder).
Esports Teams in CSGO, LoL, DotA 2 and Overwatch By Alan Smithee • November 13th, 2019 We present you ourt version of top-3 most impressive and successful teams in each esports discipline.
Diary of a 1st-Time Interactive Fiction Developer – Part 78: Skip to the End By Declan Taggart • November 12th, 2019 At long last, Declan Taggart finishes up his dev log for Choose Your Own End to the Viking World.
Forms in Light Function and Fiction By Justin Reeve • November 12th, 2019 Destiny 2 has a more complex relationship with Modernism than its clean-cut buildings would suggest.
Collision Detection How I Learned to Stop Worrying (And Love Being Horrified) By Ben Sailer • November 11th, 2019 Ben hasn’t felt frightened by a game since playing the original Resident Evil two decades ago. However, a brisk run through Outlast changed that, and in the process, helped him rekindle a long-lost love for being scared shitless.
Jim Zub on the Young Adventurer’s Guides By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 11th, 2019 This week, author Jim Zub fills us in on everything you want to know about his brand new series of introductory Dungeons & Dragons books.
This Mortal Coyle Alice from American McGee’s Alice By Deirdre Coyle • November 8th, 2019 American McGee’s series seemed like a natural extension of Deirdre’s lifelong Alice in Wonderland obsession.
Brain Burpies with Obelisk Overthrow By Levi Rubeck • November 7th, 2019 The elegance of Obelisk Overthrow inspires me to think harder, as if clenching my jaw was what keeps me from conceptualizing a plan and executing it.
Another Look Planting Seeds in the Apocalypse By Yussef Cole • November 7th, 2019 Mutazione owes its narrative to those who now survive in spite of colonialism and it’s world-ending tendencies.
The Burnt Offering Fracas in Freshtovia By Stu Horvath • November 5th, 2019 Wendy’s admittedly committed attempt at a tabletop RPG is every bit the corporate advertisement it tries not to be.
The Joy of Labor in Wilmot’s Warehouse By Jeremy Signor • October 30th, 2019 Games require labor to work. But the joy we find in labor is what gives games their spark.
The Satanic Panic By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 28th, 2019 This week, we look at Dungeons & Dragons and its part in the Satanic Panic.
Roulette vs. Slots: History and Design Elements By Alan Smithee • October 24th, 2019 When you think of today’s online casinos, you think of a maze of blackjack tables, roulette tables, flashing slot machines, poker, and a vast array of gambling opportunities.
Feature Excerpt The Horror of the Tortured Artist By Rachel Watts • October 24th, 2019 Both Layers of Fear games tap into the horror of what happens when artists become desperate chasing their muse.
Feature Excerpt Two Hands Off the Wheel: Learning to Embrace the Chaos of Zweihander By R. M. Jansen-Parkes • October 24th, 2019 Most tabletop RPGs boil down to a roll of the dice.
Feature Excerpt Grim, Perilous and Inclusive By Adam Brown • October 24th, 2019 Zweihander: Grim & Perilous is a fresh take on dark fantasy and tabletop RPGs.
October Spookfest: Trick and Treat By Gingy Gibson • October 18th, 2019 A simple, though no less spooky, take on a night in the woods.
Unwinnable Monthly – October 2019 By Stu Horvath • October 17th, 2019 It’s October, and that means the latest issue of Unwinnable Monthly is full of horrors of all sorts…
The Ancestors of the Children of Morta By Levi Rubeck • October 17th, 2019 Families that fight together…fight together in fairly unsurprising ways.
Even the Mediocre By Jeremy Signor • October 16th, 2019 Too often we think of keeping good games alive when we think of game preservation. But ignoring the rest does a disservice to the whole of game history.
Forms in Light Anomalous Architecture By Justin Reeve • October 14th, 2019 If some of the buildings look weird in Yakuza Kiwami 2, you can blame Japanese regulations.
Pacesetter’s Chill, and an interview with Nathan D. Paoletta By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 14th, 2019 This week, we look at the 1984 horror RPG Chill, from Pacesetter Games. We also chat with Nathan D. Paoletta about his games Worldwide Wrestling and Imp of the Perverse.
Collision Detection Backing a Fake Basketball Underdog By Ben Sailer • October 13th, 2019 It cannot be overstated exactly how bad NBA 2K has beaten NBA Live over the past two decades.
October Spookfest: Misadventures of Laura Silver By Gingy Gibson • October 11th, 2019 This one’s for all you less than stellar detectives out there.
Clacking Out a Few Kind Words By Levi Rubeck • October 10th, 2019 Levi plays Kind Words, a game about comforting and being comforted.
The Mumbling of Control By Jeremy Signor • October 9th, 2019 The setting and premise are undoubtedly the stars of Control, but the sound design and nonsensical dialogue truly make the Oldest House otherworldly.
Checkpoint The Client List By Corey Milne • October 9th, 2019 Void Bastards is quintessentially British. Even with its prisoners-cum-clients.
