Burnt Offering Notes on a Train Trip By Stu Horvath • September 16th, 2021 In Chaosium’s Horror on the Orient Express the journey is your final destination.
Horror on the Orient Express Post-Mortem By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 6th, 2021 Choo-choo! One year, three months and eight corpses later, and Stu’s run of Horror on the Orient Express is over.
Thousand Year Old Vampire By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 30th, 2021 Thousand Year Old Vampire teaches us that immortality is for the birds. Plus: Epic of Dreams!
I Played It, Like, Twice... Candles Against the Dark: Surviving the Night (and Each Other) in Deranged By Orrin Grey • August 26th, 2021 A character who is Deranged is normal by day but becomes a monster by night.
Revving the Engine Broken Helms, Shattered Shields By Sara Clemens • August 19th, 2021 Videogame Vikings are having a moment.
Feature Excerpt On Orientalism and Exoticism in Videogame Music By William Dowell • August 18th, 2021 The insidious way that Orientalism exists in videogame music.
Feature Excerpt The Mutated City By Zsolt David • August 17th, 2021 The world living in the husk of another.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – August 2021 By David Shimomura • August 16th, 2021 One more trip to the Wasteland, and other stories, in Issue 142.
Cities By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 16th, 2021 “I will find a city, find myself a city to live in.”
Forms in Light Glitz and Glamor By Justin Reeve • August 13th, 2021 What lurks below the surface of Yakuza 6’s dual settings?
Collision Detection The Role-Playing Television Future of Tomorrow, Yesterday By Ben Sailer • August 12th, 2021 VR, the hard way. The really hard way.
Shadows of Yog-Sothoth By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 9th, 2021 A madman wants to wake Cthulhu up early (because that is a good idea) and it is up to you to stop him!
I Played It, Like, Twice... Shelf Stability: Good Design Gets Out of the Way in Ex Libris By Orrin Grey • July 29th, 2021 Ex Libris looks complicated, but all the moving parts click together pretty seamlessly, and there are rarely any of those awkward moments where you’re left scratching your head over how one card mechanic interacts with another.
Feature Excerpt Ecstatic Truth in Games By Ben Rueter • July 28th, 2021 What nonfiction games offer if you can find them
Feature Excerpt Mother Loves You: Monstrous Parenthood in Amnesia: Rebirth By Emma Kostopolus • July 27th, 2021 There’s a deeper, more metatextual horror to Amnesia: Rebirth.
Feature Excerpt Podracing Towards an Absent Future By Samuel Kendall • July 26th, 2021 Because Star Wars isn’t really Star Wars anymore.
All the Worlds’ Monsters By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 26th, 2021 In which the makers of Dungeons & Dragons get beat to the punch, again.
Paul Raschid on How to Make an FMV Game in the Time of COVID-19 By Drew Byrd • July 13th, 2021 An interview with FMV game director, Paul Raschid.
Encyclopedia Magica By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 12th, 2021 It ain’t treasure unless there’s some magic items, right?
Traces Intermission: Too Late to Love you By Diego Nicolás Argüello • July 7th, 2021 Welcome Diego back with his haunting look at his own personal Museum of Dwellings.
Stu Wrote a Book By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 5th, 2021 For a while now, Stu’s been writing a book on RPGs. That changed last Monday, cuz he finished it. Hooray!
Collision Detection Dos Vedanya, Kudryavka By Ben Sailer • June 29th, 2021 Correcting the tragedy of the first dog in space.
The Throne of Bloodstone By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 28th, 2021 Get to level 100, fight 10,000 zombies, beat up Orcus, steal his stuff and murder Tiamat!
Revving the Engine Death is the Beginning By Ben Sailer • June 25th, 2021 Reaching the spirit world is not going to be so easy in Path of Kami
Feature Excerpt Imagining the Future in Games By Ruth Cassidy • June 24th, 2021 A vision of tomorrow, today!
Feature Excerpt The Personification of the House By Matthew Brown • June 22nd, 2021 The walls could always talk, we just have to listen.
Andrew Walter Interview By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 21st, 2021 Andrew Walter joins us to chat about his melty RPG artwork.
Eyeing Elsewhere Feeding The Chimera By Phillip Russell • June 11th, 2021 I’m stuck on this feeling I have while playing Biomutant where I want to like it. I want it to succeed, and I want it to figure out its own voice.
Another Look Performing Interactivity By Yussef Cole • June 11th, 2021 The hyper specificity and performativity of play.
Feature Excerpt Dancing in Solitude By Clint Morrison Jr. • June 10th, 2021 Dance has a long history of media representation during and following “plague” years.
Revving the Engine The Occupation: Mind Your Deadline By Ben Sailer • June 8th, 2021 A righteous mission. An edge of danger. A David and Goliath dynamic.
