Forms in Light Parisian Purification By Justin Reeve • December 9th, 2021 Paris was the city of muck and mud long before it became the city of lights, and it really isn’t pretty in Assassin’s Creed Unity.
Another Look Better Late than Never By Yussef Cole • December 7th, 2021 On always being a few steps behind in a never-ending videogame console race.
Holiday Gift Guide (Sorta) By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 6th, 2021 Better late than never!
Collision Detection Rethinking the Post-Apocalypse in Eastward By Ben Sailer • December 3rd, 2021 Post-apocalyptic stories are often framed as tales of what happens after everything ends. Eastward instead shows how life moves on.
Hyperfixations On the Death of Samus Aran By Julie Muncy • December 2nd, 2021 For Samus, her body is her central locus of meaning, the way both in which the world interprets her and in which she, so far as we can tell, interprets herself.
Another Look Solitary Masculinity By Yussef Cole • December 1st, 2021 The solitary, prepper-style know-how in 2018’s Leave No Trace feels eerily familiar to the masochistic “git gud” approach which has long plagued videogames.
Escape the Dark Castle By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 29th, 2021 Will you brave the horrors of the dungeon that stand between you and freedom? Yes! Will you survive? Ehhhhh…probably not. Plus, Celts, magic mushrooms and Caer Mundus!
Revving the Engine Mods & Mythology By Melissa King • November 24th, 2021 The Australian Writers’ Guild Award-winning and critically acclaimed The Forgotten City had humble beginnings as a Skyrim mod.
Fighting Fantasy By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 22nd, 2021 On tap: Fighting Fantasy! Plus, a chat with Blackbirds‘ Ryan Verniere!
Feature Excerpt Rebels Without a Cause By Gerry Hart • November 19th, 2021 Watchdogs: Legion could have been a powerful or at least insightful piece of cultural commentary. It’s more like the Kylie Jenner Pepsi advert.
Bullwinkle and Rocky Role-Playing Party Game By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 15th, 2021 And now, here’s something we hope you’ll really like!
No Accounting for Taste Music and Memory in Midgar By Adam Boffa • November 12th, 2021 Final Fantasy VII Remake uses its music to dramatically reshape a familiar story.
Here's the Thing The Immersive Nature of Tedium By Rob Rich • November 12th, 2021 Rob talks about why he often enjoys tedium in videogames, and how it can make them feel more immersive.
Forms in Light The Best of Worlds By Justin Reeve • November 11th, 2021 Megacorporations can’t be trusted to pursue any sort of progressive politics.
Treasure Hunt By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 9th, 2021 Ships and desert islands and sea shanties and secret treasures: we’re getting nautical on this week’s episode of the Vintage RPG Podcast.
Another Look The Real Quake Was The Friendships We Made Along The Way By Yussef Cole • November 9th, 2021 Razor-sharp precision. Chunky symmetry. Beauty.
Collision Detection Rethinking Retro Remakes With Tunnel B1 By Ben Sailer • November 5th, 2021 We’re in the middle of a retro shooter renaissance. Why not mine the forgotten past for ideas and inspiration?
This Mortal Coyle The Ultimate Apocalypse Team By Deirdre Coyle • November 4th, 2021 Hunters/Gatherers/MacGyver-ers Assemble!
The Full Catsperience By Melissa King • November 3rd, 2021 Everybody gets to be a cat in this charming 3D puzzler.
Revving the Engine Connecting with Tetrominoes By Diego Nicolás Argüello • October 30th, 2021 Last year, Tetris Effect: Connected promised a way to come together even as we were suspended in our quarantine bubbles. It still delivers.
Friction Burns Urgency and Mastery in Umurangi Generation By Ruth Cassidy • October 29th, 2021 While I followed advice to turn off the timer, I kept chewing on its presence. Was it at odds with the game’s purpose, or was I acting in conflict with it?
Feature Excerpt Pendragon and Anti-Fascist Medievalism By Ruth Cassidy • October 29th, 2021 “Camelot has, for the moment, fallen, but the dream of Camelot – of a sane Government by consensus, led by an Arthur and not a Mordred – must and will live on.”
Babes in the Wood By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 25th, 2021 Nothing like exploring a deep dark wood on Halloween night.
I Played It, Like, Twice... Of Monsters and Mortals: Playing Campy Creatures On a Dark and Spooky Night By Orrin Grey • October 21st, 2021 Campy Creatures is, as the box declares, a “Ghoulish Game of Deduction & Bluffing.”
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – October 2021 By David Shimomura • October 18th, 2021 Welcome to the Spoopy Issue!
Impossible Landscapes By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 18th, 2021 You better sure as hell hope you haven’t seen the Yellow Sign.
Kult By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 11th, 2021 We have such sights to show you. Wait, no, wrong horror franchise.
DISASTER PARADISE: at the Centre of the Miiverse By Gwil Jones • October 8th, 2021 Like so much of the Wii U, Miiverse’s emerald-green message boards have been taped off for years, a generic error message flatly reminding us of its indefinite closure and the start-up stampede replaced with lifeless replica dolls.
Feature Excerpt Blasting the Canon By Andrew Goddard • October 7th, 2021 What classical music can teach us about constructing a videogame canon
Here's the Thing Here’s The Thing: Separating the Artist From Art By Rob Rich • October 5th, 2021 An artist is not their work, and Rob thinks it’s astonishing that some people don’t seem to understand this.
Forms in Light When Cities Die By Justin Reeve • October 4th, 2021 Walking around Washington, D.C. in The Division 2 provides a reminder that nothing lasts forever.
Amanda Lee Franck Interview By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 4th, 2021 Amanda Lee Franck is back with a pile of forthcoming projects!
Friction Burns How Disco Elysium’s Centrist Path Observes the Player By Ruth Cassidy • October 1st, 2021 “It isn’t about diplomacy, or pacifying all sides, but about absolute control.”
Rookie of the Year Broke My Golden Rule of Gaming. Here’s What Happened Next. By Matt Marrone • September 29th, 2021 Matt makes the most of a bachelor’s weekend.
Collision Detection Escaping Isolation in Concrete Genie By Ben Sailer • September 28th, 2021 Ben finds a surprisingly poignant message about the interconnectedness of commerce and community beneath the family-friendly veneer of the underappreciated painterly adventure Concrete Genie.
Casting Deep Meteo American Truck Simulator: Wyoming in Miniature By Levi Rubeck • September 28th, 2021 I’m in this convoy for the vistas, the big hauls, the roadside magic, even if it must refrain from truly mimicking the vastness of the time spent cruising those roads in real life.
This Mortal Coyle Ginger from My Time at Portia By Deirdre Coyle • September 27th, 2021 Romance and courtship in the post-dystopia.
The Dungeon Alphabet By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 27th, 2021 Time to practice our ABCs!
Revving the Engine An Unreal Curriculum By Ben Sailer • September 20th, 2021 At Abertay University, students learn the skills to thrive in an industry that’s grown into an economic and educational force.
