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…
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.
Clacking Out a Few Kind Words By Levi Rubeck • October 10th, 2019 Levi plays Kind Words, a game about comforting and being comforted.
Rookie of the Year Star Trek: The Sex Generation By Matt Marrone • October 8th, 2019 The ladies of the USS Enterprise want to get it on. Badly.
Exploits Feature Skeletons in the Closet By Sara Clemens • October 1st, 2019 “There’s always a chance to win in horror; there’s always light on the horizon, however distant. We hang in; we keep fighting.”
Feature Excerpt Ghost in the Machine By Harry Mackin • September 24th, 2019 Both the psychological thriller Personal Shopper and Breath of the Wild explore what happens when we allow technology to shape us.
Feature Excerpt Taking Control of my Sobriety By Blake Hester • September 24th, 2019 When you take addiction out of your life, you’re left with more hours in the day than you know what to do with. Luckily, there are games like Control.
Two Lives Lived – The Story of the Omm Sety By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • September 18th, 2019 An intriguing argument for the existence of reincarnation.
Razor Blades or Fancy Pants: The Story of The Real Peaky Blinders By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • September 10th, 2019 In this episode, Jen tells you the story of the real Peaky Blinders.
No Accounting for Tastes All Roads By Adam Boffa • September 10th, 2019 Despite being set over a century apart, Deadwood and Breaking Bad end up in surprisingly similar places.
The McMaster Files The Rose Colored Galaxy By Jason McMaster • September 10th, 2019 There are points when playing Rebel Galaxy Outlaw that Jason loses track of, not where he is, but when he is.
The Heavy Pour Faking it to Make It: GLOW and the Power of Performance By Sara Clemens • September 5th, 2019 GLOW is a love letter to performance and the way it intertwines with work and life.
The Glass Delusion: The Most Popular Madness of the Middle Ages By Robin Mazzolla and Jen Sisco • September 4th, 2019 Imagine, one day, you feel that your body is made of glass…
Ferris Wheels and a Murder Castle: The Chicago World’s Fair and H.H. Holmes By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • September 4th, 2019 Jen looks at the horrible history of America’s first serial killer: H. H. Holmes.
Another Look Making Lore Personal By Yussef Cole • September 4th, 2019 Yussef sees a reflection of his own relationship with games in others’ deep dives into the minutia of their mythology.
Collision Detection How an 8-Bit Football Franchise is Still Kicking By Ben Sailer • August 30th, 2019 A local competition helps Ben rediscover his love for Tecmo Super Bowl.
What To Do With All This Girldick By Autumn Wright • August 28th, 2019 “Gaming as a trans person can kinda suck. Some might say games are bad. But what if, dear readers, games are good?”
Greed and the Need to Feed – The Story of the Colorado Cannibal, Alfred Packer By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • August 27th, 2019 Perhaps the only thing more powerful than greed is hunger…
Feature Excerpt The Year Videogames Blew Up Shanghai By Mark Hill • August 26th, 2019 Unlike most first-person shooters, these two titles make you think about the very real city destroyed in the wake of your protagonist’s outsider crusades.
Feature Excerpt I Wanna Be Your Dog By Jeremy Signor • August 22nd, 2019 That awkward moment when giving up your free will to a supercomputer-powered hive mind brings out your inner sub.
Musk Comes From the Butt – The History of Perfume By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • August 20th, 2019 People stink. And through out history, they’ve done some weird things to cover it up.
A Love Letter to Bit Bash By Amanda Hudgins • August 19th, 2019 I didn’t have an idea except I wanted to smash guitars on stage, and I knew that if I was ever going to do this, it would have to be Bit Bash. I thought they would say no.
The Last Softball Player By Levi Rubeck • August 15th, 2019 “When he suggested we attend a baseball game, I wasn’t shy in my disinterest. We lost touch immediately after that.”
Queer Cooperation By Jeremy Signor • August 14th, 2019 Experiences that network queer people together are key to queer survival. That makes games that do that while fostering a sense of cooperation absolutely vital.
Collision Detection Abe’s Oddysee, Ahead of Its Time By Ben Sailer • August 14th, 2019 The PlayStation classic Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee offers poignant commentary on how to handle catastrophic circumstances that feel bigger than yourself.
Rookie of the Year Am I Dead? By Matt Marrone • August 13th, 2019 Do you ever wonder what happens to those Words with Friends rivals when you move on to other apps?
Backlog Repeating Being By Gavin Craig • August 9th, 2019 Gavin muses about repetition while he muses about repetition while he muses about….
Checkpoint SMASH By Corey Milne • August 7th, 2019 In Corey’s mind, Nintendo is only second to Disney when it comes to pure brand power. And he has the nostalgia to prove it.
Memescape Choose Your Own Twitter Thread By Alyse Stanley • August 6th, 2019 A.K.A. when Twitter role-played as Beyonce’s assistant.
The Not So Sweet Story of The Bradford Candy Scandal By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • August 6th, 2019 Would you believe that in the 19th century there were very few regulations on the preparation of food? This changed all that.
Documentary Sunday Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much By Megan Condis • August 5th, 2019 Not unlike the game show that it chronicles, watching The Perfect Bid is comforting. So long as you don’t think about it hard.
Here's the Thing Let’s Talk About Mitch Hedberg By Rob Rich • August 2nd, 2019 Rob ruminates on one of his favorite comedians and how, despite appearances, they’re still a shining example of how jokes can be hilarious without being mean.
The Kremer Museum By Stu Horvath • July 31st, 2019 Over the course of human history, the problem with paintings is that you have to go see them. With The Kremer Museum, a virtual reality art collection, that’s been changing.
The Best Party in the Afterlife – The Cave Burials of Indonesia By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • July 30th, 2019 This week’s episode centers on the intricate and unique funeral rituals of the Toraja society.
Feature Excerpt Silly Old Bear By Dick Page • July 22nd, 2019 The review-bombing of Devotion was never about Winnie the Pooh.
The Gay Dating Conundrum By Jeremy Signor • July 17th, 2019 Dating sims are increasingly taking on a queer bent, but few examine the quiet devastation of absence felt by the rural gay.
The Culture of Foot Binding By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • July 16th, 2019 Robin takes on the task of discussing the Chinese cultural practice of foot binding.
Dancing to the Drama on TikTok By Amanda Hudgins • July 15th, 2019 No editorial has ever grasped the weirdness of some Gen-Z kids dancing in the corpse of a closing J.C. Penney while a teenage girl scream-sings the Bishop Briggs song “River.”
Nothing in this Episode is Funny – The Gruesome Tale of the Castrati By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • July 9th, 2019 In this episode, Jen tells you about history’s most tragic child stars.
Documentary Sunday Shirkers By Megan Condis • July 8th, 2019 The story behind Shirkers is one of a doomed project and a bizarre cruelty.
