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An etching of Boston harbor during the Great Boston Fire of 1872.

Boston is Burning!

By Justin Reeve • May 5th, 2022

Many of the structures were too tall to reach by fire ladder and there wasn’t enough water pressure in the fire hoses to put out the flames on some of the rooftops.

A sepia photograph of seven men in coats and hats standing on a temporary ramp ascending to the top of the still under-construction Brooklyn Bridge.

As the Sea-Gull Flies

By Emily Price • May 4th, 2022

The success of the Met in the last few months has inspired a new museum that has opened in our very own South Brooklyn: The Sea-Gull Gallery, a two-story establishment not five blocks from our offices.

A grainy sepia photograph of the windows on a New Jersey apartment building.

Meet the Met!

By Matt Marrone • April 29th, 2022

While no one would mistake the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a restaurant or trading post, its moniker lacks a certain. . . flair.

A sepia-toned pen and ink lithograph of three men each looking into an arm of a tripod microscope

We Should Pay Attention to Germ Theory!

By Rob Rich • April 28th, 2022

Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch have an interesting theory about sickness, and we should start paying attention.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – April 1872

By David Shimomura • April 15th, 2022

A trip down memory lane for this special milestone!

The Heavy Pour
A line drawing of a girl in cutoff jean shorts and sneakers hanging upside down from a large tree branch. She is beaming.

Extra Lives

By Sara Clemens • April 5th, 2022

I can hunch over Electronic Gaming Monthly in the magazine aisle and pretend to be another angsty videogame geek. Everyone knows those are boys.

Rookie of the Year
A close-up on a bowl of cornflakes. A single slivered almond features prominently.

How to Play ‘Crunch of the Day’

By Matt Marrone • April 1st, 2022

Matt dishes the deets on the newest breakfast game sweeping the nation.

Here's the Thing
A still from The Secret of NIMH featuring Mrs. Brisby looking worried. She is a light brown field mouse with large eyes. She wears a red cloak.

I Used to be That Guy

By Rob Rich • March 14th, 2022

Rob talks a bit about the type of person he used to be, and why he’s glad things have changed.

Another Look
In a browned-out videogame screen, a soldier in fatigues faces off against two mud-colored tanks.

Killing My People

By Yussef Cole • March 4th, 2022

My mother once walked in on my brother and I playing a PlayStation game called SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs. She interrupted our session, asking why we were “killing our people?”

Collision Detection
A blurry photo of a clock reading quarter-to-twelve. It looks as if the viewer is the one with blurred vision.

Pressing Pause

By Ben Sailer • March 2nd, 2022

Ben gets his year-end wrap-ups from various entertainment services and has an unexpected epiphany.

Casting Deep Meteo
A fiery meteor cascades through an inky blue sky.

An Introduction

By Levi Rubeck • February 9th, 2022

A word of explanation on the particular alchemy of interests that fascinate and beguile our newest magazine columnist.

Another Look
An Atari videogame console with wood-grain detailing on the front panel. Includes joystick.

My Cousin’s Atari

By Yussef Cole • February 4th, 2022

Yussef receives a shock to the system (in more ways than one).

Rookie of the Year
The exterior of a sun-drenched, palatial red-bricked home. (It is not Matt Marrone's new house.)

I Bought a House

By Matt Marrone • February 3rd, 2022

Matt offers his tips on buying your first home.

The Heavy Pour

I Know You Are but What Am I?

By Sara Clemens • January 10th, 2022

Little Sara sends a message to an old pal.

Another Look
A blocky gray and black Nintendo Entertainment System console from the late 80s.

Better Late than Never

By Yussef Cole • December 7th, 2021

On always being a few steps behind in a never-ending videogame console race.

The Heavy Pour
A bird's-eye view of the 2021 New York Comic Con show floor.

Return with the Elixir

By Sara Clemens • November 10th, 2021

Dispatches from a post-pandemic New York Comic Con.

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.

Rookie of the Year
A sun, superimposed with a crosshair, sets behind a craggy mountain.

The Summers Wind

By Matt Marrone • November 8th, 2021

Sometimes nostalgia is a gut-punch from the past. Sometimes it’s a nice breeze. More often than not? It’s both.

Always Autumn
Sunset over the Florida Everglades.

Summer’s End: a disjoint on home

By Autumn Wright • October 1st, 2021

“There was one question I could never answer. Why Autumn?”

Eyeing Elsewhere

It Takes a Village

By Phillip Russell • September 24th, 2021

Evangelion has always been interested in cycles, in unpacking oneself through the looping of experience.

The Heavy Pour
A dog on a green blanket.

Little Brother

By Sara Clemens • August 25th, 2021

A story about a dog, a brother.

Rookie of the Year
The Busking Stage from the Newport Folk Festival

Folk On

By Matt Marrone • August 24th, 2021

Matt goes outside, to a concert of all things!

Feature Excerpt
The Vault Dweller from Fallout 3 walks among the ruins of Washington DC.

The Mutated City

By Zsolt David • August 17th, 2021

The world living in the husk of another.

Forms in Light
The entrance gate to Kamurocho illuminated at night.

Glitz and Glamor

By Justin Reeve • August 13th, 2021

What lurks below the surface of Yakuza 6’s dual settings?

Here's the Thing
She-Ra and company celebrating and cheering.

How She-Ra Helped Me (Seriously)

By Rob Rich • August 13th, 2021

Rob talks about how, of all things, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power helped him figure out how to address his pandemic-related anxiety.

Collision Detection
A medieval castle hallway.

The Role-Playing Television Future of Tomorrow, Yesterday

By Ben Sailer • August 12th, 2021

VR, the hard way. The really hard way.

Rookie of the Year
Rows of weathered headstones in a cemetery.

Things I’ve Learned About Being on the Board of a Cemetery Because I’m Getting Someone Else’s Email

By Matt Marrone • August 11th, 2021

Somewhere, “Natt Narrone” is on the board of a cemetery and has been missing important emails.

Traces
Four shady guys in a car together.

Simulando

By Diego Nicolás Argüello • August 6th, 2021

Realizing you’ve been in somebody else’s shoes

Letter from the Editor
Sebulba from Star Wars piloting an N64 console with controller pods.

Unwinnable Monthly – July 2021

By David Shimomura • July 15th, 2021

It’s getting hot in here. In the July issue and on Earth.

A Godzilla figure standing among some books.

The Seduction of Solitude

By Harry Mackin • July 14th, 2021

Harry Mackin discusses the long lost last year

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.

Traces
Mother Base, an oil rig turned into a military base.

From the Man Who Sold the World

By Diego Nicolás Argüello • July 10th, 2021

“In our struggle to survive the present, we push the future away,”

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.

Try Reading...
A bird, a ghost, and a girl travel together among falling leaves.

Magical Grieving

By Harry Rabinowitz • July 1st, 2021

Harry digs into some heavier topics via middle-grade graphic novels!

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.

Always Autumn
A green and white exit sign.

Egress

By Autumn Wright • June 3rd, 2021

Autumn explores cycles, hurtling towards the way out of things.

Collision Detection
An array of NFL team logos.

Controlling the Future in Five Minutes or Less

By Ben Sailer • June 1st, 2021

Ben gets hooked on pretending to draft players for his favorite football team, and maybe, just maybe, learns something along the way. Or not.

The Heavy Pour
An illustrated Gillian Anderson in bed with David Duchovny and Chris Carter based on the iconic photo.

Creep

By Sara Clemens • May 14th, 2021

Whatever makes you happy. Whatever you want.

Forms in Light
A scene of the world of Xenoblade Chronicles

Members

By Justin Reeve • May 11th, 2021

The bodily architecture of Xenoblade Chronicles.

Rookie of the Year
A birthday cake with candles that say 10.

Rookie of the Decade

By Matt Marrone • May 5th, 2021

Happy Birthday to Matt Marrone’s column!

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