The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – February 2021 By Noah Springer • March 1st, 2021 Hey you guys! Noah is doing album roundups again!
Feature Excerpt We Found Love in a Chatless Place: Community through Silent Multiplayer By Emma Kostopolus • February 26th, 2021 Painting in a world where no one has mouths but they must speak.
Feature Excerpt Videogame Chamber Music By William Dowell • February 26th, 2021 “One Winged Angel” is plenty haunting to start but then you hear the string quartet version. Find out what goes into that.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – February 2021 By Stu Horvath • February 14th, 2021 February sure is long for the shortest month, right? Pass the time with the new Unwinnable Monthly.
Try Reading... 50 Years Later, Superman Defeats the Klan Again By Harry Rabinowitz • February 10th, 2021 Superman punching Nazis, chucking Klansmen and standing up for diversity has never been this good.
Heaven from the Other Side By Yussef Cole • February 8th, 2021 Blasphemous serves as an aesthetic exploration of the mind of the devout.
Letter to a Heroine Mei By Melissa King • February 5th, 2021 “News stories don’t always have to be major, they just have to matter.”
Rookie of the Year More Songs About Bob and Judy By Matt Marrone • February 3rd, 2021 Did David Byrne invent Twin Peaks? Matt thinks so.
Here's the Thing No Man’s Sky vs. Cyberpunk 2077 By Rob Rich • February 2nd, 2021 The edgelords never get what they want, do they?
Forms in Light Marble Madness By Justin Reeve • February 1st, 2021 Marble, marble, everywhere. Why is it all white and shiny?
The Beat Box RIP MF DOOM By Noah Springer • January 29th, 2021 Just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man name.
Revving the Engine Torchlight III: Relight the Torch By Jason McMaster • January 28th, 2021 A little time, some love and some Diablo DNA and what do you get?
Always Autumn Loxahatchee Boys By Autumn Wright • January 27th, 2021 There is a queerness to winter in Florida.
Collision Detection In Videogames, Everybody’s Working for the Weekend By Ben Sailer • January 26th, 2021 Work sucks, I know.
Feature Excerpt The Thrill of Being the World’s Only Active Player By Henry Ewins • January 21st, 2021 I wanted to know how and why developers can be inspired to go so against the grain that they sacrifice what seems like the most fundamental of any creator’s wants – having an audience…
Feature Excerpt The Plagues of Dunwall By Alma Roda-Gil • January 21st, 2021 The rich and powerful never think that the problems of the common people will affect them.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – January 2021 By Stu Horvath • January 15th, 2021 Happy new year, gang! Let’s see how Unwinnable is kicking off 2021.
Here's the Thing Why I’m Leaving YouTube By Rob Rich • January 13th, 2021 After almost five years and hundreds of videos, Rob’s calling it quits and it’s all YouTube’s fault.
Forms in Light Bizarre Banality By Justin Reeve • January 12th, 2021 The house in Gone Home is WEIRD.
Collision Detection Countering COVID-19 Disinformation in Five Minutes or Less with Go Viral! By Ben Sailer • January 8th, 2021 Separating fact from fiction on the Internet and in the media is more difficult than ever. In the middle of a global pandemic, the consequences are potentially lethal. Could a simple browser game be part of the solution?
Letter to a Heroine Fischl By Melissa King • January 7th, 2021 Was it lonely, being left in your library by yourself? I was lonely like you once, too.
This Mortal Coyle Joy Johnson-Johjima from Monster Camp By Deirdre Coyle • January 6th, 2021 If I overheard someone talking about a bookish goth who listens to Rumours on repeat too much, I’d assume they were talking about me.
Self-Insert Rarepairs By Amanda Hudgins • January 5th, 2021 Their pairing often isn’t just not canon – it’s so far off the beaten path that other writers maybe don’t even see it themselves…
World Tour Germany By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 4th, 2021 Bring out your beers and your bratwurst, and let’s get going! On tap: Herzog’s Aguirre and Wenders’ Wings of Desire.
Rookie of the Year 365 Days of Halloween By Matt Marrone • December 29th, 2020 Practically every time we saw Phoebe Bridgers in 2020, she was wearing a full-body skeleton costume.
Try Reading... A Year at a Comics Store By Harry Rabinowitz • December 28th, 2020 If you ever encounter a good bookseller, be nice to them. Okay? Okay.
Traces Marching On By Diego Nicolás Argüello • December 23rd, 2020 “I am the end. Do you understand? This world, and this tapestry, I would devour. It is my purpose.”
Noteworthy Hip Hop Rediscovering 24-Carat Black By Noah Springer • December 22nd, 2020 Noah talks to Zach Schonfeld about his new book on the overlooked legacy of funk and soul band 24-Carat Black.
Try Reading... Avatar Forever By Harry Rabinowitz • December 21st, 2020 Writer Gene Luen Yang understands exactly what made Avatar great, and continues the magic in comic book form.
Always Autumn Winter’s Wind By Autumn Wright • December 21st, 2020 If death is inevitable in Outer Wilds, then so is Timberhearth.
Revving the Engine Adios: Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long By Stu Horvath and David Shimomura • December 18th, 2020 Unwinnable talks to Doc Burford about his forthcoming game Adios, a melancholy game about a pig farmer who won’t dispose of the mob’s bodies any more.
Feature Excerpt Birth of Masculine Bodies By Zsolt David • December 17th, 2020 Press button to move legs.
Feature Excerpt Who Firewatches the Firewatchers By Caroline Delbert • December 17th, 2020 Marshall played Firewatch and thought being a firewatcher sounded good, so he volunteered.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – December 2020 By Stu Horvath • December 15th, 2020 Volume 7 comes to a close. Find out what treasure this issue contains!
The Fail Cycle Fight or Flummoxed By Declan Taggart • December 15th, 2020 Declan wrestles with a puzzle game…
Forms in Light Formal and Vernacular Architecture By Justin Reeve • December 14th, 2020 The game world in Breath of the Wild is filled with interesting architecture
Collision Detection On Videogames, Accessibility and the Winter From Hell By Ben Sailer • December 10th, 2020 Videogames are more accessible than ever thanks to increased digitization. Facing what will be the harshest winter in a generation, this is a godsend that is easy to miss, but should not be taken for granted.
Rookie of the Year I’m Slowly Cracking Under the Weight of Tap Sports Baseball By Matt Marrone • December 9th, 2020 Now I live in fear that my favorite player of all time will show up in a mystery box.
