The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – October 2020 By Noah Springer • October 21st, 2020 Fresh beats for fall!
Feature Excerpt Death is Not the End By Nicholas Straub • October 20th, 2020 By just thinking, by existing, you exude a remarkable power: a power that proves existence will never end.
Feature Excerpt A Friend at the End of the World By Adam Goodall • October 20th, 2020 In Umurangi Generation, the camera isn’t a weapon, its a friend.
Feature Excerpt Dungeons & Dollhouses By Orrin Grey • October 20th, 2020 “The fantasy is that problems have simple solutions.”
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – October 2020 By Stu Horvath • October 15th, 2020 Biggest issues of the year so far. Let’s see what’s inside!
No Accounting for Taste Patterns in the Ivy By Adam Boffa • October 9th, 2020 What can city-building games tell us about climate change?
Here's the Thing Alone in Duskers By Rob Rich • October 8th, 2020 Rob reminisces about his favorite roguelike, which is also one of his favorite horror games.
Forms in Light Architectural Improvisation By Justin Reeve • October 7th, 2020 A look at the repurposed architecture of Metro: Exodus.
The Heavy Pour With Friends Like These: A Wasteland Verse of TrickyPixie83 By Sara Clemens • October 6th, 2020 “I take damage, I take damage!”
Another Look Tragedy Erased By Yussef Cole • October 5th, 2020 “Bury my mother, pale and slight, bury my father, eyes shut tight! Bury my sisters, two by two, and then when you’re done, let’s bury me too!”
Rookie of the Year Neighborhood Must-Watch By Matt Marrone • October 2nd, 2020 “I was both there and not there during a gunfight that both did and did not tear through my quiet slice of Astoria.”
Collision Detection We Can’t Afford to Log Off By Ben Sailer • October 1st, 2020 Twitter isn’t just a time-wasting hellsite. It’s also the world’s worst multi-user dungeon.
Revving the Engine Project Witchstone: The World is Yours By Stu Horvath • September 30th, 2020 Has the day finally when a videogame that can rival the narrative freedom of a tabletop roleplaying game?
This Mortal Coyle Roach from The Witcher By Deirdre Coyle • September 30th, 2020 Roach is always there for me.
The Fail Cycle Looking Back While Moving On By Declan Taggart • September 29th, 2020 Family lives for nostalgia, but it’s not saying that things used to be better in the good old days.
Traces There’s No Youth Anymore By Diego Nicolás Argüello • September 28th, 2020 Deadly Class, the thrill of lying to your parents and the fading of freedom.
Letter to a Heroine Isabelle By Melissa King • September 28th, 2020 Melissa King appreciates Isabelle from Animal Crossing.
Self-Insert Niche Interests By Amanda Hudgins • September 25th, 2020 “Sometimes, in fiction, you write about your experience so vividly, so precisely, that it could not have come from anyone but you.”
World Tour Finding the poetry in The Burial of Kojo By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 24th, 2020 An existential wail, followed by a look at Ghanaian film The Burial of Kojo.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – September 2020 By Noah Springer • September 23rd, 2020 In honor of the new old Tony Hawk game, we’ve got hip hop to grind to.
Feature Excerpt Watching Myself Die By Phillip Russell • September 22nd, 2020 On Blackness in The Last of Us
Feature Excerpt Four Brief Discussions of Cultist Simulator and Planescape: Torment By Violet Adele Bloch • September 22nd, 2020 A sketch.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – September 2020 By Stu Horvath • September 21st, 2020 Your guided tour to this month’s table of contents.
Here's the Thing That $70 Sword of Damocles By Rob Rich • September 14th, 2020 With an impeding ninth video game console generation looming on the horizon, people have begun buzzing (read: arguing) about a proposed game MSRP of $70. Now Rob wants to weigh in.
Always Autumn Fall is an Ending and it is Ending. By Autumn Wright • September 11th, 2020 “Autumn is the ending of things and we are in its third stanza.”
Rookie of the Year Parallel AIs By Matt Marrone • September 10th, 2020 Person of Interest > Westworld
The Fail Cycle GeoGuessr: A Travelogue By Declan Taggart • September 9th, 2020 “This would be so much easier if we just Googled the restaurant,” I say. She nods, slowly, sympathetically. “But we’re not filthy disgusting cheaters, are we? Declan?”
Traces The Ones Who Understand By Diego Nicolás Argüello • September 8th, 2020 “It turns out that no matter how much you’ve written in your lifetime, very few people will consider your work if it’s in a foreign language.”
World Tour England By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 4th, 2020 Oluwatayo starts his tour on his home turf of England with the film Bait and the latest album from Charmpit.
Collision Detection Baseball is Dead, Long Live Blaseball By Ben Sailer • September 3rd, 2020 The only thing weirder than the satirical baseball sim Blaseball is actual professional baseball.
Try Reading... Descending Into Yourself By Harry Rabinowitz • September 2nd, 2020 Iasmin Omar Ata has published a hard and honest debut novel tackling epilepsy, isolation and illness
Revving the Engine No Straight Roads: Rock Will Never Die By Stu Horvath • September 1st, 2020 Unwinnable chats with co-founder Daim Dziauddin about Metronomik’s new, rockin’ adventure: No Straight Roads.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – August 2020 By Noah Springer • September 1st, 2020 “We’re still in quarantine, and I’m still listening to beats and rhymes.”
Feature Excerpt Talkin’ ‘Bout Bugsnax By Melissa King • August 28th, 2020 A look at how Kero Kero Bonito came up with gaming’s happiest bop of the summer.
Feature Excerpt The Relatable Dystopia By Mark Hill • August 28th, 2020 Mirror’s Edge is one of the few franchises to acknowledge that every dystopia is someone’s utopia.
Feature Excerpt Your Choices Matter: The Real Power Fantasy By Ruth Cassidy • August 28th, 2020 An interview with the co-narrative leads on Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire about subverting that power fantasy of the Chosen One.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – August 2020 By Stu Horvath • August 17th, 2020 All the usual great stories, plus three new columnists!
Another Look Learning How to Share By Yussef Cole and Vivian Chan • August 14th, 2020 Sharing credit shouldn’t feel like sacrificing your reputation or taking away from what you have accomplished, especially when you are sharing it with someone close to you.
Revving the Engine A Long Walk in the Woods By Stu Horvath • August 14th, 2020 “I want people to leave my games feeling like they’ve been somewhere else.”
