No Accounting for Taste Leap of Faith By Adam Boffa • December 4th, 2020 When game industry realism and creative ambition collide.
Self-Insert Tagging By Amanda Hudgins • December 3rd, 2020 Tagging fics is both a conversation and a function in fanfiction.
Exploits 2010 – 2019 By Stu Horvath • December 1st, 2020 Do not party like it’s 2019. Wear masks. Be socially distant. Stay home.
The Heavy Pour Christmas Time is Here By Sara Clemens • December 1st, 2020 Fact: There is one single, perfect, perennial Christmas album.
This Mortal Coyle The Forest Spirit By Deirdre Coyle • December 1st, 2020 “I would be grateful to see the forest come to life.”
Letter to a Heroine Fire Keeper By Melissa King • November 30th, 2020 Will you continue to guard the flame? Will you return to as it always has been?
World Tour Brazil By Oluwatayo Adewole • November 27th, 2020 Welcome to this month’s stop on our world tour! Take a break from post-election stress, sip your Cachaça and let’s dive right in to Bacurau.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – November 2020 By Noah Springer • November 27th, 2020 Fresh hip hop for you!
Revving the Engine Enter the Void: Solar Ash By Sara Clemens • November 25th, 2020 Unwinnable chats with Alx Preston about the follow-up to Hyper Light Drifter.
Feature Excerpt Keep Calm with a Cup of Coffee By Katiee McKinstry • November 24th, 2020 Katiee McKinstry chats with developer Andrew Jeremy about the joys of chilling out in coffee shops.
Feature Excerpt Oishi: The Yakuza and the Koan By George Umbarger • November 24th, 2020 What’s the Yakuza series have to do with Zen Buddhism? More than you think!
Always Autumn Sagittarius By Autumn Wright • November 22nd, 2020 “Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.”
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – November 2020 By Stu Horvath • November 19th, 2020 Find out what’s behind the demon skull!
Try Reading... Coven Edition By Harry Rabinowitz • November 13th, 2020 Witchy comic recommendations for our resident hexers.
Here's the Thing On The Legend of Korra and Imperfection By Rob Rich • November 4th, 2020 Korra’s way of bringing some particularly significant character flaws to light through the eyes of their children makes them feel even more like human beings.
Forms in Light Some Things Last Some of the Time By Justin Reeve • November 3rd, 2020 Why are some buildings taken apart and recycled while others are simply renovated?
Always Autumn There Are Many Ways to Apocalypse. By Autumn Wright • November 2nd, 2020 As much as it is about the extraordinary ways in which people live their normal lives, Adventure Time is comprised of endings.
Another Look Sing It Out By Yussef Cole • October 30th, 2020 Lovers Rock, one of the films in Steve McQueen’s brilliant new “Small Axe” anthology about the UK’s West Indian community from the 1960s through the 1980s, is full of a palpable and irresistible energy.
Rookie of the Year It’s Complicated By Matt Marrone • October 29th, 2020 After five years, my original Series 0 Apple Watch broke.
Letter to a Heroine Dear Krile By Melissa King • October 28th, 2020 Dear Krile, While you might not get as much attention as your fellow Scions of the Seventh Dawn, you’ll always be my favorite member.
Checkpoint Colin Kaepernick, Madden NFL 21 and the Football Future That Wasn’t By Ben Sailer • October 27th, 2020 After punting on social justice for years, Electronic Arts recently patched Colin Kaepernick back into Madden NFL 21. Don’t rush to pat them on the back.
The Fail Cycle Write Your Own Pendragon Review By Declan Taggart • October 26th, 2020 Pick your path to the fall of Camelot.
Revving the Engine Robot Champions: Fight! For Your Life! By Stu Horvath • October 26th, 2020 We seldom have a clear view on how difficult it is to make videogames. Partly this is our own fault – most folks will always suspect that making games isn’t “work” the same way that digging ditches is.
World Tour Indonesia By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 23rd, 2020 That’s why Gone With the Wind is/was revered and why we’re inundated with period pieces that refuse to meaningfully interrogate the class/colonial violence that this splendor is built upon.
Traces Ghost Stories By Diego Nicolás Argüello • October 23rd, 2020 In fact, you could consider it an anthology of sorts – one on my relationship with horror games, and on ghost stories. I’ll let you decide if they’re fictional or not.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – October 2020 By Noah Springer • October 21st, 2020 Last year, I was overwhelmed by all the quality drops over the full season, and this year, September 25 seemed to mark the beginning of the season with an amazing selection of releases I just can’t do justice.
Feature Excerpt Dungeons & Dollhouses By Orrin Grey • October 20th, 2020 I’m not going to claim that society didn’t yet have those concepts, but I hadn’t been exposed to them. I came up in small towns in the Midwest; gender norms were pretty rigid.
Feature Excerpt A Friend at the End of the World By Adam Goodall • October 20th, 2020 But what space do you and your camera occupy in this city? You’re far from an observer, an outside eye; rather, Faulkner positions the player as a site of tension in this world falling apart.
Feature Excerpt Death is Not the End By Nicholas Straub • October 20th, 2020 The inhabitants of the Dark Souls universe seek a hero to rekindle the first flame, for without it, they believe, all life will cease. But they are wrong.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – October 2020 By Stu Horvath • October 15th, 2020 This issue is packed!
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.
