Revving the Engine Mods & Mythology By Melissa King • November 24th, 2021 The Australian Writers’ Guild Award-winning and critically acclaimed The Forgotten City had humble beginnings as a Skyrim mod.
Feature Excerpt Roleplaying Freedom: Joel Rosenberg and White Fantasies of Oppression By Noah Berlatsky • November 23rd, 2021 Rosenberg’s depiction of liberation is less about those liberated and more about the moral awakening of the white liberator.
Feature Excerpt Rebels Without a Cause By Gerry Hart • November 19th, 2021 Watchdogs: Legion could have been a powerful or at least insightful piece of cultural commentary. It’s more like the Kylie Jenner Pepsi advert.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – November 2021 By David Shimomura • November 15th, 2021 Our November issue is here but also NEW COLUMNIST ALERT!
No Accounting for Taste Music and Memory in Midgar By Adam Boffa • November 12th, 2021 Final Fantasy VII Remake uses its music to dramatically reshape a familiar story.
Here's the Thing The Immersive Nature of Tedium By Rob Rich • November 12th, 2021 Rob talks about why he often enjoys tedium in videogames, and how it can make them feel more immersive.
Forms in Light The Best of Worlds By Justin Reeve • November 11th, 2021 Megacorporations can’t be trusted to pursue any sort of progressive politics.
The Heavy Pour 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 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.
Collision Detection Rethinking Retro Remakes With Tunnel B1 By Ben Sailer • November 5th, 2021 We’re in the middle of a retro shooter renaissance. Why not mine the forgotten past for ideas and inspiration?
This Mortal Coyle The Ultimate Apocalypse Team By Deirdre Coyle • November 4th, 2021 Hunters/Gatherers/MacGyver-ers Assemble!
Try Reading... ShortBox Indie Sampler By Harry Rabinowitz • November 3rd, 2021 When it comes to short, complete comics, the indie section is king.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – October 2021 By Noah Springer • October 31st, 2021 Noah doesn’t review Donda.
Revving the Engine Connecting with Tetrominoes By Diego Nicolás Argüello • October 30th, 2021 Last year, Tetris Effect: Connected promised a way to come together even as we were suspended in our quarantine bubbles. It still delivers.
Feature Excerpt Pendragon and Anti-Fascist Medievalism By Ruth Cassidy • October 29th, 2021 “Camelot has, for the moment, fallen, but the dream of Camelot – of a sane Government by consensus, led by an Arthur and not a Mordred – must and will live on.”
Feature Story Reconsidering Rotoscoped Animation for its Second Century By Morgan Galen King • October 28th, 2021 Rotoscoping puts the human body in the spotlight, where the focus on the body and its relationship to the fictional world around it is ever-present.
Feature Excerpt A World Beyond: The Inadvertent Sci-Fi of Universal’s Original Mummy Sequels By Orrin Grey • October 27th, 2021 If you think about it, mummies are the original time travelers.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – October 2021 By David Shimomura • October 18th, 2021 Welcome to the Spoopy Issue!
Feature Excerpt Blasting the Canon By Andrew Goddard • October 7th, 2021 What classical music can teach us about constructing a videogame canon
Feature Excerpt Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s Crises of Faith By Ryan Stevens • October 6th, 2021 Assassin’s Creed has long been able culture clash, but what about clashes of faith?
Here's the Thing Here’s The Thing: Separating the Artist From Art By Rob Rich • October 5th, 2021 An artist is not their work, and Rob thinks it’s astonishing that some people don’t seem to understand this.
Forms in Light When Cities Die By Justin Reeve • October 4th, 2021 Walking around Washington, D.C. in The Division 2 provides a reminder that nothing lasts forever.
Always Autumn Summer’s End: a disjoint on home By Autumn Wright • October 1st, 2021 “There was one question I could never answer. Why Autumn?”
Rookie of the Year Broke My Golden Rule of Gaming. Here’s What Happened Next. By Matt Marrone • September 29th, 2021 Matt makes the most of a bachelor’s weekend.
Collision Detection Escaping Isolation in Concrete Genie By Ben Sailer • September 28th, 2021 Ben finds a surprisingly poignant message about the interconnectedness of commerce and community beneath the family-friendly veneer of the underappreciated painterly adventure Concrete Genie.
This Mortal Coyle Ginger from My Time at Portia By Deirdre Coyle • September 27th, 2021 Romance and courtship in the post-dystopia.
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 Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – September 2021 By Noah Springer • September 22nd, 2021 And now for something a little different.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – September 2021 By David Shimomura • September 17th, 2021 Do you remember? The 143rd issue this September!
Burnt Offering Notes on a Train Trip By Stu Horvath • September 16th, 2021 In Chaosium’s Horror on the Orient Express the journey is your final destination.
Rookie of the Year Folk On By Matt Marrone • August 24th, 2021 Matt goes outside, to a concert of all things!
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – August 2021 By Noah Springer • August 23rd, 2021 Noah goes mainstream!
Feature Excerpt The Mutated City By Zsolt David • August 17th, 2021 The world living in the husk of another.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – August 2021 By David Shimomura • August 16th, 2021 One more trip to the Wasteland, and other stories, in Issue 142.
Forms in Light Glitz and Glamor By Justin Reeve • August 13th, 2021 What lurks below the surface of Yakuza 6’s dual settings?
Here's the Thing 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.
