Unwinnable Monthly – October 2019 By Stu Horvath • October 17th, 2019 It’s October, and that means the latest issue of Unwinnable Monthly is full of horrors of all sorts…
Forms in Light Anomalous Architecture By Justin Reeve • October 14th, 2019 If some of the buildings look weird in Yakuza Kiwami 2, you can blame Japanese regulations.
No Accounting for Tastes Countdown to Extinction By Adam Boffa • October 14th, 2019 In Hayao Miyazaki’s grandest work, humans confront extinction.
Here's the Thing Rebooting Saturday Mornings with Netflix By Rob Rich • October 12th, 2019 It’s been decades since Rob has set aside time for Saturday morning cartoons, but Netflix has brought that very specific brand of nostalgia back with a number of unexpectedly clever reboots.
The Heavy Pour You’ll Float Too By Sara Clemens • October 11th, 2019 Sara muses on the weirdly seductive quality of clowns. Exhibit A: Pennywise.
Rookie of the Year Star Trek: The Sex Generation By Matt Marrone • October 8th, 2019 The ladies of the USS Enterprise want to get it on. Badly.
This Mortal Coyle The Exile from Grim Soul By Deirdre Coyle • October 1st, 2019 Deirdre survived a lonely summer by escaping to an equally lonely game.
The Usurper Noteworthy Metal – September 2019 By Astrid Budgor • September 30th, 2019 Prepare your ears for lots and lots of doom and grind.
Feature Excerpt Ghost in the Machine By Harry Mackin • September 24th, 2019 Both the psychological thriller Personal Shopper and Breath of the Wild explore what happens when we allow technology to shape us.
Feature Excerpt Taking Control of my Sobriety By Blake Hester • September 24th, 2019 When you take addiction out of your life, you’re left with more hours in the day than you know what to do with. Luckily, there are games like Control.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – September 2019 By Stu Horvath • September 16th, 2019 Welcome to the September issue of Unwinnable Monthly!
Rookie of the Year Live From a Picnic Bench at the 2019 Newport Folk Festival By Matt Marrone • September 13th, 2019 In the words of Caamp: Woo-hoooooooo.Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo …
Checkpoint Sometimes, Pixelated Spectacle Is All You Need By Corey Milne • September 12th, 2019 Domina wasn’t what Corey expected, but, hey, at least there’s wine to go with all that gore.
Collision Detection How an 8-Bit Football Franchise is Still Kicking By Ben Sailer • August 30th, 2019 A local competition helps Ben rediscover his love for Tecmo Super Bowl.
Noteworthy Hip Hop – August 2019 By Noah Springer • August 29th, 2019 Noah’s endlessly fascinated by the deep range and mutability of hip hop’s subgenres.
Documentary Sunday Betting on Zero By Megan Condis • August 27th, 2019 Multi-level marketing schemes may sell products, but people are really buying in for the prospect of “opportunity”.
Feature Excerpt The Year Videogames Blew Up Shanghai By Mark Hill • August 26th, 2019 Unlike most first-person shooters, these two titles make you think about the very real city destroyed in the wake of your protagonist’s outsider crusades.
Feature Excerpt What Makes a Game Trash? By Evan Dennis • August 22nd, 2019 While it’s easy for a game to fall into being trashy, it takes a bit of lucky circumstance for a game to be fully trash.
Feature Excerpt I Wanna Be Your Dog By Jeremy Signor • August 22nd, 2019 That awkward moment when giving up your free will to a supercomputer-powered hive mind brings out your inner sub.
Unwinnable Monthly – August 2019 By Stu Horvath • August 16th, 2019 Summer is on its way out, but Unwinnable Monthly is here to keep your spirits up!
Rookie of the Year Am I Dead? By Matt Marrone • August 13th, 2019 Do you ever wonder what happens to those Words with Friends rivals when you move on to other apps?
Forms in Light Planning Novigrad By Justin Reeve • August 12th, 2019 If The Witcher 3’s largest city seems easy to navigate, it’s all in your head.
Backlog Repeating Being By Gavin Craig • August 9th, 2019 Gavin muses about repetition while he muses about repetition while he muses about….
No Accounting for Tastes Undoing Ruin By Adam Boffa • August 8th, 2019 In Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki provides an early glimpse of the concerns – and hopes – that would inform his filmmaking career.
Checkpoint SMASH By Corey Milne • August 7th, 2019 In Corey’s mind, Nintendo is only second to Disney when it comes to pure brand power. And he has the nostalgia to prove it.
Memescape Choose Your Own Twitter Thread By Alyse Stanley • August 6th, 2019 A.K.A. when Twitter role-played as Beyonce’s assistant.
Here's the Thing Let’s Talk About Mitch Hedberg By Rob Rich • August 2nd, 2019 Rob ruminates on one of his favorite comedians and how, despite appearances, they’re still a shining example of how jokes can be hilarious without being mean.
Another Look Evangelion and Endings By Yussef Cole • August 1st, 2019 Twenty years later, what’s it like to watch the anime that made you stop watching anime?
The Kremer Museum By Stu Horvath • July 31st, 2019 Over the course of human history, the problem with paintings is that you have to go see them. With The Kremer Museum, a virtual reality art collection, that’s been changing.
Feature Excerpt Silly Old Bear By Dick Page • July 22nd, 2019 The review-bombing of Devotion was never about Winnie the Pooh.
Feature Excerpt Springfield Forever By Noah Springer • July 22nd, 2019 Some mobile games are only entertaining for a few hours. For Noah, The Simpsons Tapped Out has proven fun for nearly a decade.
Unwinnable Monthly – July 2019 By Stu Horvath • July 15th, 2019 You’ve probably already watched the season of Stranger Things, so why not binge on the latest issue of Unwinnable Monthly?
Here's the Thing I Gave Up on Dark Souls to Play Dragon’s Dogma By Rob Rich • July 11th, 2019 Rob has always had a love/hate relationship Dark Souls, but it wasn’t until recently playing Dragon’s Dogma again that he realized why.
Rookie of the Year I Beat Bethesda By Matt Marrone • July 10th, 2019 Matt achieved just about everything in the “Early Access” version of The Elder Scrolls: Blades without paying a cent.
Checkpoint Baker Dill and the Justice Tuna By Corey Milne • July 9th, 2019 Corey spoils Serenity, an incredibly stupid film that’s still managed to burrow into his subconscious.
Documentary Sunday Shirkers By Megan Condis • July 8th, 2019 The story behind Shirkers is one of a doomed project and a bizarre cruelty.
The Burnt Offering Grab Bag By Stu Horvath • July 5th, 2019 Stu has a handful of thoughts on everything from The Name of the Rose to dungeon synth.
No Accounting for Tastes The More the Avengers Change, the More They Stay the Same By Adam Boffa • July 4th, 2019 The Russo brothers told us Infinity War stood on its own. So what should we make of Endgame?
Collision Detection When Amazon Gamifies Hell, Who’s Gaming Who? By Ben Sailer • July 3rd, 2019 Videogames placed in Amazon warehouses are allegedly intended to boost employee morale. However, reality may be less altruistic than the company’s PR spin.
This Mortal Coyle Hoshi from How to Date a Magical Girl By Deirdre Coyle • July 1st, 2019 Why bother trying to date in a dating sim when you can play with one very good dog!
