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!
Backlog Fire, Loss and the Works of Hands By Gavin Craig • July 1st, 2019 Notre Dame will never be the same after April’s fire. Another chapter will be written in its story as it’s rebuilt.
Revving the Engine Jupiter & Mars By Stu Horvath • June 28th, 2019 James Mielke guides us through the post-human neon ocean of Jupiter & Mars.
Noteworthy Hip Hop – June 2019 By Noah Springer • June 27th, 2019 Noah Springer’s hip hop musings make the jump from the web to Unwinnable Magazine proper.
Feature Excerpt Lo-Fi Hip Hop Beats To Have a Nervous Breakdown To By Ana Diaz • June 25th, 2019 At least an entire generation working themselves to death can listen to some cozy beats while they do it.
Feature Excerpt Order and Chaos By Justin Reeve • June 24th, 2019 Behind Hitman 2‘s stark, modernist buildings lies a symbolic crusade to reclaim the architectural style.
Unwinnable Monthly – June 2019 By Stu Horvath • June 16th, 2019 Get a nice cold lemonade (bourbon optional) and kick back with the latest issue of Unwinnable Monthly!
Pets Feature Seven Videogame Chickens, Listed from Least to Most Likely to Kick My Ass By Melissa King • June 7th, 2019 Look at all these chickens.
Collision Detection Dogs of War By Ben Sailer • June 5th, 2019 Sure video game dogs make for great meme material, but good boys have been serving since World War I.
Revving the Engine Hyper Jam By Stu Horvath • June 4th, 2019 Unwinnable talks to the folks behind the neon-soaked arena brawler Hyper Jam.
Pets Feature Responsible Petting By David Shimomura • May 30th, 2019 What could be stressful about running a Twitter account about petting virtual dogs? A lot, apparently.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – May 2019 – PETS! By Stu Horvath • May 16th, 2019 Made possible by our last subscription drive, the Pets Issue is here!
