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Featured Story

A cropped image of the box for Molly House, with elaborate white script of the title over a red box with line drawings of dozens of characters

To Have Fun in Spite of The Tragedy of It All: The Pertinence of Molly House

By Luis Aguasvivas • March 25th, 2025

Within this box a metaphor is contained, one of festive joy experienced by a collective in conservative Georgian England.

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Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – March 2025

By David Shimomura • March 20th, 2025

We’re taking to the high seas.

Feature Excerpt

A small craft traverses a rolling sea in artwork from the videogame Spiritfarer.

Spritfarer and the Labor of Grief

By Laurie McRae Andrew • March 27th, 2025

Judith Butler helps us see how Spiritfarer’s gameplay mechanics connect labor with the politics of grief.

Feature Story

A watercolor painting of the side of a huge, lumbering bear.

Leading with Watercolor on the Seven Seas: Bear Pirate Viking Queen

By Edward Kane • March 26th, 2025

“I don’t think I’m doing anything particularly ‘untraditional,’ I am just using (maybe) different tools than what American comic book readers are used to seeing.”

Sickest Witch

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 24th, 2025

Which sick witch is the sickest witch? You!

Art for Max Payne 1 and Max Payne 2 in black and white, with the titular cop on the left holding a gun and on the right embracing a much shorter woman

So Much for Being Subtle

By Edward Smith • March 21st, 2025

That rhythmic, never-rising, never-falling delivery creates a kind of base reality for the world of Max Payne.

Here's the Thing

A top-down view of the Caves of Qud map, rendered in all its ASCII glory.

Graphics Are Never Everything

By Rob Rich • March 19th, 2025

While being able to visually enjoy (or even just parse) a game’s visuals are important, Rob isn’t a fan of just how much importance people sometimes place on them.

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