Feature Story DOOM Retrospective By David Shimomura • July 25th, 2022 DOOM didn’t invent the first-person shooter. But DOOM did invent the Doomclone. Without DOOM are we certain we’d see the advent of so many imitators?
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – July 2022 By David Shimomura • July 17th, 2022 We ripped and tore and this is what was done.
Feature Story A Chat With the Publisher By David Shimomura • June 22nd, 2022 Editor in chief David Shimomura sits down with Publisher Stu Horvath to reflect on the state of Unwinnable past and present.
Letters from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – June 2022 By David Shimomura • June 17th, 2022 New month, new decade…sort of.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – May 2022 By David Shimomura • May 18th, 2022 New Columnist Alert!!
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – April 1872 By David Shimomura • April 15th, 2022 A trip down memory lane for this special milestone!
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – March 2022 By David Shimomura • March 15th, 2022 Driving games! College classes! Too many exclamation points!
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – February 2022 By David Shimomura • February 17th, 2022 February is cold and unforgiving. But we still make a magazine!
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – January 2022 By David Shimomura • January 18th, 2022 It’s time for our January issue! We’ve got new friends for you!
Feature Story The Unbearable Lightness of Deathloop By David Shimomura • December 23rd, 2021 In the moment it is easy to love Deathloop but, upon reflection, it feels as though it was barely even there.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – December 2021 By David Shimomura • December 16th, 2021 It’s the last Month(ly) of the Year!
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – November 2021 By David Shimomura • November 15th, 2021 Our November issue is here but also NEW COLUMNIST ALERT!
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – October 2021 By David Shimomura • October 18th, 2021 Welcome to the Spoopy Issue!
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – September 2021 By David Shimomura • September 17th, 2021 Do you remember? The 143rd issue this September!
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.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – July 2021 By David Shimomura • July 15th, 2021 It’s getting hot in here. In the July issue and on Earth.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – June 2021 By David Shimomura • June 15th, 2021 The June issue is here, let David show you around…
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – May 2021 By David Shimomura • May 17th, 2021 Back to a single Letter from the Editor. The one true letter.
Letters from the Editors Unwinnable Monthly, April 2021 By David Shimomura and Stu Horvath • April 15th, 2021 Big doings on the party boat this month! Oh, and all the normal magazine stuff too!
Bloodlines Empire of Sin: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Jank By David Shimomura • January 18th, 2021 Who needs perfection?
Bloodlines Destiny 2: Season of Forgiveness By David Shimomura • January 13th, 2021 Destiny 2 asks you to move on. No amount of levelling or experience will help you do that.
Revving the Engine Adios: Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long By Stu Horvath and David Shimomura • December 18th, 2020 Unwinnable talks to Doc Burford about his forthcoming game Adios, a melancholy game about a pig farmer who won’t dispose of the mob’s bodies any more.
Bloodlines Specter of Aesthetic Play By David Shimomura • September 2nd, 2020 Ghost of Tsushima is a love-sick letter to the tone and feel of pop culture samurai media.
The Best Star Wars Show is a Weird Game Show By David Shimomura • July 20th, 2020 In truth, there’s almost nothing original in Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge outside of the “dark side.” The show really is just Legends of the Hidden Temple with a veneer from a galaxy far, far away.
Bloodlines Suspending the Drop By David Shimomura • July 6th, 2020 Let the beat build and build forever.
Bloodlines A Long Time Ago: A Star Wars Story By David Shimomura • June 29th, 2020 Being a lightsaber duelist isn’t like riding a bike.
Bloodlines The Long, Slow Process of Animal Crossing By David Shimomura • June 22nd, 2020 Plodding on and on.
Bloodlines Plucking at the Web By David Shimomura • June 15th, 2020 Break out the cork board and red string in A Hand With Many Fingers.
Bloodlines We’re Not Alone in the Shadows By David Shimomura • June 8th, 2020 Horror director David Sandberg returns to his short film roots to tap pandemic anxieties.
Bloodlines Corona Standard Time By David Shimomura • June 1st, 2020 Time isn’t even a flat circle anymore.
Bloodlines Evil Genius is a Rotting Colossus By David Shimomura • May 25th, 2020 Let old things die, kill them if you have to.
Loading the Potato: A Song of Doom, Eternal By David Shimomura • March 31st, 2020 Certainly, Doom Eternal is bigger, louder, badder and more filled with gore than its predecessor.
Episode 17: Tiny Islands, Watchmen By David Shimomura and Sara Clemens • December 4th, 2019 Double episode today: David and Sara dig into the new videogame Tiny Islands and the Watchmen TV series.
Episode 16: Joker By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • October 23rd, 2019 On tap: Joker, Paul Reubens and a bad version of Phantom of the Opera.
Episode 15: Control By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • September 12th, 2019 The gang gets in Control for this episode of Unmissable!
Episode 14: The Terror By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • August 28th, 2019 It’s back to television this week as David and Sara discuss The Terror on Unmissable!
Episode 13: Blackout Club By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • August 14th, 2019 Come for the Stranger Things comparisons, stay for the harrowing tales of sins Unwinnablers committed!
Episode 12: Midsommar By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • August 3rd, 2019 It’s all about horror in the daylight and getting eaten by bears on this episode of Unmissable as the gang brings back Yussef Cole to talk Midsommar!
Episode 11 – Stranger Things By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • July 18th, 2019 Stranger Things are afoot as Sara and David talk about the third season of Netflix’s popular 80s pastiche
Episode 10 – Black Mirror By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • July 4th, 2019 Topher Grace’s best performance, Miley + Nine Inch Nails 5ever and, uh, would VR sex even actually work?
