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Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – May 2023

By David Shimomura • May 16th, 2023

Welcome to myths and legends.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – April 2023

By David Shimomura • April 18th, 2023

New look, same writers!

A crayon drawing of a red Formula 1 style car

Bahrain Recap and Onto Saudi Arabia!

By David Shimomura • March 16th, 2023

The cars went ZOOM and this weekend they’ll do it again!

A crayon drawing of a red Formula 1 style car

Learner’s Permit: Anatomy of a Race Weekend

By David Shimomura • March 16th, 2023

What is a “race weekend” anyway?

Letter from the Editor
A brick.

Unwinnable Monthly – March 2023

By David Shimomura • March 16th, 2023

Another brick thrown against the wall.

F1winnable
A crayon drawing of a red Formula 1 style car

Welcome to F1winnable!

By David Shimomura • February 28th, 2023

It begins.

Letter from the Editor
A series of fleshy, toothy monstrosities on a log ride.

Unwinnable Monthly – February 2023

By David Shimomura • February 17th, 2023

Statistically, no one can spell February correctly on the first try.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – January 2023

By David Shimomura • January 19th, 2023

Welcome to 2023!

Feature Story
The Peltzer family stands on their porch at the end of Gremlins, several of them looking worse for wear.

On Gremlin-tology

By David Shimomura • December 21st, 2022

As humans, we like to have answers as to why. Why did my brand-new air fryer work only once? Why did my car just sputter and stop? Why did that airplane go down for seemingly no reason? Gremlins.

Letter from the Editor
A selection from the cover art for Unwinnable Monthly #158, featuring several gremlins from the movie Gremlins grinning at the viewer.

Unwinnable Monthly – December 2022

By David Shimomura • December 15th, 2022

Welcome to the Gremlins issue! But before you dig in, there are some rules that you’ve got to follow…

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – November 2022

By David Shimomura • November 15th, 2022

Welcome new subscribers! We’re so happy to have you aboard!

Feature Story
A painting of the many-headed King Ghidorah surrounded by a hazy orange glow. The three heads are roaring into the sky.

Monstrous

By David Shimomura • October 22nd, 2022

Monsters, necessarily, cannot be “bad.” Instead, like many horrors, the true monsters are dark reflections of our anxieties and stresses.

Letter from the Editor
Two skeletal soldiers, one with a sword and shield and the other with a spear.

Unwinnable Monthly – October 2022

By David Shimomura • October 17th, 2022

Let the spoopy season begin!

Exploits Feature

Dies Irae

By David Shimomura • October 3rd, 2022

Four dreadful notes.

Letter from the Editor
A shark person standing in front of a field of video monitors.

Unwinnable Monthly – September 2022

By David Shimomura • September 19th, 2022

Welcome to the spoopy season, new columnists await!

Feature Story

Team Unwinnable Fireside Chats

By David Shimomura • August 26th, 2022

This month, David chats with Unwinnable co-owner and vice publisher, Sara Clemens.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – August 2022

By David Shimomura • August 19th, 2022

WARNING: Contains New Columnist!!!

Feature Story
On the Doom cover art, the game's protagonist is standing on a ridge using a machine gun to fight off hellish monsters.

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
A narrow view of the Doomslayer in a hallway full of dead demons with a cacodemon looming behind.

Unwinnable Monthly – July 2022

By David Shimomura • July 17th, 2022

We ripped and tore and this is what was done.

Feature Story
A close-up photo of a log burning in a roaring fire, the flames like yellow liquid.

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
Pixel art Ghosts in front of haunted house.

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
A large golden upper body looms large.

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
A crucifix

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
A woman with short tousled hair looks straight ahead at the viewer, smiling a smirky half-smile.

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
Commander Shepard wearing a Santa hat and looking magnanimous.

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
A black and tan image of someone firing a canon.

Unwinnable Monthly – September 2021

By David Shimomura • September 17th, 2021

Do you remember? The 143rd issue this September!

Letter from the Editor
A black and white drawing of a figure standing in a post apocalyptic wasteland.

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
Sebulba from Star Wars piloting an N64 console with controller pods.

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
A close up of Zagreus from Hades.

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.

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