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?
Episode 9 – Mass Effect By Sara Clemens, David Shimomura and Gavin Craig • June 19th, 2019 Gavin Craig joins the gang to talk about all things Mass Effect!
Unmissable – Episode 8 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • June 5th, 2019 Game of Thrones is over, so let’s have Stu Horvath on to discuss it, even though he didn’t watch the show.
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.
Unmissable – Episode 6 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • April 25th, 2019 Part 2 of our Jordan Peele mega-episode sees Yussef Cole and Davis Cox join the conversation.
Unmissable: Episode 5 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • April 15th, 2019 It’s part one of a Jordan Peele double header!
Unmissable: Episode 4 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • March 28th, 2019 It’s all about games on this week’s episode of Unmissable!
Unmissable: Episode 3 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • March 13th, 2019 Yussef Cole sits in to discuss The Favourite, Sunshine vs. Event Horizon, Destiny and more!
Far Cry: New Dawn’s Only Compelling Feature is Blowing Things Up with Stu By David Shimomura • March 6th, 2019 None of Far Cry: New Dawn feels like it’s meant to be experienced with another person. It’s especially not meant to be experienced with someone who is a decidedly chaotic force such as myself.
Unmissable: Episode 2 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • February 28th, 2019 Hey, it’s our second episode! Yussef Cole pulls up a chair.
The Might of Keiki Kobayashi’s Ace Combat 7 Soundtrack By David Shimomura • February 19th, 2019 Keiki Kobayashi might not be Hans Zimmer but in terms of effect achieved he’s damn close.
The Bleeps and Bloops of Destiny are Necessary Worldbuilding By David Shimomura • February 12th, 2019 With everything going on in Destiny and its DLC and successors you’d think that the small, repetitive sounds that eventually become background noise as you’re playing would be easily forgotten.
Unmissable: Pilot By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • February 6th, 2019 Hey, we finally have a podcast!
The Stoic Beauty of Matching Three Things By David Shimomura • January 29th, 2019 Now, it’s Cartoon Network Match Land helping me fill the minutes.
See it from the Couch By David Shimomura • January 15th, 2019 I think there’s value in public experiences. But I also think we should acknowledge the power of choosing to engage completely on our terms.
A Gift From the Algorithm: Crokinole By David Shimomura • December 18th, 2018 Trying to understand why any particular video on YouTube gets recommended to any particular person is probably as easy to do as land a spaceship on the moon.
The Lost Magic of Disney’s Animation By David Shimomura • December 4th, 2018 Disney is remaking Aladdin and The Lion King in CGI. It is a terrible mistake.
Lore’d of the Rings: The Horror of Knowledge By David Shimomura • November 27th, 2018 They say knowledge is power, but sometimes it is just isolating.
Robbing Banks Like We Never Stopped By David Shimomura • November 19th, 2018 “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” -Heroclitus
On “Pooping Themselves with Anger” By David Shimomura • November 13th, 2018 It isn’t always about you. And that’s OK.
American Vandal Season Two: The Kids Aren’t Alright By David Shimomura • November 6th, 2018 American Vandal Season Two tackles both turd and teen vulnerability.
Exploits Feature The Draw of “Live” By David Shimomura • November 1st, 2018 Despite access to all the content in the world via broadband streaming, live performance will never lose its allure.
Halloween 2018 is an Unwelcome Trip Down Memory Lane By David Shimomura • October 30th, 2018 We’re stuck with a sequel with a 40-year time gap where mostly the same thing happens, except one of the characters is old and paranoid.
Unwinnable Week 3 Horror Movies! By David Shimomura • October 20th, 2018 Is it still October? Then Unwinnable still has horror movie recs for y’all.
Nukes Are Bad By David Shimomura • October 16th, 2018 Nuclear weapons are terrifying. Videogames would do well to remember that.
[Yells in Foreign Language] By David Shimomura • October 10th, 2018 The Yakuza series doesn’t offer an English dub for its dialogue. That’s a good thing.
The Uncomfortable Thoughtlessness of Spider-Man By David Shimomura • October 2nd, 2018 Spider-Man works hard to portray Peter as a guy good, but it fails to find nuance in incarcerated populations, foreigners and the ecosystem of New York itself.
The Amazing Wholesomeness of Being a Grandma By David Shimomura • September 25th, 2018 Hungry Hearts Dinner is simply a very, very well-made game that does a fair amount of tugging at even the coldest heart strings.
The New Godzilla Trailer is Awesome and Sublime By David Shimomura • August 21st, 2018 Together, “awe” and the “sublime” remind us of the feeling of being small before something greater than ourselves.
Tau is Mindbogglingly Bland By David Shimomura • August 14th, 2018 Tau is about a woman slowly teach an AI about music, art, and history as she tried to escape from the clutches of an emotionally vacant murderer.
War on Words: Mobile v. Handheld By David Shimomura • July 17th, 2018 It’s why the recent trend to enforce the artificial barrier between “mobile” and “handheld” is so tenuous and dangerous.
