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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.

An image that shows two figures holding light sabers aloft with text that reads "Jedi Temple Challenge"

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.

a very loaded baked potato

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?

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.

Episode 7 – Game of Thrones

By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • May 22nd, 2019

Winter is here!

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