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Author: David Shimomura

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!

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!

Two African American women with weapons, between them in the distance is a guy crucified on a dead car.

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!

a group of characters from Cartoon Network games surrounding a splashy logo that says "CN Match Land"

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.

A dark brown couch, shot from below.

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.

Find Your Sheet Cake

By David Shimomura • December 11th, 2018

Red Dead Redemption 2 asks too much.

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.

in gentle line art there is a tiny grandma standing exuberantly on top of a table her arms upstretched

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.

a mothra with wings out spread in the blue gloom

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.

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