Last Week’s Comics 3/22/2017 By David Shimomura and Sara Clemens • March 22nd, 2017 Team Unwinnable cuddles up with returning old favorites Injection and Sex Criminal. No, we didn’t mean that to sound dirty. Not at all.
We Need a Real Nemesis System By David Shimomura • March 13th, 2017 “What if any game forced you to own up to the potentially thousands of people you may have wronged?”
Breath of the Wild is Great But Inaccessible By David Shimomura • March 6th, 2017 “My dream was for the Switch to blow up the gates to gaming, to be open to as many people as possible. Instead, one of its best launch titles is the gates incarnate.”
Last Week’s Comics 3/1/2017 By David Shimomura and Sara Clemens • March 1st, 2017 Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on James Bond: Black Box # 1 and Sex Criminals # 16.
Can the Switch Pave a Casual Road to the Future? By David Shimomura • February 27th, 2017 The Switch’s ability to be tossed in a bag and played with friends is a balm to a rising tide of games for gamers.
The Three John Wickiest Games By David Shimomura • February 13th, 2017 David Shimomura recreates that John Wick feeling in some popular shooters.
There is Nothing Virtual About VR By David Shimomura • February 6th, 2017 “The issue with “virtual reality” as a term isn’t the virtual part, it’s the reality part.”
What’s in a game? By David Shimomura • January 30th, 2017 “I believe in the widest, biggest, most inclusive definition of videogames.”
Playing Should be Replaying By David Shimomura • January 23rd, 2017 We need to replay games in the same way we reread books. We need to be reminded of their value and revisit them with the intellectual baggage of everything we’ve played since.
Last Week’s Comics 1/18/2017 By David Shimomura and Ian Gonzales • January 18th, 2017 Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on God Country # 1 and James Bond: Hammerhead # 4.
The Road to Pokémon World By David Shimomura • January 16th, 2017 Pokémon Sun and Moon is a balm in a sea of aggression.
Last Week’s Comics 1/11/2017 By David Shimomura, Michael Edwards and Sara Clemens • January 11th, 2017 Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on this week’s James Bond: Felix # 1, Red Sonja # 1 and last week’s The Wicked + The Divine # 25.
XenoVerse 2 Makes You Earn a Dragon Ball Z Staple By David Shimomura • January 9th, 2017 “XenoVerse 2 doubles down on something at the heart of Dragon Ball, training, getting whooped, training, and then coming back better and stronger than before.”
Last Week’s Comics 1/4/2017 By David Shimomura, Ian Gonzales and Sal Lucci • January 4th, 2017 Team Unwinnable share their thoughts on Clean Room # 15, AD After Death # 2 and Hulk # 1.
New Year’s Resolution: Introspect Nostalgia to Death By David Shimomura • January 2nd, 2017 Why do we get so thrilled at the prospect of new Power Rangers but are so hurt when we see the trailer?
On the Necessity of Bombast By David Shimomura • December 19th, 2016 “Now, for the first time, I understand the importance of the yearly, over the top, Michael Bay-rific explosion fest.”
The Year of the Secondary Character By David Shimomura • December 12th, 2016 “Secondary characters have always been around, but 2016 feels like the year that they exceeded their “secondary” status in important and necessary ways.”
Last Week’s Comics 12/7/2016 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • December 7th, 2016 Team Unwinnable takes a look at Saga and Bob’s Burgers: Char Broiled Collection.
Gwent is the Boxing of Card Games By David Shimomura • December 5th, 2016 “In a funny way, Gwent has more in common with boxing than it does with card games.”
Last Week’s Comics 11/23/2016 By David Shimomura and Michael Edwards • November 23rd, 2016 Team Unwinnable reviews Southern Cross #9 and Army of Darkness/Xena Warrior Princess #2.
Civilization VI Has the Best Opening. Ever. By David Shimomura • November 17th, 2016 “Sometimes, something as simple as an introduction can remind us that, as a civilization, we’ve come so very far but that we’ve still so much further to go.”
Music Matters, Use it Wisely By David Shimomura • November 14th, 2016 Music can make or break a game.
Last Week’s Comics 11/9/2016 By David Shimomura, Sara Clemens and Sal Lucci • November 9th, 2016 Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on this week’s James Bond #11 & James Bond: Hammerhead #2 and last week’s The Wicked + The Divine #23 and Mayday #1.
Last Week’s Comics 11/2/2016 By David Shimomura and Sara Clemens • November 2nd, 2016 Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on last week’s Saga #39 and Batman Beyond #1.
Last Week’s Comics 10/26/2016 By Ian Gonzales and David Shimomura • October 26th, 2016 Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on this week’s Serenity: No Power in the ‘Verse #1 and last week’s Infamous Iron Man #1.
Last Week’s Comics 10/19/2016 By Sara Clemens, Michael Edwards and David Shimomura • October 19th, 2016 Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on this week’s Spell on Wheels and KISS premiers and last week’s Darth Vader finale.
Westworld is Full of Monsters, They’re the Guests By David Shimomura • October 18th, 2016 Westworld is a lot more like Hostel than it is Red Dead Redemption.
Last Week’s Comics 10/12/2016 By Ian Gonzales, David Shimomura, Sal Lucci and Sara Clemens • October 12th, 2016 Ian Gonzales interviews Box Brown about Tetris: The Games People Play and the LWC Team reviews Paper Girls, Clean Room and Batman.
Want Japanese? Better Pre-order! By David Shimomura • October 11th, 2016 Final Fantasy 7 will require you a pre-order for the original, Japanese voice acting. You’ll also get a crazy, chibi guy that wants to destroy the world.
Last Week’s Comics 10/5/2016 By Michael Edwards, Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • October 5th, 2016 Team Unwinnable reviews this week’s James Bond 007, last week’s Saga and X-Men ’92!
First Look: Galactic Junk League By David Shimomura • October 3rd, 2016 The Great Pacific garbage patch will reach the stars someday, so let’s make spaceships out of them and fight it out with a little trucker chic.
This Week’s Comics 9/28/2016 By Ian Gonzales, Sal Lucci, Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • September 28th, 2016 The LWC gang shares their thoughts on a slew of Dark Horse Comics! We review the latest Tarzan of the Planet of the Apes, Elf Quest and Cryptocracy issues.
The Horrifying Simplicity of Elections By David Shimomura • September 26th, 2016 Local political analyst, David Shimomura, finds some frightening similarities between real politics and a game making a caricature of the political process.
Last Week’s Comics 9/21/2016 By David Shimomura and Michael Edwards • September 21st, 2016 Team Unwinnable reviews this week’s Hellboy and the BPRD 1954: Black Sun # 1 and last week’s All Star Batman # 2.
BioShock Reskinned, Not Remastered By David Shimomura • September 19th, 2016 What do you call a remaster that doesn’t remaster the original? A reskinning.
MTV Cribs: Mankind Divided Edition By David Shimomura • September 12th, 2016 The way people make a place our of space can be one of the most defining characteristics about them. Just take care to do it right.
Last Week’s Comics 9/8/2016 By Sal Lucci, David Shimomura and Michael Edwards • September 7th, 2016 Team Unwinnable share their thoughts on The Killer Inside Me # 1, The Witcher: Curse of Crows # 1 and Predator Vs. Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens #2.
Shut Up and Play the Moments By David Shimomura • September 6th, 2016 Madden is doing the smart thing by lowering the cost of entry to their franchise and making players into human highlight reels.
Last Week’s Comics 8/31/2016 By David Shimomura and Sara Clemens • August 31st, 2016 Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on Clean Room # 11 and She Wolf # 3.
Metroidvanias, Roguelikes and Dungeons&CallOfQuesters By David Shimomura • August 29th, 2016 Metroidvania, roguelike-like, just how far have these titles drifted from their original meaning? They’re words we all understand, for better or worse.
