David Shimomura

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.

Last Week’s Comics 8/24/2016

By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • August 24th, 2016

The Last Week’s Comics team reviews The Wicked + The Divine # 22 and Justice League # 3.

Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV is Irredeemably Awful

By David Shimomura • August 23rd, 2016

When I realized it was playing only five minutes from my house, I decided to see Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV. Fans seemed to love it and I appreciate that. Considering the recent delay to Final Fantasy XV I thought this might be a nice way to sate myself in the meantime. It was not. Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV is the worst movie to be released this year. Anyone who enjoys even the most basic “filmic” qualities of a movie will struggle to find anything worthy of redemption here. Its plot is incoherent and few of the characters are motivated to do

Last Week’s Comics 8/18/2016

By Sara Clemens, Sal Lucci and David Shimomura • August 18th, 2016

Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on this week’s Creepy Archives Vol. 4 and last week’s Darth Vader # 24 and All Star Batman # 1.

What’s in a Name? Everything.

By David Shimomura • August 15th, 2016

“It’s evidence of the casualness of colonialism. I renamed dozens of things before even stopping to think about it.”

Last Week’s Comics 8/10/2016

By David Shimomura, Michael Edwards and Sara Clemens • August 10th, 2016

Last Week’s Comics are here and the crew is ready to talk about Batman #4, Suicide Squad Rebirth #1, and Paper Girls #8.

Last Week’s Comics 8/3/2016

By Ian Gonzales and David Shimomura • August 3rd, 2016

Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on this week’s James Bond # 8 and last week’s Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps # 1.

The Media Diet

By David Shimomura • August 2nd, 2016

A two week fast on one show or band is exactly what we need in an era of binge watching and trailer gluttony.

Last Week’s Comics 7/27/2016

By Ian Gonzales, David Shimomura and Sara Clemens • July 27th, 2016

The LWC gang shares their thoughts on this week’s ElfQuest, Cryptocracy & Predator Vs Judge Dredd Vs Aliens in this week’s erroneously named Last Week’s Comics.

The Future of Pokemon After Pokemon GO

By David Shimomura • July 25th, 2016

Pokemon GO has shown us where Pokemon can go, but just how far will it go?

Last Week’s Comics 7/20/2016

By David Shimomura, Sara Clemens and Sal Lucci • July 20th, 2016

Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on last week’s The Wicked + The Divine and this week’s Dresden Files: Wild Card and The Black Hammer.

Long Live Emulators

By David Shimomura • July 18th, 2016

The implications the NES Classic Edition has on games preservation are massive.

Burning Down In-Game Chat is a Good Idea

By David Shimomura • July 14th, 2016

What do we actually gain from in-game chat other than a feed of anger, racial slurs, homophobia and implications about our mothers?

Surrounded by Rent-a-Cops: An AR Story

By David Shimomura • July 12th, 2016

Niantic has a history of making people walk like doofuses and attract unwanted attention from cops.

Last Week’s Comics 7/7/2016

By David Shimomura and Michael Edwards • July 6th, 2016

Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on two new number one issues – Cryptocracy and Hillbilly.

Smiling Mobs

By David Shimomura • June 27th, 2016

Will this year’s sale have you adding to your library or your backlog?

The Dad Pad Isn’t as Patronizing as It Seems

By David Shimomura • June 20th, 2016

Let’s hear it for the dads who spent Father’s Day playing FIFA in Two Button Mode. It may not just be for dads, though.

Disengage the Simulator

By David Shimomura • June 15th, 2016

David gets post-modern as he wrestles with the idea of being a video game. You are tearing me apart, Elon!

Last Week’s Comics 6/15/2016

By Ian Gonzales, Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • June 15th, 2016

Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on The Wicked + The Divine # 20, Injection # 10 and Action Comics # 957.

Blockhood and the City Organism

By David Shimomura • June 10th, 2016

“Everything in Block’hood is interdependent on everything else, and the resources form a perfect circle of consumption.”

Last Week’s Comics 6/8/2016

By Ian Gonzales, David Shimomura and Michael Edwards • June 8th, 2016

Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on last week’s Hellboy In Hell # 10, Power Rangers: Pink # 1 and this week’s Prometheus: Life And Death # 1.

Uncharted 4 Is Miserable to Play

By David Shimomura • May 23rd, 2016

What can you say when a game looks nice, sounds nice, but is terrible to play?

Last Week’s Comics 5/18/2016

By Ian Gonzales and David Shimomura • May 18th, 2016

Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on Actionverse: Stray # 1 and Batman # 52.

A Less-Than-Sunny Press Release from the Nintendo of 2020

By David Shimomura • May 12th, 2016

It’s less of a good time to be Nintendo, here in the year 2020.

A Sunny Press Release from the Nintendo of 2020

By David Shimomura • May 12th, 2016

It’s a great time to be Nintendo here in the year 2020!

Last Week’s Comics 5/4/2016

By Ian Gonzales and David Shimomura • May 4th, 2016

Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on Batman # 51 and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl # 7.

Earth Day Savior, and Other In-App Purchases

By David Shimomura • April 29th, 2016

It was just Earth Day! Did you do your part to save our little, blue marble and buy hats for your avatar?

Last Week’s Comics 4/26/2016

By Ian Gonzales, David Shimomura and Michael Edwards • April 27th, 2016

Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on this week’s The Doorman # 2, Conan the Avenger # 25, last week’s 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank # 1 and James Bond # 6.