The McMaster Files A Smaller World By Jason McMaster • May 10th, 2020 With everything that’s going on, Jason’s found that his favorite Twitch streamers have helped make things a bit easier and the world a little smaller.
The McMaster Files Chasing Ephemeral Highs in Escape from Tarkov By Jason McMaster • April 8th, 2020 A.K.A. Turning to virtual worlds to feel alive when the real one doesn’t cut it.
The McMaster Files Ghosts in the Machine By Jason McMaster • February 4th, 2020 What happens to our digital life when we die?
The McMaster Files The Dreamers of the Dreams By Jason McMaster • January 14th, 2020 Jason says goodbye to the architect behind one fondly remembered virtual bastion.
The McMaster Files The Mundane and the Sublime By Jason McMaster • December 6th, 2019 In Death Stranding, you can measure your progress by what you have built and contributed to the world.
The McMaster Files 1994 via the Year 40,000 By Jason McMaster • October 9th, 2019 Gladius accomplished the near-impossible: transforming Jason from a critic into a fan again.
The McMaster Files The Rose Colored Galaxy By Jason McMaster • September 10th, 2019 There are points when playing Rebel Galaxy Outlaw that Jason loses track of, not where he is, but when he is.
The McMaster Files Putting the “U” in Trauma By Jason McMaster • July 12th, 2019 In the vein of Dwarf Fortress and Rim World, Barotrauma players make their own stories. And an uncanny number of them end in death.
The McMaster Files When Building a Banana Republic, Morality Isn’t Exactly a Priority By Jason McMaster • May 3rd, 2019 Tropico 6 has a lot of personality, so long as you don’t mind getting your hands dirty.
The McMaster Files The Rules By Jason McMaster • March 30th, 2019 Mental illness can make a person obsessive, which – as Jason finds – makes it nearly impossible to dislike games.
The McMaster Files Mooncrash’s Slow Burn Delivers By Jason McMaster • February 7th, 2019 Jason rarely doubles back to play a game’s DLC. But Prey’s Mooncrash is worth the trip.
The McMaster Files RimWorld and the Iffy Prospect of Early Access By Jason McMaster • November 13th, 2018 RimWorld is one of the handful of games Jason considers to be the best of this decade, a game many people tried to create but failed – the Dwarf Fortress-like.
The McMaster Files The Deal By Jason McMaster • August 14th, 2018 New life in the McMaster household brings with it a somber remembrance of friends past.
The McMaster Files What Parts Remain? By Jason McMaster • March 30th, 2018 Life really sucks and hurts most of the time, but if we cut out and manage all the bits that make us feel, what parts remain?
The McMaster Files Through the Ages By Jason McMaster • February 1st, 2018 Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization is a wonderful game Jason McMaster never wants to play again.
The McMaster Files Gloomhaven By Jason McMaster • January 3rd, 2018 I can’t wait to get back to Gloomhaven.
The McMaster Files The Pain is in the Remembering By Jason McMaster • November 27th, 2017 As a child, I didn’t know where to put that sadness and anger. That’s why I didn’t expect my reaction to Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus.
The McMaster Files Destiny 2 Nails It By Jason McMaster • October 27th, 2017 Destiny 2 is pretty good, it turns out.
The McMaster Files What’s Old is New Again By Jason McMaster • October 12th, 2017 XCOM never stopped being great.
The McMaster Files The Slow Quiet Mortality of the Long Dark By Jason McMaster • September 5th, 2017 Jason’s been killed by Nazis, mystical beasts and the hordes of hell, but this is the first time he’s ever been afraid of the snow.
The McMaster Files Stimulants and Gaming By Jason McMaster • June 6th, 2017 The McMaster Files took a sample product from a PR flack and had to figure out something to write about it…
The McMaster Files Zombicide: Black Plague By Jason McMaster • February 23rd, 2017 Tired of zombies? Don’t hold it against Zombicide: Black Plague – there’s way more to it than hordes of the undead.
The McMaster Files Far Harbor By Jason McMaster • February 10th, 2017 Fallout 4‘s Far Harbor may be impossible to play, thanks to Jason’s memories of the real Bar Harbor.
Persistence of T.I.M.E. By Jason McMaster • January 12th, 2017 What might sound like an old Quantum Leap episode is the entire crux of the game – jumping back in time to make sure things go the way they should.
Fear in a Handful of Cards By Jason McMaster • January 5th, 2017 “You’re trapped in your parlor. The door is gone. Outside you hear the skittering of… things. Things you can’t comprehend.”
The McMaster Files Kumite By Jason McMaster • November 25th, 2016 “When I say survival, I mean making your way through a virtual world where you need to seek shelter and to eat and sleep. There are a few games that, as always, stand out.”
It Takes Character By Jason McMaster • September 15th, 2016 Unwinnable is giving away copies of the Machines of War bundle for Heroes of the Storm!
The McMaster Files – Episode 4: Rod Humble By Jason McMaster • January 15th, 2016 Jason McMaster is joined by Rod Humble from ToyTalk to discuss EverQuest and The Sims.
One Last Flight By Jason McMaster • November 19th, 2015 We configured and set up the rig and the copy of X-Plane I had purchased. Then we sat in that small room and I watched my dad fly.
Unwinnable Presents: The McMaster Files – Episode 2: Tim Stellmach and Chris Siegel By Jason McMaster • September 15th, 2015 Jason McMaster talks to former Looking Glass developers Tim Stellmach and Chris Siegel about their new project Underworld Ascendant.
Unwinnable Presents: The McMaster Files – Episode 1: Derek Smart By Jason McMaster • July 15th, 2015 Welcome to The McMaster Files! In the debut episode, Jason talks to Derek Smart of Battlecruiser and Line of Defense fame!
Unwinnable Presents: The McMaster Files – Assassin’s Creed Unity By Jason McMaster • November 11th, 2014 The McMaster Files makes fun of Assassin’s Creed Unity while flying through the air with the greatest of ease.
Unwinnable Presents: The McMaster Files – The Evil Within By Jason McMaster • October 15th, 2014 In the debut episode of The McMaster Files, Jason and Chuck Moran dissect the trailer for The Evil Within. With humor, not knives.
