I’ve Been Eaten by a Grue By Sara Clemens • April 14th, 2023 How I learned to stop worrying and love the text-based adventure.
The Heavy Pour The Monsters We Make By Sara Clemens • December 13th, 2022 As storytellers, the monsters we make are so often just mirrors.
Exploits Feature The Peripheral By Sara Clemens • October 31st, 2022 Two eras, some twisty time shenanigans and virtual reality collide in a TV adaptation of William Gibson’s novel.
The Heavy Pour What to Do for Dinner By Sara Clemens • June 7th, 2022 Some people make decisions like *that.*
A Fool’s Cap and a Plate of Ice Cream By Peter Newell and Sara Clemens • May 11th, 2022 Better a witty fool than a foolish wit!
The Heavy Pour Extra Lives By Sara Clemens • April 5th, 2022 I can hunch over Electronic Gaming Monthly in the magazine aisle and pretend to be another angsty videogame geek. Everyone knows those are boys.
The Heavy Pour I Know You Are but What Am I? By Sara Clemens • January 10th, 2022 Little Sara sends a message to an old pal.
The Heavy Pour Return with the Elixir By Sara Clemens • November 10th, 2021 Dispatches from a post-pandemic New York Comic Con.
Revving the Engine Broken Helms, Shattered Shields By Sara Clemens • August 19th, 2021 Videogame Vikings are having a moment.
The Heavy Pour Christmas Time is Here By Sara Clemens • December 1st, 2020 Fact: There is one single, perfect, perennial Christmas album.
Revving the Engine Enter the Void: Solar Ash By Sara Clemens • November 25th, 2020 Unwinnable chats with Alx Preston about the follow-up to Hyper Light Drifter.
The Heavy Pour With Friends Like These: A Wasteland Verse of TrickyPixie83 By Sara Clemens • October 6th, 2020 “I take damage, I take damage!”
The Heavy Pour Buddies By Sara Clemens • August 12th, 2020 Social distancing can be lonely. Animal Crossing makes it a little less so.
The Heavy Pour Journal of a Plague Spring By Sara Clemens • July 15th, 2020 The world’s on fire, might as well write.
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.
Exploits Feature Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special By Sara Clemens • December 2nd, 2019 Sara revisits the Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special.
The Heavy Pour This Time It’s Personal By Sara Clemens • November 6th, 2019 Sara got to meet Pee-wee Herman at this year’s NYCC and only freaked out a little.
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.
The Heavy Pour You’ll Float Too By Sara Clemens • October 11th, 2019 Sara muses on the weirdly seductive quality of clowns. Exhibit A: Pennywise.
Exploits Feature Skeletons in the Closet By Sara Clemens • October 1st, 2019 “There’s always a chance to win in horror; there’s always light on the horizon, however distant. We hang in; we keep fighting.”
Episode 15: Control By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • September 12th, 2019 The gang gets in Control for this episode of Unmissable!
The Heavy Pour Faking it to Make It: GLOW and the Power of Performance By Sara Clemens • September 5th, 2019 GLOW is a love letter to performance and the way it intertwines with work and life.
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?
The Heavy Pour Performing the Play By Sara Clemens • July 2nd, 2019 Sara gets hype over E3’s Dying Light 2 demo, glorious goofs and all.
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!
The Heavy Pour Into the Mystic By Sara Clemens • June 10th, 2019 If you’re one of the rare few terrified by horses, they’re pretty easy to avoid. Unless you play videogames.
The World Next Door Is a Nice Enough Neighbor By Sara Clemens • June 6th, 2019 Billed as hybrid of a puzzler and a visual novel with RPG elements, The World Next Door shows a lot of promise.
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.
The Heavy Pour A Subtler Magick Filled the Air: Exploring The Sinking City By Sara Clemens • May 7th, 2019 Traversing the flooded streets of The Sinking City left a lasting impression on Sara.
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!