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Succession

By Sara Clemens • June 1st, 2023

Fuck off.

Several games from Infocom's library of text adventures, including the Zorks, Planetfall and Trinity, among many others. The graphics are decidedly 80s.

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
Several monstrous costume pieces hanging in a booth at New York Comicon, including masks for Scream's Ghostface and Jason's hockey mask from the Friday the 13th franchise.

The Monsters We Make

By Sara Clemens • December 13th, 2022

As storytellers, the monsters we make are so often just mirrors.

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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
Detail of a red brick wall hand-drawn in colored pencil.

What to Do for Dinner

By Sara Clemens • June 7th, 2022

Some people make decisions like *that.*

Two panels of a larger comic strip in which a rich man is served a plate of ice cream while a fool takes notice.

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
A line drawing of a girl in cutoff jean shorts and sneakers hanging upside down from a large tree branch. She is beaming.

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
A bird's-eye view of the 2021 New York Comic Con show floor.

Return with the Elixir

By Sara Clemens • November 10th, 2021

Dispatches from a post-pandemic New York Comic Con.

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Text that reads "Medusa" in Greek.

Medusa

By Sara Clemens • September 30th, 2021

A retelling.

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A dog on a green blanket.

Little Brother

By Sara Clemens • August 25th, 2021

A story about a dog, a brother.

Revving the Engine
A Norse figure stands with axe and shield on top of a massive hammer.

Broken Helms, Shattered Shields

By Sara Clemens • August 19th, 2021

Videogame Vikings are having a moment.

The Heavy Pour
An illustrated Gillian Anderson in bed with David Duchovny and Chris Carter based on the iconic photo.

Creep

By Sara Clemens • May 14th, 2021

Whatever makes you happy. Whatever you want.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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!

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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.

Episode 7 – Game of Thrones

By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • May 22nd, 2019

Winter is here!

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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!

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