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The Color of Truth is Gray

By Stu Horvath • February 22nd, 2011

Stu Horvath reviews Guerrilla Games’ Killzone 3 for Complex and isn’t terribly impressed.

Unwinnable Patriotic

A Very Special Presidents’ Day Challenge

By Stu Horvath • February 21st, 2011

On Presidents’ Day, Unwinnable revealed that contributor Dave Trainer might be a descendant of John Wilkes Booth and called for a scion of Lincoln to give him a thrashing in the boxing ring. No champion has come forth. In honor of Independence Day, we renew our call.

A Chronicle of Rage and Frustration

By Stu Horvath • February 17th, 2011

Stu Horvath attempts to catalog the most difficult and challenging videogames since the turn of the millennium – before his heart gives out with frustration.

X-men First Class Cast

X-Men: First Flub

By Stu Horvath • February 10th, 2011

Fox promised fans that the X-Men: First Class trailer would be on the movie’s Facebook page on February 2nd, 2011. When it didn’t appear as promise, fans nearly rioted.

LittleBigRemakes

By Stu Horvath • February 8th, 2011

Complex takes a look at the best videogame remakes made with the design tools in LittleBigPlanet2 and then interviews Martin Lynagh, Media Molecule producer.

The American Culture of Horror: Dead Space

By Stu Horvath • January 28th, 2011

Unwinnable’s look at American Horror comes to an end with a look at the Dead Space videogame franchise and our Special Relationship with the United Kingdom.

The American Culture of Horror: Three Things

By Stu Horvath • January 27th, 2011

Unwinnable’s look at American Horror continues with an examination of the John W. Campbell story Who Goes There? and John Carpenter’s 1981 remake The Thing.

The American Culture of Horror: Folklore and Stephen King

By Stu Horvath • January 26th, 2011

Unwinnable’s look at American Horror continues with our native folklore, our desire to reinterpret and the work of our current grand master, Stephen King.

The American Culture of Horror: Isolation and the Loss of Self

By Stu Horvath • January 25th, 2011

Unwinnable investigates American Horror. Every culture has its own particular fears – for America, it is isolation and the loss of self.

Dead Terrifying

By Stu Horvath • January 25th, 2011

Dead Space 2 Reviewed for Complex

I am a Wasteland Waiting for a Spaceship to Save me From the Zombies

By Stu Horvath • January 21st, 2011

Color me surprised, but Patton Oswalt’s Zombie Spaceship Wasteland is one of the most endearing books I have read in recent memory.

Tom Hardy Will Attempt to Break the Bat

By Stu Horvath • January 19th, 2011

Tom Hardy will play Bane and Anne Hathaway will play Catwoman in the next and final Batman film helmed by Christopher Nolan.

Jim Lee Talks DC Universe Online

By Stu Horvath • January 19th, 2011

DC Comics co-publisher Jim Lee talks to Complex about developing the long awaited MMO, DC Universe Online, his love of MMOs and his own DCUO character.

Roguelike

By Stu Horvath • January 11th, 2011

Unwinnable honcho Stu Horvath waxes enthusiastic for the iPad and iPhone game 100 Rogues and takes the opportunity to look back on his history with roguelike games.

Sleepers and Also-Rans

By Stu Horvath • January 6th, 2011

In my debut for Complex, I take a look at the sleepers and also-rans of 2010.

Pete Postlethwaite Dead at 64

By Stu Horvath • January 3rd, 2011

Unwinnable bids farewell to character actor Pete Postlethwaite, who died Sunday in Shropshire, England, after a prolonged fight with cancer.

The Future is Now

By Stu Horvath • January 3rd, 2011

Team Unwinnable gets excited about videogames, comic books, movies and television shows coming down the pipe in 2011.

The Best Videogames of 2010

By Stu Horvath • December 31st, 2010

Team Unwinnable picks the best videogames of 2010

A Traditional Christmas

By Stu Horvath • December 25th, 2010

Stu Horvath’s definition of a Traditional Christmas is probably a lot different than yours. Or maybe, not so different after all…

Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam

What’s a Little BFing between Friends?

By Stu Horvath • December 21st, 2010

Team Unwinnable loves Battlefield to the point of creepiness…

Mass Reject

By Stu Horvath • December 17th, 2010

The newly announced Mass Effect 3 boasts a teaser trailer that defines the word “unexciting.”

You Heard it Here First

By Stu Horvath • December 8th, 2010

Unwinnable thinks it knows what Jenner whispered to Rick at the end of the Walking Dead season finale on AMC.

A Spector is Haunting Disney

By Stu Horvath • December 7th, 2010

Unwinnable contributor Ebenezer Samuel interviews videogame designer Warren Spector for the New York Daily News.

Zombies and Laboratories Don’t Mix

By Stu Horvath • December 6th, 2010

AMC’s The Walking Dead narrowly avoids disaster in a season finale set in a scientific facility – the kiss of death for a zombie story.

Load Previous Save?

By Stu Horvath • November 26th, 2010

A great and engaging story clashes violently with a legion of glitches and bugs in Fallout: New Vegas. Will our hero survive the battle?

Uncle Billy’s Bright Red Eye

By Stu Horvath • November 12th, 2010

The Kinect is squandering its potential.

Dino De Laurentiis Dead at 91

By Stu Horvath • November 11th, 2010

Dino De Laurentiis died today at age 91. Hollywood is a lot poorer for his passing.

Sixteen Lonesome Octobers

By Stu Horvath • October 28th, 2010

I have read the book A Night in the Lonesome October, by Roger Zelazny, every October since I first spied it sitting on a low shelf of the Waldenbooks at the Ocean County Mall. Here’s why.

The Halloween That Should Have Been

By Stu Horvath • October 26th, 2010

Hey, remember that Halloween when your sister got kidnapped by monsters because they thought she was a giant candy corn? Then you really need to play Costume Quest so you can fill in the gaps in your memory.

Bring on the Spooky-Scary

By Stu Horvath • October 22nd, 2010

A look at some of the artwork from books that warped my childhood.

Scribblenauts Makes Me Happy

By Stu Horvath • October 20th, 2010

Who would win in a fight: God Almighty or Cthulhu?

Pulp Culture

By Stu Horvath • October 1st, 2010

The Stratemeyer Syndicate produced hundreds of books for dozens of series, but only recently did Unwinnable realize the strange and unique place those books hold in pulp culture.

Stranger in a Strange Land

By Stu Horvath • September 17th, 2010

You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door.

The End of an Era?

By Stu Horvath • September 9th, 2010

A growing number of downloadable indea games are more creative, compelling and visually exciting, by a large margin, than many of their big budget counterparts. Is this the end of the era of the videogame blockbuster?

Monster Mugs and Tentacles

By Stu Horvath • September 7th, 2010

Most times, Unwinnable is about videogames. Sometimes it is about movies or comic books or TV shows. Occasionally though, Unwinnable is about some random thing that I happen to think is cool.

I think Homebody Boutique is cool.

I Remember Halloween

By Stu Horvath • September 3rd, 2010

Fall is here. Time to break out the Danzig records. Unwinnable takes a look at his latest, Deth Red Sabaoth, and its puzzling limited edition container.

Spoiled Rotten

By Stu Horvath • August 20th, 2010

Why do we bother getting bent out of shape about spoilers? Does knowing parts of a plot truly diminish the experience a story can deliver?

BioShock Infinite

Coming Clean

By Stu Horvath • August 13th, 2010

I confess! I, Stu Horvath, never really liked BioShock.

Molyneux’s New Fable

By Stu Horvath • August 6th, 2010

Peter Molyneux continues on his quest for a truly interactive videogame experience filled with emotional touchstones in Fable III.

Pinball Pilgrimage

By Stu Horvath and Charles Francis Moran VI • August 5th, 2010

Team Unwinnable takes a field trip to the Silverball Museum Arcade in Asbury Park, New Jersey to get a massive pinball fix.

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