Pretension Break By Stu Horvath • September 7th, 2011 Straight from the High Desert: Unwinnable highly recommends Gus Mastrapa’s weekly column, Pretension +1, over at Joystick Division.
A Night Elf Priestess’ View of the Future By Stu Horvath • September 6th, 2011 Stu Horvath talks to Bonnie Nardi, a cultural anthropologist, about the impact of MMOs like World of Warcraft on social dynamics and the distribution of technology.
Driver: Suffering Remembered By Stu Horvath • September 6th, 2011 Ubisoft released a trailer for Driver: San Francisco that calls back to the original’s punishing garage tutorial level. Stu Horvath waxed nostalgic…and terrified.
Dictator Break By Stu Horvath • September 5th, 2011 Judging by the trailer, Kalypso Media’s Tropico 4 promises the same joys of dictatorship as the previous games in the series. Viva El Presidente!
John Carmack: Rocket Man By Stu Horvath • September 2nd, 2011 Legendary game designer John Carmack, the man behind Doom, Quake and Rage, has an unusual hobby: building rockets for NASA with his company Armadillo Aerospace.
Justice Break By Stu Horvath • August 31st, 2011 Comics Alliance picks the best and worst Justice League lineups since the group’s inception in the ’60s. Unwinnable agrees and disagrees.
Post-Traumatic By Stu Horvath • August 30th, 2011 The day surreal point and click adventure Trauma came out, I was excited to dive into what was bound to be a deep psychological experience. If Trauma was a pool, I would have a broken neck.
Unwinnable Reports: Hurricane Irene Attacks New York By Stu Horvath • August 27th, 2011 The hurricane is coming! The hurricane is coming! Tune in to Unwinnable for your latest hysterical updates!
More Human Than Denton By Stu Horvath • August 26th, 2011 We’re fans of the cutscenes in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Check out this trailer for a taste.
UNATCO Break By Stu Horvath • August 26th, 2011 The original Deus Ex was conceived as the story of the biggest conspiracy theory ever, so it stands to reason that the plot lines of the three games might be a treacherous tangle for new players. Thank God for wikis, right?
I Dream of Electric Sheep – Deus Ex: Human Revolution Reviewed By Stu Horvath • August 26th, 2011 Stu Horvath looks at the near-future stealth-based shooter Deus Ex: Human Revolution from Eidos Montreal and ponders the ethics of cybernetics.
God, the Devil and Designer Jeans By Stu Horvath • August 23rd, 2011 We can’t really say we’ve been waiting for a videogame based on the Old Testament, but now that we have it, we are so happy the hero isn’t Moses. That guy is such a drag.
Ninja Break By Stu Horvath • August 22nd, 2011 We dig Danny Choo’s ninja training photo gallery on Culture Japan. We didn’t see a single fruit, though.
A Rage like No Other By Stu Horvath • August 12th, 2011 Unwinnable talks to legendary developer John Carmack about his forthcoming shooter Rage and living life at 60 frames per second.
Trauma Break By Stu Horvath • August 10th, 2011 Trauma, an independently-developed adventure game by Krystian Majewski, reinvents the point and click adventure with heady themes, endless atmosphere and novel controls. Go buy it now!
We Have No Operators Standing By By Stu Horvath • August 4th, 2011 Unwinnable controls the horizontal. Unwinnable controls the vertical. Sit back, relax and get in touch!
Superhero Movie Smack Down Results By Stu Horvath • August 3rd, 2011 The results are in! Team Unwinnable fought over their favorite superhero movies, and you picked the winner. Also: Team Unwinnable learned that you are really weird people.
Fantasy Break By Stu Horvath • July 28th, 2011 Stu Horvath discovers a catalog of fantasy board games from the Eighties on Retro Junk and is immediately filled with envy and the compulsion to collect.
Return of the Return of the Jedi Glasses By Stu Horvath • July 27th, 2011 Stu Horvath restored a lost piece of his childhood by purchasing Return of the Jedi glasses on eBay. They arrived today. This is news, but only in the loosest sense of the word.
Bat-Break By Stu Horvath • July 27th, 2011 In case you hadn’t realized, Unwinnable likes Batman. But our love for the Caped Crusader is nothing compared to that of The Bat-Blog.
Augmented Coffee Break By Stu Horvath • July 26th, 2011 The latest trailer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a live action musing on the moral and ethical implications of human cybernetic augmentation.
Coffee Break, Born on a Monday By Stu Horvath • July 25th, 2011 Making his lair in Iceberg Lounge, the Penguin of Batman: Arkham City has plenty of henchmen and one big surprise waiting for the Caped Crusader…
Monster Break By Stu Horvath • July 20th, 2011 The Haunted Closet is constantly unearthing lost treasures of my childhood. This time: The Creature Catalog, by Michael Berenstain.
A Gunslinger Stillborn: Dark Tower Multimedia Extravaganza Shut Down By Stu Horvath • July 19th, 2011 After delays, Universal Studios has pulled the plug on the three-movie, two-TV series adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, helmed by Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman. Maybe it’s for the best.
Brass Tracks – The Music of Zelda Adapted By Stu Horvath • July 14th, 2011 Musician Devin Fanslow arranged a selection of Koji Kando’s compositions for the Legend of Zelda series into a medley for performance by a brass quintet. Unwinnable investigates, and scores an mp3.
Coffee Power Up! By Stu Horvath • July 14th, 2011 Eric Power’s videogame-inspired paper animation show Mario’s true colors.
Things that Devour and Dissolve By Stu Horvath • July 13th, 2011 Artist Mike Bukowski is drawing every monster ever mentioned by H.P. Lovecraft. So far, he’s doing an amazing job. Unwinnable approved!
Hey Guys! Look at that Poster! By Stu Horvath • July 12th, 2011 Warner Brothers has released the teaser poster for the third Christopher Nolan-helmed Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises. Unwinnable refuses to be excited.
Creature Break By Stu Horvath • July 12th, 2011 Team Unwinnable recently met the folks behind the making of Creature and we are pretty excited about their old school monster movie. Check out the trailer!
Protocol Z: Fear and the Network By Stu Horvath • July 11th, 2011 Stu Horvath interviews Steve Jankowski about his Protocol Z theory, which attempts to reconcile zombies, identity death and living in a networked world.
Soundtrack Break By Stu Horvath • July 11th, 2011 Unwinnable discovered an entry point for a rare and elusive type of enthusiast: the soundtrack geek. If you want more, you’ll have to explore on your own.
Inside the McKittrick Hotel By Stu Horvath • July 8th, 2011 Scout of Scouting New York got a tour of Sleep No More’s fictional McKittrick Hotel and came out with plenty of photos, a history lesson and a couple of scares…
Macbeth Does Murder Sleep! By Stu Horvath • July 8th, 2011 Stu Horvath has never experienced anything quite like Punch Drunk’s Sleep No More, a unique and unsettling interactive adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth set in an abandoned Manhattan hotel.
Post Mortem: inFamous 2 By Stu Horvath • July 7th, 2011 Stu Horvath looks at Sucker Punch’s PlayStation 3 exclusive Infamous 2 – and is a little disappointed it is only a good game instead of an amazing one.
Cthulhu Crayon Break By Stu Horvath • July 6th, 2011 David Milano read stories by H.P. Lovecraft to kids and had them draw the monsters. The results are amazing.
More than Meets the Coffee Break By Stu Horvath • July 4th, 2011 The Transformers Wiki has more than you need ever need to know about your favorite shape-shifting alien robots. If you are the type of person who likes that sort of thing.
C64 – Back in Business By Stu Horvath • June 29th, 2011 Commodore is once again manufacturing all-in-one keyboard computers – modern hardware in classic cases. Step right up and get your functional nostalgia!
Freedom, and What to Do With It By Stu Horvath • June 27th, 2011 The Supreme Court sided with the videogame industry in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association. Unwinnable calls on the industry not to squander their newly confirmed freedom.
Musical Coffee Break that Will Swallow All Your Free Time By Stu Horvath • June 27th, 2011 Turntable is part chat room, part DJ party and all fun. Team Unwinnable is going to lose a lot of hours there.
Peter Falk, Dead at 83 By Stu Horvath • June 24th, 2011 The man behind TV detective Lt. Columbo, Peter Falk, has died.