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.
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…
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?
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.
Zergs and Bicycles: An Initial Impression By Stu Horvath • July 28th, 2010 A lot of people seem to be very excited about StarCraft II. I’m not sure I understand why.
Do Not Cross By Stu Horvath • July 26th, 2010 I would love an engrossing mystery to dive into every week but I’m not yet entirely convinced that Rubicon is it. What say you?
Comic Commotion By Stu Horvath • July 26th, 2010 While the world is recovering from San Diego Comic Con, with its toys and videogames and movies and television shows, Unwinnable takes a moment to actually talk about comic books.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. By Stu Horvath • July 16th, 2010 Unwinnable takes a look at the five best unwinnable situations, be they weird, infuriating or just plain amusing.
Antique Critique: Venture By Stu Horvath • July 7th, 2010 When Stu Horvath is on a vintage game kick, he finds himself returning again and again to an old favorite: Exidy’s classic Venture for ColecoVision.
Lovely Beasts By Stu Horvath • July 1st, 2010 Every once in a while, a comic book comes along that takes my preconceived aesthetic notions and totally twists them inside out. Beasts of Burden by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson is one of those books.
E3 2010: Five Most Memorable Gaming Moments By Stu Horvath • June 24th, 2010 On the eve of E3 2011, Stu Horvath digs up an old piece on his favorite gaming moments of E3 2010 – did any of them hold up?
E3 2010: How’s my Crystal Ball? By Stu Horvath • June 22nd, 2010 Everyone loves a good prediction, but how often do we take the prognosticators into account the morning after. Find out what I got right and what I got wrong about E3 2010.