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The Best Games of 2021

By Team Unwinnable • December 31st, 2021

2021 was a year full of great games – some brand new, and some seeing a triumphant return after literal (as in, not hyperbolic) government censorship.

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The Best TV Shows of 2021

By Team Unwinnable • December 30th, 2021

So 2021 ended with our having to once again (maybe?) stay anchored to our homes by our couches. We could be doing a lot worse than this year’s TV offerings.

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The Best Movies of 2021

By Team Unwinnable • December 29th, 2021

2020 was a year of establishing a new normal in terms of media consumption, specifically with film, and this year continued the trend.

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The Best Music of 2021

By Team Unwinnable • December 28th, 2021

Compared to 2020, 2021 was a not-nearly-as-terrible-but-still pretty-awful year. For musicians and their fans at least, it was a marked improvement.

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The Best Books of 2021

By Team Unwinnable • December 27th, 2021

Pick up one of these books and disappear into a different world, maybe one not populated by new COVID variants.

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Week Five: Halloween Horrors

By Team Unwinnable • October 29th, 2021

For the final week of Unwinnable’s Halloween Video Store, the gang offers up their favorite flicks that take place on the actual day.

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Week Four: Classic Creeps

By Team Unwinnable • October 22nd, 2021

It’s Week Four of Unwinnable’s Halloween Video Store! This week we go back to our horror roots with the gang’s favorite classics.

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Week Three: Haunted Houses

By Team Unwinnable • October 15th, 2021

It’s Week three of Unwinnable’s Halloween Video Store! This week, Orrin Grey has the gang pull Haunted House movies out of the rafters!

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Week Two: Mythos Monsters

By Team Unwinnable • October 8th, 2021

Week two of Unwinnable’s Halloween Video Store is upon us! This week, Orrin Grey has the gang pull Cthulhu Mythos movies down from the shelf!

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Week One: Sinister Slashers

By Team Unwinnable • October 1st, 2021

Join us as your host, noted skeleton Orrin Grey, guides you through five weeks of horror film recommendations from Team Unwinnable.

The Best Games of 2020

By Team Unwinnable • December 31st, 2020

This year has put on one hell of a spectacular shit show. But at the same time, games have proven to be the one salve we need to tide us over through 2020.

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The Best TV Shows of 2020

By Team Unwinnable • December 30th, 2020

Has there ever been a better year to binge?

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The Best Movies of 2020

By Team Unwinnable • December 30th, 2020

At this point, it’s almost parody, the movies’ editor writing a screed about how terrible the movies list is; “This list is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here…nothing valued is here.”

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The Best Music of 2020

By Team Unwinnable • December 29th, 2020

Despite the shit show of 2020, musicians soldiered on, doing what they do and providing us all with the briefest of respites from staring at our phones, our walls or each other.

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The Best Books of 2020

By Team Unwinnable • December 28th, 2020

Books will continue to inspire, instruct, entertain, baffle and illuminate our lives and the interestingly cursed times that we find ourselves embroiled in.

A Note

By Team Unwinnable • June 3rd, 2020

Black lives matter.

The Best Games of 2019

By Team Unwinnable • December 31st, 2019

“…an explosive geyser of truly brilliant games…”

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The Best Tabletop Games of 2019

By Team Unwinnable • December 31st, 2019

(that we played this year)

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The Best TV of 2019

By Team Unwinnable • December 30th, 2019

The ten best TV shows of 2019, as chosen by Team Unwinnable and our slightly shady voting system.

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The Best Movies of 2019

By Team Unwinnable • December 30th, 2019

It’s 2019 baybe and we’ve got movies for you to see!

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The Best Albums of 2019

By Team Unwinnable • December 27th, 2019

Crank up the best albums of 2019 and drown out the cacophony of nonsense that surrounds us.

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The Best Books of 2019

By Team Unwinnable • December 26th, 2019

An idiosyncratic but earnest selection of the reads we considered most worth our time.

2019 Spooptacular Horror Movie Recommendations, Part Two

By Team Unwinnable • October 11th, 2019

We have more horror movie recommendations for you! This time, rich people are on the menu.

2019 Spooptacular Horror Movie Recommendations, Part One

By Team Unwinnable • October 4th, 2019

Unwinnable loves horror movies, so we’re picking some faves for you to check out this October.

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Unwinnable Listens to the Best Music of 2018

By Team Unwinnable • January 31st, 2019

Unwinnable reflects on this year’s Can You Hang Challenge.

The Best Games of 2018

By Team Unwinnable • December 31st, 2018

Too…many…games…

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The Best Music of 2018

By Team Unwinnable • December 28th, 2018

Our soundtrack for 2018 was as weird and wide-ranging as ever.

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The Best Movies of 2018

By Team Unwinnable • December 28th, 2018

This has been a weird year for movies. 

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The Best TV of 2018

By Team Unwinnable • December 27th, 2018

True to the Unwinnable brand, the shows on the Best TV of 2018 list are lovely, dark and deep.

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Best Tabletop Games We Played in 2018

By Team Unwinnable • December 26th, 2018

These are the tabletop games that spoke to us in 2018.

Unwinnable Week 2 Horror Movies!

By Team Unwinnable • October 12th, 2018

Unwinnable’s weekly horror movie recommendations for October continues in silly, grisly and unusual fashion.

What Horror Movie Should You Watch Tonight?

By Team Unwinnable • October 4th, 2018

It’s October and we know that means you want to be watching horror movies! We’ve got suggestions!

Game Workers Unite Condemns ArenaNet for Inciting Further Harassment of Their Employees

By Team Unwinnable • July 12th, 2018

Why have ArenaNet and Mike O’Brien not condemned the harassment of Jessica Price, Peter Fries and countless others in the games community?

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Unwinnable Listens to the Best Music of 2017 – Finale

By Team Unwinnable • January 30th, 2018

The Can You Hang? Challenge is over. This year’s lesson? Even good music can be a punishment.

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Unwinnable Listens to the Best Music of 2017 – Part Three

By Team Unwinnable • January 23rd, 2018

The Can You Hang? Challenge proves to be almost too pleasant an experience and two members of Team Unwinnable reveal that they couldn’t hang.

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Unwinnable Listens to the Best Music of 2017 – Part Two

By Team Unwinnable • January 15th, 2018

The gang continues to find great new songs during the Can You Hang? Challenge. Has Unwinnable’s collective taste in music gotten better?

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Unwinnable Listens to the Best Music of 2017 – Part One

By Team Unwinnable • January 8th, 2018

Team Unwinnable enters this year’s Best Music gauntlet and finds it…kind of nice? Caution reigns, though: the other, dog poop covered shoe of other people’s taste in music is bound to drop soon.

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Best Board Games We Played in 2017

By Jeremy Signor and Team Unwinnable • January 4th, 2018

These are the board games that impressed the Unwinnable writers the most in 2017.

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The Best Comics of 2017

By Team Unwinnable • January 3rd, 2018

There were so many great comics this year, it was hard to pick just ten.

The Best Games of 2017

By Team Unwinnable • December 29th, 2017

Another year, another batch of fantastic, imaginative games that move the medium forward.

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