Uninvited and Unseen: Two Chilly Classics of the 1940s on Blu-ray Together By Orrin Grey • July 26th, 2024 The success of The Uninvited hangs in the air around Lewis Allen’s 1945 follow-up, The Unseen.
Funeral Rites Smelting RPGs Down to Simple Bliss with Outcast Silver Raiders By Justin Reeve • July 26th, 2024 “Perhaps out of a sense of satire or perhaps just because I really like horror movies, metal and the occult, I wanted to create something that would have been absolutely forbidden in my house.”
Feature Excerpt The World Outside the Glass was Almost Gorgeous By Will Borger • July 25th, 2024 The first step to solving a problem is admitting a problem exists, and the role you played in causing it. None of us are innocent.
Feature Excerpt The Games Space By Jay Castello • July 24th, 2024 Geoff is excited for videogames at Opening Night Live in August. Geoff is excited for videogames at the Game Awards in December. Geoff is excited for videogames at Summer Game Fest in June. Soon it will be August again.
The Sorcerers’ Enclave By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 22nd, 2024 You know the Necromancer is always going to be trouble.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – July 2024 By David Shimomura • July 19th, 2024 It’s Skinner’s game industry.
Outcast Silver Raiders By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 15th, 2024 Beware the OSR! Outcast Silver Raiders, that is.
Grimrock Isle By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 8th, 2024 Welcome to Dove’s Bay, the most horrible island in Maine (take that, Stephen King)!
Exploits Feature Three New Novels That Change How You Think about Reality By Kathleen Levitt • July 1st, 2024 The older I get, the more I gravitate towards fiction that messes with the real.
Funeral Rites The Capricious Gifts Found in Portents of a Dying God By Noah Springer • June 27th, 2024 Soul-crushing realities are something that MÖRK BORG tends to revel in, so it’s nice to see that Matt Johnson’s newest deck offers the same type of disastrous opportunities.
626 Day This is Your Badness Level: Lilo & Stitch and Mental Health By Orrin Grey • June 26th, 2024 As a weird kid myself, who grew up into a weird adult, it’s easy to see aspects of myself in both Lilo and Stitch – and I’m not alone.
Feature Story Minus One Is King By David Shimomura • June 26th, 2024 Everyone has trauma. Godzilla is definitely still cool but he’s deeply threatening and he probably hates you.
Feature Story Making a Mess in Kaiju No. 8 By Van Dennis • June 25th, 2024 Kaiju No. 8 is a wonderfully refreshing series: a show about someone in their early 30s who finds out that their dream is still achievable, even if it’s by unconventional means.
The Filming of Conan the Barbarian By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 24th, 2024 What is best in life? More Conan talk!
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – June 2024 – Kawaiiju By David Shimomura • June 20th, 2024 Cute and killer.
Holomatixx: A New Wave Order By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 10th, 2024 Coming at you straight from the Pink Aisle!
Exploits Feature Lists Issue Introduction By Stu Horvath • June 3rd, 2024 A celebration of the importance of lists. A celebration of the ubiquity of lists. A celebration of the absurdity of lists.
The Gamer’s Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Remastered) By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 3rd, 2024 Make ours Marvel! Again!
Funeral Rites Sailing the Ashen Sea with Tephrotic Nightmares By Maddi Chilton • May 23rd, 2024 The strongest character in the setting – the most vivid, the most realized, and the most overwhelming – is the Ashen Sea itself.
Feature Excerpt An Attempt Against Muscular Demonstrations of Power: Child of Light at Ten By Luis Aguasvivas • May 22nd, 2024 A decade after its release, the whimsy of Ubisoft Montreal’s Child of Light still twinkles.
Shadowgate By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 20th, 2024 It’s a sad thing that your adventures have ended here!!
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – May 2024 By David Shimomura • May 17th, 2024 In an industry driven by growth, making something small is a revolutionary act.
The Black Rainbow Society By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 13th, 2024 Best beware when you’re walking on the nightside!
Bryan Ansell, 1955-2023 By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 6th, 2024 A giant of tabletop remembered.
Exploits Feature The Impossibility of Mods Makes Them So Valuable By Elijah Beahm • May 1st, 2024 Why would anyone do this, with minimal support, working uphill against someone else’s code, for free?
Gameplayers By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 29th, 2024 Where does the game end and real life begin?
Funeral Rites The Tower, The Fool, The Meatgrinder By Noah Springer • April 23rd, 2024 “His Majesty the Worm is very focused on megadungeon-crawling, and I wanted players to have this sense that surviving the dangers means something.”
Star Trek: The Role Playing Game By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 22nd, 2024 Set phasers to stun!
Feature Excerpt Apocalyptic Pregnancy By Natasha Ochshorn • April 19th, 2024 Perhaps an emotional response to a presidential election year, the weather, uncontrolled rent, or genocide – people on a large scale are questioning parenting as an ethical choice.
Feature Excerpt It’s Not a Loop, It’s a Spiral By Autumn Wright • April 18th, 2024 Maybe Alan Wake is like me. Maybe I’m like Alan. Trying to write my way out. Maybe the writing is just incidental to this compulsion, something we’re drawn to.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – April 2024 By David Shimomura • April 16th, 2024 Blake’s back. Autumn is here for Spring.
Dragon’s Lair By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 8th, 2024 There may be a million ways to die, but you’re probably only going to see the first two or three.
Don’t Hurt Girls When You Dance (Or Any Other Time) By Juno Stump • April 5th, 2024 We may never know for sure, but I think there’s a reason that so many trans women have been able to identify with Kurt Cobain’s joy, pain and suffering, so strongly.
Exploits Feature Liminality: Fear of Transition By Kasio Dalton • April 1st, 2024 “It’s a terrifying suggestion that someone might call a transitory space home.”
Arkham By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 1st, 2024 If the Colour is out of Space it should maybe consider weeding some of its shelves, amirite?
Funeral Rites Between the Skies and Beyond the Horizon By Justin Reeve • March 28th, 2024 Designer Huffa Frobes-Cross refers to Between the Skies as “rules minimalist, fiction maximalist.”
Feature Excerpt Ueda, Buddha & Me By Perry Gottschalk • March 27th, 2024 Don’t come to these games as experts of others, come to these games as someone who has never played one.