Happiness and Pain: Going Cold into Shin Kamen Rider (2023) By Orrin Grey • June 2nd, 2023 There’s more visual punch in any 15 minutes of Shin Kamen Rider than a dozen other blockbusters.
Cycle of the Werewolf By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 29th, 2023 It must be a full moon tonight.
Funeral Rites Composing the World of Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City By Phoenix Simms • May 24th, 2023 Luka Rejec’s world is suffused with mind-expanding, psychedelic heavy metal and is also inspired by “the Dying Earth genre, and Oregon Trail games.”
Feature Story Whatever Knows Fear By Orrin Grey • May 23rd, 2023 The uncanny history of Marvel’s muck monster.
Feature Excerpt Painting the Past With a Broad Brush By Saniya Ahmed • May 19th, 2023 Intimacy and ordinary life in art is lacking when attention goes toward religious and imperial powers. Mundane, everyday things are forgettable and not as well-preserved through time as a monument.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – May 2023 By David Shimomura • May 16th, 2023 Welcome to myths and legends.
Expedition to the Barrier Peaks By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 15th, 2023 The best of the first wave of TSR-produced D&D modules? Certainly the quirkiest!
Empire of the East By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 1st, 2023 So wait, demons are nukes? Apparently! At least as far as Fred Saberhagen is concerned.
Exploits Feature Mechanical Sympathy By Van Dennis • May 1st, 2023 “…you learn to care for a machine to the point where you see it as more than just metal.”
Funeral Rites After Ragnarok: Featuring Colin Le Sueur By Oluwatayo Adewole • April 24th, 2023 It’s a bold move for Le Sueur to make a Norse-inspired Souls-like tabletop roleplaying game, and yet he manages to avoid some extremely fraught territory.
Amazing Tales By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 24th, 2023 It’s never too early to start playing RPGs!
Feature Excerpt The Future Will Forget Us By Ben Thorp • April 21st, 2023 Season and Pentiment on how art fails to capture our complicated present.
Feature Excerpt What Video Games Did to Haunting By Nathan Schmidt • April 20th, 2023 Where are all the haunted videogames?
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – April 2023 By David Shimomura • April 18th, 2023 New look, same writers!
Portents of the Degloved Hand By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 17th, 2023 Warning: uneasy squirming imminent.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 10th, 2023 Did you hear there is a Dungeons & Dragons movie?
Exploits Feature Formula 1: Drive to Survive By Amanda Hudgins • April 3rd, 2023 I don’t care about Formula 1. One of my favorite shows is the Netflix F1 series Drive to Survive.
The Highest Level of All By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 3rd, 2023 Just how many hit points does God have, anyway?
Feature Excerpt The Environmental Horror of Elden Ring By Kathryn Hemmann • March 22nd, 2023 Caelid resists the post-apocalyptic fantasy that the detrimental effects of human activity on the environment are temporary and reversible.
Feature Excerpt Hope and Sacrifice in Andor By Kiernan Elam • March 21st, 2023 Andor paints a clear and lucid picture of the absolute power authoritarians can wield over people and how cruel fascism must be in order to preserve that power.
A Time to Harvest By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 20th, 2023 Maybe don’t go collecting rocks and folklore in the hills of Vermont?
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – March 2023 By David Shimomura • March 16th, 2023 Another brick thrown against the wall.
Bombs Bursting in Air: The Other Black Sunday (1977) By Orrin Grey • March 15th, 2023 The movie’s producer, Robert Evans, quotes Henry Kissinger in telling him, “You can’t make it a political picture. You can’t take sides. You can’t make it anti or pro anyone.” How much they succeeded or failed at that is up for debate.
The Maze of Peril By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 13th, 2023 Down we go into the depths again!
Feature Excerpt Lifelong Friends are Made in Dead and Dying Games By Brian Lee-Mounger Hendershot • February 22nd, 2023 Videogames lost something special when developers pivoted from server browsers to matchmaking. A small group of players show us what we’re missing.
Feature Excerpt A Ride Through the Objective Field of Passion By Braden Timss • February 21st, 2023 Disneyland is a place where one can fall backward from the future to the frontier days of the American westward expansion without the slightest struggle, physical or cognitive.
Zine Month Roundtable By John McGuire • February 20th, 2023 Featuring special guests Tony Vasinda, Adam Vass and Levi Combs!
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – February 2023 By David Shimomura • February 17th, 2023 Statistically, no one can spell February correctly on the first try.
Dungeons & Dragons Toys in 2023 By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • February 13th, 2023 Everything old is new again. Again.
Exploits Feature The Beauty of Backlog By Connor Queen • February 3rd, 2023 Speak to most gamers, and they’ll probably tell you the same thing: Backlogs are annoying.
Exploits Feature Biking the Beat By Autumn Wright • February 1st, 2023 “After biking some 2,000 miles in the city last year, my memories of my new home are tied to rides and their soundtracks.”
