Feature Excerpt How We Learned to Stop Arguing and Enjoy the Vibes By Aldo Garcia • December 22nd, 2023 Style (like modern discourse itself) is everything to Killer7.
Feature Excerpt A Destructive Love Affair with Minimaps By Jon Place • December 21st, 2023 As games got bigger, and their worlds got bigger still, the need for a constant map sitting on the screen at all times became more important as a tool for navigation.
This Town Needs Me: It’s a Wonderful Knife (2023) By Orrin Grey • December 20th, 2023 This is a film where the plot and performances are more stylized than the shooting and, as a result, is a disjointed, tonal mess.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – December 2023 By David Shimomura • December 19th, 2023 A very merry Killer7 cover to you all!
Thieves’ World (Remastered) By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 18th, 2023 Back alleys and dark deeds await in Thieves’ World!
First Quest: The Music By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 11th, 2023 There is always some new relic to haul up from the pits of the earth.
A Scene That Defies Belief: Godzilla Minus One (2023) By Orrin Grey • December 5th, 2023 As with Shin Godzilla, this is an attempt to return to Godzilla’s roots as a purely destructive force. There is no way in which this Godzilla is a “good guy,” even as roundaboutly as the one from the MonsterVerse films.
The Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 4th, 2023 Imagine riding a horse. Now imagine the horse is the size of the whole world.
Exploits Feature Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special By Sara Clemens • December 1st, 2023 It took me 19 years to listen to the commentary tracks for Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special, a show I’ve watched at least once a year for the past 35.
Funeral Rites ARC Turns Disaster Into a Fighting Chance By Emily Price • November 28th, 2023 While ARC is a TTRPG about the end of the world, it uses humor and warmth as often as horror to imagine what responding to the apocalypse actually looks like.
Good Books 2023, Part 2 By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 27th, 2023 Stu recommended books, but now it’s Hambone’s turn!
Feature Excerpt The Stories of Virtual Fragments By Clint Morrison Jr. • November 22nd, 2023 Modern games are littered with fragmented narratives, digital ephemera often left obscured or abstracted in their incompleteness.
Feature Story We Need to Talk About the Warrens By Orrin Grey • November 21st, 2023 There is plenty of evidence that the Warrens were hucksters who exploited vulnerable people for their own profit.
Russ Nicholson Interview (Remastered) By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 20th, 2023 Straight from the archives!
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – November 2023 By David Shimomura • November 17th, 2023 We’re not putting up the Christmas decorations yet.
Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 6th, 2023 We’re hitting the road!
Exploits Feature Magnum, P.I. vs. Miami Vice By Stu Horvath • November 1st, 2023 We all know Jessica Fletcher is the greatest TV detective of the ’80s, but who is the runner up?
Funeral Rites Campfire Carnage Conjures the Real Monsters By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 25th, 2023 Campfire Carnage writer Valkyrie T. Loughcrewe sees potential for “campsite as being for horror games what a dungeon is to fantasy,” an iterative space through which you can tell all sorts of stories.
Feature Excerpt Killing the Vampire By Elijah Gonzalez • October 24th, 2023 Xenoblade Chronicles 3 exorcizes an age-old symbol of stagnation and exploitation to foreground a story about systemic change.
The Ancestral Trail By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 23rd, 2023 Can you imagine waiting a fortnight for anything in this day and age? I can’t!
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – October 2023 By David Shimomura • October 20th, 2023 Vamps, the ones you’d expect and some others.
Little Demons: Ghoulies II (1987) from MVD Rewind By Orrin Grey • October 4th, 2023 The yuppie gets his comeuppance by having his balls eaten by a monster.
Exploits Feature Pop Culture Bubblegum Slurry By Michael Lee • October 2nd, 2023 “Just subscribe to Content Inc.’s new streaming service CRAM: Where we cram pop culture slurry down your throat until you die!”
Funeral Rites Challenge Cult Horror with Maximum Mystic Punks Vol 2: Crypt By Alyssa Wejebe • September 25th, 2023 “I’ve always been fascinated with medieval crypts, ossuaries and mausoleums,” Mystic Punks series creator Anthony Meloro says. “So, placing a dungeon crawl in one is an obvious choice.”
Feature Excerpt May Chaos Take the World By Gerry Hart • September 22nd, 2023 The cosmology of Elden Ring’s world is complex and daunting even for veteran players, but there is little in the way of ambiguity with the Frenzied Flame.
Feature Excerpt AI is Advancing Rapidly – The Outer Worlds Tells Us Why That’s Bad By Mira Lazine • September 21st, 2023 The Outer Worlds gives us insight into what it’s like to live in a society run exclusively by corporations, but it also gives us insight into what it’s like to live in a world dominated by AI.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – September 2023 By David Shimomura • September 18th, 2023 Remember remember, the 21st night of September.
Video Game of the Year By Noah Springer • September 15th, 2023 “…an inviting look into the history of the genre since Pong popped into people’s homes all the way back in 1977.”
Barkeep on the Borderlands By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 11th, 2023 Pull up a stool and name your poison!
Bloodsport Gambler By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 4th, 2023 Surely there are easier ways to get out of debt?
Exploits Feature Freaks By Dr. Dobermind • September 1st, 2023 “You laughed at them, shuddered at them. And, yet, but for the accident of birth, you might be one as they are.”
The Arkham Investigator’s Wallet By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 28th, 2023 The coolest wallet you’ve ever seen.
Funeral Rites Inventing a World of Insectoid Wonders By Justin Reeve • August 25th, 2023 We delve into the mind of creator Eduardo Carabaño, exploring the history, philosophy, inspirations and design processes that carried Settlers of a Dead God from inception to publication.