Funeral Rites Collaborating on Microcosmic Adventures in Mausritter By Phoenix Simms • January 25th, 2024 Mausritter has come a long way from its homebrew session and zine days.
Feature Excerpt Why I Played a 20-Year-Old Nancy Drew Game Over the Holidays By Amanda Tien • January 24th, 2024 Twice a year for more than a decade, I’d gather around a computer with my mom and sister so we could play the newest Nancy Drew game. This was our ritual, until the games stopped coming.
Feature Excerpt Solace and Play Within Games By Alyssa Hatmaker • January 23rd, 2024 Sometimes being reminded that you’re playing a videogame is a welcome feeling.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – January 2024 By David Shimomura • January 18th, 2024 Welcome to the new year!
Here's the Thing Surviving Fallout 4 By Rob Rich • January 11th, 2024 Fallout 4 has a bit of a reputation for being exceptionally mediocre at best, but a new outlook and approach to the 2015 title has turned it into Rob’s latest obsession.
Forms in Light Best Architecture in Games By Justin Reeve • January 10th, 2024 A short, concise and mostly unordered list of the best level design and environmental art of the year.
Noah's Beat Box Hip Hop at Fifty By Noah Springer • January 9th, 2024 After stepping back from the contemporary, Noah reflects a bit more on the different eras of hip hop and what they mean to him.
Area of Effect Space at Sea By Jay Castello • January 5th, 2024 The oceans are a space of freedom, terror, traversal, piracy, exploration, exploitation, warfare, monsters, beauty, death and a thousand other things depending on their social context.
Rookie of the Year Lana Del(’s) Rey By Matt Marrone • January 4th, 2024 The spirit of the Newport Folk Festival is all about the music, from the morning sets to the closers, not all about Lana.
Here Be Monsters It’s an Evil Effing Room: Level Design in Horror By Emma Kostopolus • January 3rd, 2024 In thinking about horror level design, we can work to uncover a lot of the general horror philosophy behind some of our most beloved franchises.
