Unwinnable

             

Unwinnable MonthlyExploitsGames MoviesTVMusic|Store|Subscribe

Unwinnable Monthly

Noise Complaint
Detail from the cover art for Amped shows the silhouette of a snowboarder raising his board above his head in triumph, dark against a bright blue sky.

How The Get Up Kids and an Xbox Demo Disc Changed My Life

By Ben Sailer • December 3rd, 2024

One afternoon when I had nothing else to do, I popped in a sampler of the snowboarding game Amped, and discovered a couple tracks from The Get Up Kids.

Funeral Rites

Daily Commute: An Examination of Arkos and The Forest Primordia

By Emma Kostopolus • November 27th, 2024

John Kordosh wants his players to focus on the events unfolding around them, rather than counting metrics for meta-game functionality.

Feature Excerpt

Believe Me, I Haven’t Got a Choice: Max Rockatansky’s Bisexual Apocalypse

By Maddi Chilton • November 26th, 2024

We return to Max Rockatansky, who wanders in and out of traditional pasts and transgressive futures, part of both but choosing neither.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – November 2024

By David Shimomura • November 21st, 2024

The nights sure are getting longer, huh! Have a magazine!

Here's the Thing
A screenshot from Saturnalia shows a woman in an 80's sweater standing inside a church, the whole scene lit by an otherworldly purple light.

The New Maniac Mansion

By Rob Rich • November 20th, 2024

Lucasfilm Games’ classic adventure hasn’t gotten a remake or a remaster, but there’s one game in particular that sure feels like it’s carrying that torch (and running with it).

Forms in Light
Key art from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 shows the parking lot of a diner destroyed and on fire as fighter jets fly by overhead.

Suburbia Under Siege

By Justin Reeve • November 20th, 2024

The idea of the homefront being invaded no longer feels like a distant fantasy these days.

Noah's Beat Box
A picturesque red-brick house on a suburban street, lawn neatly kept.

A Nightmare on Valleyfield Drive

By Noah Springer • November 19th, 2024

We bought our “dream” home. A three-bed, one-bath mid-century ramble in the St. Louis suburb, Glennmeadow. But then everything changed.

Casting Deep Meteo
A photograph of some autumnal woods shrouded in a grey mist.

Here are the Woods

By Levi Rubeck • November 15th, 2024

It’s the liminal woods between cities and suburbs, suburbs and exurbs, farmhouses and fields that yield the highest chance of finding porn.

Totally Generic
A bank of fog rolls ashore just of the coast of Maine.

Losing Christina

By Natasha Ochshorn • November 14th, 2024

The Fog is a novel about gaslighting, although that term is never used.

Area of Effect
Students mill about in droves and crisp blue blazers in a grand hall at Durham University.

The Local Horror of Dark Academia

By Jay Castello • November 13th, 2024

Babel is one of the books most keen to explore the dark part of dark academia; the power behind it, not just the hue of an 18th century wood-panel library.

  • « Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • …
  • 180
  • Next »
Video Games - Comics - Sci-Fi - Pulp

© Unwinnable, LLC.

All content is owned by Unwinnable and the fine folks who contribute to it, so just back up off it Mr. Sticky Fingers. Support criticism with your clicks, quality publications with your bucks and always tip your bartender.

  • About
  • Staff
  • Advertise
  • Submissions
  • Privacy