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A raccoon standing next to an oversized phone with a speech bubble that reads "Leaf TIckets" displaying how microtransactions work in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp

Pocket Camp: An Exercise in Capitalist Banality

By Khee Hoon Chan • December 7th, 2017

And if you’re a bourgeoisie Whale—what videogame companies call their biggest spenders who are willing to drop at least $100 per month on freemium games—well, you’ve exactly the corporate wet dream Nintendo wants to hook in.

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The Successful Sidescroller

By Aron Garst • December 6th, 2017

What makes a successful sidescroller? Aron Garst turns to the developers of Shovel Knight and Runbow to find out.

List-O-Mania – November 2017

By Team Unwinnable • December 5th, 2017

Books, music and games to help you pass the time as you get ready for the holidays!

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The logo for Big Pharma (the game) with the text below that reads "Research - Produce - Cure - Profit"

The Insidious Capitalism of Games

By David Shimomura • December 4th, 2017

In a game, enough is never enough. We’re rewarded for our ambitions, for working hard to achieving great things without any of the restraint placed on us in our every day lives. But how many games reward us for improving the world we enter as we vastly benefit from it?

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Industrial Waste is Good for You

By Agustin Lopez • December 1st, 2017

Don’t worry about all that trash our society produces – we’re going to need it to survive the post-apocalypse.

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A tabletop with a display of the bean counting game Bohnanza.

The Virtue of Bean Farming

By Sam Desatoff • November 30th, 2017

It felt like an enormous weight had been lifted off of me. It was the single greatest game of Bohnanza I have ever been a part of.

Revving the Engine

Rite of Ilk

By Stu Horvath • November 29th, 2017

Unwinnable chats with Alanay Cekic of Turtleneck Studios about their upcoming cooperative adventure game, Rite of Ilk.

A pair of hands holding cards from the game Gunsword, with a large shield like logo across the image that reads "Gunsword" in old timey font.

Gunsword, Casual Repartee, Chess and Dragonlance

By Levi Rubeck • November 28th, 2017

Gunsword whipped my head right over with delicious high fantasy visuals that brought to mind the Larry Elmore Dragonlance covers of my youth, and the only thing better than guns and swords is the fusion of the two.

a small figure stands below a large monument.

The Significance of Raji’s Indian Heroine

By Khee Hoon Chan • November 28th, 2017

To have a young Indian girl front Raji: An Ancient Epic is not only a bold statement, but also an affirmative one.

A large blonde man with a large gun and a sheepskin jacket looking sternly at the camera.

The Heart of Wolfenstein 2 is a Voice

By David Shimomura • November 27th, 2017

But for the minor shortcomings of The New Colossus it should be said that B.J. Blazkowicz’s internal monologue and Brian Bloom’s voice acting is among the best of 2017.

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