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Whatever Happened to the Startup Sound? – An Excerpt from Unwinnable Monthly 93

By Jordan Oloman • July 31st, 2017

What do Frank Ocean, Lil B, Sonic 06 and Max Coburn have in common? They’ve been seduced by the allure of the system startup sound.

The Burnt Offering

The Perils of Realness

By Stu Horvath • July 28th, 2017

Forget all that other trash. This is the real deal.

The Board Soul

A grizzled man with a beard looks down at a vaguely humanoid toy face near a leaded glass window. This is the card art for the Magic the Gathering Card Feldon.

Can a Card Game Make You Cry?

By Jeremy Signor • July 27th, 2017

We’ve already hashed this tired question out in video games, but can tabletop game mechanics move us in the same way?

A table top all set up with the board game By Order of the Queen.

By Order of the Queen: An Order of Frustration

By Sam Desatoff • July 27th, 2017

I have no inherent dislike for small amounts of luck in board games, but when a lengthy game comes down to a single dice roll, it can feel like a huge middle finger when you fail.

Spilled Ink

An anime character (Goku?) standing on the edge of a large hand drawn plain.

“We (Ain’t) Got Power” – Dragon Ball Z

By Austin Price • July 26th, 2017

Like every other child who grew up in the late 90s and early 00s with their attention split between videogames and anime, the announcement of Arc System Works’ Dragon Ball FighterZ filled me with an exhilaration hard to describe to anyone beyond that particular milieu but instantly familiar to my peers.