List-O-Mania – December 2017 By Team Unwinnable • December 26th, 2017 All the stuff that filled Team Unwinnable’s free time this month – now with TV and Movie categories!
Another Look Dujanah By Yussef Cole • December 22nd, 2017 There’s a responsibility that comes with using the art, language and symbolism of another culture.
Feature Excerpt A Most Curious Black Hole By Maxwell Neely-Cohen • December 21st, 2017 Is Crusader Kings II a strategy game? A simulation of history? A storytelling engine? Maxwell Neely-Cohen dives into the black hole to find out.
The Board Soul Skin Deep By Jeremy Signor • December 21st, 2017 Why do we deem judging a game based on how it looks as superficial? A game’s aesthetic beauty is every bit as integral to its quality as its gameplay.
Feature Excerpt Localize It! By Jun Wilkinson • December 20th, 2017 Earthbound is a masterpiece of localization. How did they do it?
Cardboard Fallout is Worth its Weight in Caps By Levi Rubeck • December 19th, 2017 These days I think about the collapse of civilization quite a lot, but this version of Fallout carries the series’s radioactive torch of wasteland fun.
MegaSphere: Exclusion by Design By Khee Hoon Chan • December 19th, 2017 MegaSphere is a homage, a throwback to retro 2D platformers of yore, carrying with it a yearning for days when videogame victories were hard-won and required a degree of game literacy.