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Feature Story
A close-up photo of a log burning in a roaring fire, the flames like yellow liquid.

A Chat With the Publisher

By David Shimomura • June 22nd, 2022

Editor in chief David Shimomura sits down with Publisher Stu Horvath to reflect on the state of Unwinnable past and present.

The Heavy Pour
Detail of a red brick wall hand-drawn in colored pencil.

What to Do for Dinner

By Sara Clemens • June 7th, 2022

Some people make decisions like *that.*

Another Look
A screenshot of the pixelated cast of Star Fox, including main character Fox McCloud, flanked by Slippy Toad and Peppy Hare

Starry-Eyed Fox

By Yussef Cole • June 6th, 2022

“I’ve been trying to clear Star Fox,” she ventured, holding up the rectangular cartridge with a question in her eyes.

Past Presence
A moody shot of a thatch-roofed tiki bar called The Rum Colony from the videogame Kentucky Route Zero.

Cheap Machines

By Dr. Emily Price • May 31st, 2022

Using speculative genres, games propose a horror that lies within debt and the meaningless work meant to assuage it: that rather than being a neat system with a clear path to success, it is instead an unresolvable problem.

An etching of Boston harbor during the Great Boston Fire of 1872.

Boston is Burning!

By Justin Reeve • May 5th, 2022

Many of the structures were too tall to reach by fire ladder and there wasn’t enough water pressure in the fire hoses to put out the flames on some of the rooftops.

A sepia photograph of seven men in coats and hats standing on a temporary ramp ascending to the top of the still under-construction Brooklyn Bridge.

As the Sea-Gull Flies

By Dr. Emily Price • May 4th, 2022

The success of the Met in the last few months has inspired a new museum that has opened in our very own South Brooklyn: The Sea-Gull Gallery, a two-story establishment not five blocks from our offices.

A grainy sepia photograph of the windows on a New Jersey apartment building.

Meet the Met!

By Matt Marrone • April 29th, 2022

While no one would mistake the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a restaurant or trading post, its moniker lacks a certain. . . flair.

A sepia-toned pen and ink lithograph of three men each looking into an arm of a tripod microscope

We Should Pay Attention to Germ Theory!

By Rob Rich • April 28th, 2022

Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch have an interesting theory about sickness, and we should start paying attention.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – April 1872

By David Shimomura • April 15th, 2022

A trip down memory lane for this special milestone!

The Heavy Pour
A line drawing of a girl in cutoff jean shorts and sneakers hanging upside down from a large tree branch. She is beaming.

Extra Lives

By Sara Clemens • April 5th, 2022

I can hunch over Electronic Gaming Monthly in the magazine aisle and pretend to be another angsty videogame geek. Everyone knows those are boys.

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