Rookie of the Year: Into the Heart of Darkness By Matt Marrone • October 29th, 2012 The Rookie of the Year ventures into Williamsburg and lives to tell about it. Barely.
Rookie of the Year: My Favorite Game By Matt Marrone • October 15th, 2012 The Rookie of the Year waxes poetic about geoDefense and declares an official Unwinnable letter-writing campaign to its creator.
Rookie of the Year: I Am a Deadbeat Gamer By Matt Marrone • October 1st, 2012 The Rookie of the Year has been playing a lot of videogames. And not finishing them.
Rookie of the Year: Sometimes It Won’t Come So Easy By Matt Marrone • September 17th, 2012 The Rookie of the Year has found a way – finally – to shut off his brain.
Rookie of the Year: Save Hubig’s Pies! By Matt Marrone • September 3rd, 2012 The Rookie of the Year implores Unwinnable readers to help rebuild a New Orleans institution.
Rookie of the Year: Rocksnore Games By Matt Marrone • August 20th, 2012 The Rookie of the Year has a sneaking suspicion that Rockstar’s games are – gasp! – boring.
Rookie of the Year: Your Invitation to Twin Peaks Fest 2012 By Matt Marrone • July 30th, 2012 The Rookie of the Year gears up for Unwinnable’s coverage of the 20th annual Twin Peaks Festival in North Bend, Washington.
Rookie of the Year: The Old Ballgame By Matt Marrone • July 9th, 2012 The Rookie of the Year unwraps a magic box of baseball cards – from the future!
Rookie of the Year: The Lost Kinkos of Chiang Mai By Matt Marrone • June 25th, 2012 The Rookie of the Year rides an elephant, ogles bare Euro-flesh and learns the secret phrase for making instant Thai friends (then writes home to tell about it all).
Rookie of the Year: The Biggest Loser (Part III: I Am Slender Man) By Matt Marrone • June 11th, 2012 The Rookie of the Year’s ego is out of control. Here’s why that’s a really, really, REALLY scary thing.
Rookie of the Year: The Soundtrack to the Best Film in the World By Matt Marrone • May 28th, 2012 More than a quarter century later, the Rookie of the Year reviews the original soundtrack to The Golden Child – the greatest movie ever made.
Rookie of the Year: Raiders of the Lost Wii By Matt Marrone • May 14th, 2012 The Rookie of the Year dusted off his Wii to play Skyward Sword – and is now furiously fleeing from a giant, rolling boulder.
Rookie of the Year: Friendship Isn’t Necessarily Magic By Matt Marrone • April 30th, 2012 In an open letter to Unwinnable’s Gia Grillo, the Rookie of the Year explains why he will never watch My Little Pony ever again.
Rookie of the Year: I Posterized Geek Flea 3 By Matt Marrone • April 9th, 2012 The Rookie of the Year posterizes Unwinnable’s Geek Flea 3, gets hugged by Hambone and Stu’s mom, buys stuff – and nearly comes to blows with Ken Lucas.
Rookie of the Year: The (New) iPad (3) By Matt Marrone • March 26th, 2012 The Rookie of the Year got a new iPad. Should you get one, too? And if you do, what apps do you need?
Rookie of the Year: Draw Something … Or Else By Matt Marrone • March 12th, 2012 In an exclusive interview with the developer, the Rookie of the Year uncovers the dark side of OMGPOP’s Draw Something.
Rookie of the Year: Lame In-App Purchases May Be Proof of Impending American Apocalypse By Matt Marrone • February 27th, 2012 The Rookie of the Year refuses to make in-app purchases for Temple Run on iPad, iPhone, iOS or anywhere – until they stop sucking.
Rookie of the Year: Temple of Zoom By Matt Marrone • February 13th, 2012 The Rookie of the Year plays Temple Run for iOS – the scourge of all New York City schoolteachers.
Rookie of the Year: Your Guide To Skyrim’s Civil War By Matt Marrone • January 30th, 2012 The Rookie of the Year answers Skyrim‘s toughest dilemma: Are you Team Stormcloak or Team Imperial?
Rookie of the Year: Skyrim, The Most Terrifying Game Ever By Matt Marrone • January 16th, 2012 The Rookie of the Year is scared to death of Skyrim. But you’d never guess why.
Rookie of the Year: Five New Year’s Videogame Resolutions By Matt Marrone • January 2nd, 2012 The Rookie of the Year promises to avoid the sophomore jinx as he looks ahead to a prosperous 2012.
Rookie of the Year: Confessions of an Xbox Polygamist By Matt Marrone • December 12th, 2011 The Rookie of the Year shares a heartfelt open letter to his two Xbox wives.
Rookie of the Year: A Mammoth Global Conspiracy By Matt Marrone • November 28th, 2011 The Rookie of the Year plays Skyrim and uncovers evidence of a mammoth global conspiracy.
Rookie of the Year: The Road Not Tekken By Matt Marrone • November 14th, 2011 The Rookie of the Year plays Tekken 6 and becomes fascinated with a character whose origin story may truly be a first in videogame, nay, storytelling history.
Rookie of the Year: Three Strikes and I’m Out By Matt Marrone • October 31st, 2011 The Rookie of the Year downloads a demo of Major League Baseball 2K11 for Xbox – and immediately gets demoted all the way back to Single-A.
Rookie of the Year: HD? Try 2D6 By Matt Marrone • October 10th, 2011 The Rookie of the Year plays Dungeons & Dragons for the first time in 25 years and decides it says something about the American Dream. But what?
Rookie of the Year: The Biggest Loser (Part II: Presidential Fitness) By Matt Marrone • September 26th, 2011 The Rookie of the Year uses Lose It! for iOS and Fable II for Xbox to solve childhood obesity (or at least his own).
Rookie of the Year: Wii Envy By Matt Marrone • September 11th, 2011 The Rookie of the Year has stopped playing with his Wii. Here’s why.
Rookie of the Year: The Voice of God By Matt Marrone • August 29th, 2011 Matt Marrone is enjoying Xbox Live’s Summer of Arcade title Bastion – leftover Microsoft Points, disappointing voiceover and all.
Rookie of the Year: Road To Rule By Matt Marrone • August 15th, 2011 Rookie of the Year plays Fable III – and smokes Unwinnable senior editor Charles Moran. What’s more satisfying than leveling up in Fable III? Leaving Chuck Moran in your dust.
Rookie of the Year: Use Your Allusion By Matt Marrone • August 1st, 2011 The Ayn Rand-inspired BioShock has Matt Marrone flashing back to his days as a lit major; he suggests other classic literature be turned into videogames.
Rookie of the Year: The Biggest Loser By Matt Marrone • July 19th, 2011 Matt Marrone wants to change his life (and get healthier). He turns to the iOS app Lose It! and Fable 2 for inspiration.
Rookie of the Year: This Was A Triumph By Matt Marrone • July 5th, 2011 The Unwinnable Rookie of the Year, Matt Marrone, doesn’t care that the cake is a lie. He is an unabashed Portal fanboy now thanks to Valve’s Portal 1 and 2.
Rookie of the Year: Blood Brothers By Matt Marrone • June 21st, 2011 Matt Marrone played Left 4 Dead 2 on XBox Live for the first time and wound up killing Ken Lucas in a hail of bullets… a lot.
Rookie of the Year: Grandfather Theft Auto By Matt Marrone • June 6th, 2011 Matt Marrone is new to next gen consoles. He just started playing Grand Theft Auto IV and remembers his first adult videogame – Leisure Suit Larry.
Rookie of the Year: The Walking Dead By Matt Marrone • May 23rd, 2011 Matt Marrone, a new gamer, plays the Valve multiplayer shooter, Left 4 Dead 2. Now he loves killing zombies. Will his new-found blood lust ever be satiated?
Rookie of the Year: Hell’s Kitchen By Matt Marrone • May 9th, 2011 In this edition of Rookie of the Year, Matt Marrone plays Gears of War, muses about Super Mario Bros. and almost burns his apartment down.
Rookie of the Year: The Newlywed Game By Matt Marrone • April 25th, 2011 Matt Marrone hasn’t had a TV for years. Now he owns an Xbox 360 and Fable II. He has only just begun his journey.
