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Hornet stands at the edge of a cliff of greenery, holding her pin sword.

Silksong is for Speedrunners

By Dr. Emily Price • October 28th, 2025

Through its moveset, level design and overall resource economy, Silksong teaches you, on your first journey through it, how to be a speedrunner.

A screencap from the trailer for Raw Meat also known as Death Line with the title in bloody red and a police officer with a moustache staring forward in horror

What a Way to Live: Gary Sherman’s Eegah, aka Death Line (1972)

By Orrin Grey • October 27th, 2025

The cannibalism angle is played up in the alternate title, Raw Meat.

Murder She Wrote: A Board Game of Strategy and Pursuit

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 27th, 2025

Send in the clones!

A photograph of one of the floppy disks for installing Doom on MS DOS

How Much of a Game Can You Change Before it Stops Being Itself?

By Claribel F. Millgress • October 24th, 2025

We can make and unmake Doom at our pleasure.

Feature Excerpt
A spread from Sepulcher featuring coffin-shaped playing cards with different parts of skeletons on them.

Grave Goods: Sepulchre and the Game as Object

By Orrin Grey • October 24th, 2025

There is the hobby of playing board games, and then there is the entirely separate hobby of buying board games.

Feature Story
A screenshot from myhouse.wad shows sunken living room rendered in the style of Doom II.

In The End, It Always Comes Back to the Old House

By J.M. Henson • October 23rd, 2025

No matter how far we wander, we always come back to that house, in the same way that in my restless dreams, I too revert to the embrace of my childhood home.

A screenshot from Hollow Knight Silksong featuring white roses lit from above with a wooden hook standing among them

On Faith, Eternity, and Impossibility in Hollow Knight: Silksong’s Pharloom: A Symptomatic Reading

By Christopher Spina • October 22nd, 2025

For those residing in the Underworks, faith only serves to ensure obedience to the system of oppression.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – October 2025

By David Shimomura • October 21st, 2025

Welcome to our generic spooptacular.

A screenshot from Ms. 45 where a young woman is dressed as a nun and holding a 45 caliber hand gun while standing in front of a spooky spiderweb wall decoration

The Nerve of That Guy: At a Halloween Party with Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45 (1981)

By Orrin Grey • October 20th, 2025

Despite its obvious genre trappings, Ms. 45 is a hard film to pigeonhole.

The Future King

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 20th, 2025

Remember the twist ending of the Arthurian romances when Bruce Lee appears at Camlann to kick Mordred’s ass? Me neither.

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