Revving the Engine Bringing Back the Good Times By Melissa King • February 23rd, 2022 The On3D Studios development team chats about their upcoming indie game D.A.N.G.E.R. Team, an action thriller borrowing its style from classic spy films.
Feature Excerpt Hell is Other Shooters By Andrei Filote • February 22nd, 2022 If we organize our play to prepare for the demands of later life, then is it possible to create a new set of values simply by the games that we choose to play?
Feature Excerpt Comfort in the Abyss By Luke Rotella • February 21st, 2022 My relationship with That Night, Steeped By Blood River.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – February 2022 By David Shimomura • February 17th, 2022 February is cold and unforgiving. But we still make a magazine!
Here's the Thing I Miss The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. By Rob Rich • February 11th, 2022 Rob reminisces about one of his favorite TV shows that was gone all too soon (like they always are).
Forms in Light Sekiro’s Floating World By Justin Reeve • February 10th, 2022 Sekiro’s cloud motif likely refers to the “floating world” of the Edo period, which offered many services geared toward samurai and the rising merchant class.
Casting Deep Meteo An Introduction By Levi Rubeck • February 9th, 2022 A word of explanation on the particular alchemy of interests that fascinate and beguile our newest magazine columnist.
Another Look My Cousin’s Atari By Yussef Cole • February 4th, 2022 Yussef receives a shock to the system (in more ways than one).
Rookie of the Year I Bought a House By Matt Marrone • February 3rd, 2022 Matt offers his tips on buying your first home.
Collision Detection Welcome to the Circus of Value By Ben Sailer • February 2nd, 2022 Ben ponders the absurdity of inflated videogame software and hardware valuations on the used market and nearly has an existential crisis.
Hyperfixations The Silent Cartography By Julie Muncy • January 31st, 2022 When it comes to playing through the open world missions of Halo: Infinite, silence is golden.
This Mortal Coyle Maureen Corley from Full Throttle By Deirdre Coyle • January 28th, 2022 Were Ben Throttle and Maureen Corley secretly boning after all?
Past Presence Unholy Aisles By Emily Price • January 27th, 2022 In a new column, Emily Price sets out to examine media objects’ relationships to time and loss.
Eyeing Elsewhere A Different Reality By Phillip Russell • January 26th, 2022 Unlike more standard reality television fare, School of Chocolate shows there is drama to be found in the struggles of learning new things.
Try Reading... A New Kind of Green Lantern Story By Harry Rabinowitz • January 25th, 2022 A murder mystery at its core, Far Sector interrogates the idea of a peaceful society while delivering on action, intrigue, style and heart.
Revving the Engine Mean Streets: Project Haven By Ben Sailer • January 24th, 2022 Watch the trailer for Project Haven and you might assume you’re seeing something from a large studio. Its actual origin story is rooted in humble beginnings.
Feature Excerpt Become Cursed: Doubt By George Umbarger • January 21st, 2022 Slaying uncertainty via an unusual in-Spire-ation.
Feature Excerpt Children of the Night By Alma Roda-Gil • January 20th, 2022 Vampires, blood libel and Midnight Mass.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – January 2022 By David Shimomura • January 18th, 2022 It’s time for our January issue! We’ve got new friends for you!
Here's the Thing Nintendo Has No Idea What It’s Doing By Rob Rich • January 13th, 2022 Rob thinks Nintendo still has no idea what it’s doing when it comes to online services and functionality.
Forms in Light Ashes to Ashes By Justin Reeve • January 12th, 2022 Take some time to poke around the rooms of House of Ashes when you aren’t being chased by vampires and you’ll be richly rewarded.
The Heavy Pour I Know You Are but What Am I? By Sara Clemens • January 10th, 2022 Little Sara sends a message to an old pal.
Self-Insert Ultra-Long By Amanda Hudgins • December 31st, 2021 Long fanworks are interesting both for their clear amount of dedication to the craft and how much of an outlier they actually are.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – December 2021 By Noah Springer • December 29th, 2021 Noah takes a stab at putting his fingerprints on the 2021 hip hop canon with a look at some favorite albums from the year.
Revving the Engine Surviving the Near Future in Phobos Subhuman By Ben Sailer • December 27th, 2021 There can be something especially empowering about feeling as though you can shape and survive whatever is around the next corner.
Feature Story The Unbearable Lightness of Deathloop By David Shimomura • December 23rd, 2021 In the moment it is easy to love Deathloop but, upon reflection, it feels as though it was barely even there.
Feature Excerpt The Sixties That Weren’t, or, How Psychonauts 2 Forgets Politics By Christian Haines • December 22nd, 2021 Double Fine’s videogame Psychonauts 2 draws on the experimental energies of the 1960s only to mute that decade’s political fervor.
Feature Excerpt This Is My Favorite Shop in the Citadel By Emma Kostopolus • December 20th, 2021 The ethics of Mass Effect roleplay.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – December 2021 By David Shimomura • December 16th, 2021 It’s the last Month(ly) of the Year!
Here's the Thing Why I Love Tobot Toys By Rob Rich • December 10th, 2021 Rob’s been happily collecting transforming robot toys for several years but has a particular fondness for a certain Korean toy line.
Forms in Light Parisian Purification By Justin Reeve • December 9th, 2021 Paris was the city of muck and mud long before it became the city of lights, and it really isn’t pretty in Assassin’s Creed Unity.
Another Look Better Late than Never By Yussef Cole • December 7th, 2021 On always being a few steps behind in a never-ending videogame console race.
Rookie of the Year Deep Space Infinity By Matt Marrone • December 6th, 2021 In the time of television binge-watching, what we really need is a show that goes on forever.
Collision Detection Rethinking the Post-Apocalypse in Eastward By Ben Sailer • December 3rd, 2021 Post-apocalyptic stories are often framed as tales of what happens after everything ends. Eastward instead shows how life moves on.
Hyperfixations On the Death of Samus Aran By Julie Muncy • December 2nd, 2021 For Samus, her body is her central locus of meaning, the way both in which the world interprets her and in which she, so far as we can tell, interprets herself.
Self-Insert Soulmate Goose of Enforcement By Amanda Hudgins • December 1st, 2021 Geese exist to cause trouble. And honk. Or perhaps, help someone find the love of their life.
Another Look Solitary Masculinity By Yussef Cole • December 1st, 2021 The solitary, prepper-style know-how in 2018’s Leave No Trace feels eerily familiar to the masochistic “git gud” approach which has long plagued videogames.
Eyeing Elsewhere What Lies Beneath The Sand By Phillip Russell • November 30th, 2021 How deep into Dune is Hollywood willing to dig?
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – November 2021 By Noah Springer • November 29th, 2021 They say if you play Mozart in the womb for your kid, they come out smarter. But what happens when you play them Wu-Tang on their first day of life?
Revving the Engine Mods & Mythology By Melissa King • November 24th, 2021 The Australian Writers’ Guild Award-winning and critically acclaimed The Forgotten City had humble beginnings as a Skyrim mod.