Feature Excerpt Let People Be Bad at Games By Rob Rich • August 22nd, 2024 Rob is sick and tired of “skill” being used as a metric for whether or not people are qualified to critique, or even enjoy, videogames.
Feature Excerpt How Failing a Speedrun World Record Taught Me To Enjoy Gaming By Mira Lazine • August 21st, 2024 What matters more is experiencing the community behind games, seeing all they have to offer, and just enjoying the ride.
GenCon 2024 By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 19th, 2024 Two weeks later and Stu is still tired.
Here's the Thing The Neon Horror of System Shock By Rob Rich • August 16th, 2024 Rob loves the System Shock franchise, despite having limited exposure to it, but the recent remake has turned it into an obsession.
Forms in Light How to Build a Racecar By Justin Reeve • August 16th, 2024 The similarities between a skyscraper and a racecar might not be apparent, but the overall approach in terms of design and construction is largely identical.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – August 2024 By David Shimomura • August 15th, 2024 Sometimes the fastest way to enjoyment is taking the long way around.
Noah's Beat Box Memories of a Commonwealth By Noah Springer • August 14th, 2024 I’ve lived in a number of cities over my life, but my memories of Boston seem to feel stronger, maybe because of my time in Fallout 4.
Casting Deep Meteo Orchid in Defiant Embrace of Age By Levi Rubeck • August 14th, 2024 The members of Orchid got together, found the weight of the years less cumbersome than they imagined, and in the most pure punk spirit of all said, “Fuck it.”
Area of Effect The Play Space By Jay Castello • August 13th, 2024 Wandrer.earth logs all the roads you’ve walked on (via a Strava integration). There is no way that these numbers will move considerably, ever, but seeing where I’ve been is compelling enough.
I Played It, Like, Twice... The Monster Race: Simple Times with the Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Game By Orrin Grey • August 12th, 2024 When it comes to comparing the Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Game to any of the other Scooby-Doo games we’ve covered here, there’s really no comparison at all.