Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – November 2017 By Stu Horvath • November 15th, 2017 Our November issue hits the virtual newsstand and Stu’s got the the rundown of what’s inside.
The Burnt Offering A Miscellany By Stu Horvath • November 7th, 2017 This month’s column is the equivalent of a clip show – horror movies, criticism of toxic fandom, fretting about fatherhood and more inside!
Documentary Sunday The Confession Tapes By Megan Condis • November 6th, 2017 Why would you confess to a crime you didn’t commit? Megan Condis watches The Confession Tapes to find out.
Feature Excerpt Gods & Astronauts – An Excerpt from Unwinnable Monthly 96 By Oliver Milne • November 1st, 2017 If space is the final frontier for science, how come so many scientists and science fiction writers use the language of religion to describe it?
This Mortal Coyle Rynn and Arokh By Deirdre Coyle • October 31st, 2017 When my dragon friend broke into my classroom, I’d climb on his back and ride off into the Virginia sky. The other kids would be very impressed. They’d realize they hadn’t known me at all.
Blade Runner and the Violence of Humanity By Maddi Chilton • October 27th, 2017 Replicants bleed, stumble, hyperventilate, and wince. Pris and Roy kiss like grade-schoolers even as they mourn their friends and worry about the future…They’re frightened, and they don’t want to die.
Rookie of the Year The ‘Oh!’ Sound That Means Yes By Matt Marrone • October 25th, 2017 You wave goodbye and it’s early and it hurts and you’re working from home today.
Here's the Thing Content vs. Creator By Rob Rich • October 24th, 2017 Social media and the internet in general have made it easier than ever to “get to know” our favorite creators, for better or for worse.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – October 2017 By Stu Horvath • October 16th, 2017 The October issue of Unwinnable Monthly is out now! Whatever could be inside?
No Accounting for Taste No Accounting for Taste – The Right Wing Batman By Adam Boffa • October 5th, 2017 In Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Rising, progressive politics gets dressed up in the costume of a terrorist super villain.
Unwinnable Monthly Excerpt Southern Play – An Excerpt from Unwinnable Monthly 95 By Davis Cox • September 22nd, 2017 The American South is a complicated place. The games that come out of the South are no different.
Wonderful and Fantastic – An Excerpt from Unwinnable Monthly 95 By Pascal Wagner • September 21st, 2017 Shameful? Depressing? No, playing Wolfenstein: The New Order while being German is more ludicrous than you’d think.
Hit the Pavement – An Excerpt from Unwinnable Monthly 95 By Ryan Cooper • September 20th, 2017 Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a game about storytelling, so Ryan Cooper sets out to find a story to tell. He starts by picking up a hitchhiker…
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – September 2017 By Stu Horvath • September 15th, 2017 Our September issue is here and it is bursting with goodness. Stu gives you the nickle tour.
Self-Insert Alpha/Beta/Omega FanFic By Amanda Hudgins • September 7th, 2017 The things we saw when we searched Google images for Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics to illustrate this article would make all the cenobites in Hellraiser blush.
The Gothiest Dad – An Excerpt from Unwinnable Monthly 94 By Deirdre Coyle • August 22nd, 2017 Dream Daddy’s goth dad gets (almost) everything right about goth.
The Burnt Offering Nostalgia Bomb By Stu Horvath • August 18th, 2017 Nostalgia is the bottomless pit into which we willingly throw ourselves.
Unwinnable Monthly – August 2017 By Stu Horvath • August 16th, 2017 The August issue is out now! Find out what stories are inside and what songs to listen to while you read them.
Documentary Sunday Weiner By Megan Condis • August 2nd, 2017 “Like Huma, the film encourages us to step back and look at politicians like these with ‘a mixture of contempt and sadness.'”
Unwinnable Monthly – July 2017 By Stu Horvath • July 19th, 2017 Unwinnable Monthly’s got Twin Peaks fever.
Revving the Engine: All Walls Must Fall By Stu Horvath • June 29th, 2017 In order to save the future in All Walls Must Fall, you’ve got to travel through time, kill the baddies and go dancing.
The Why of Dead Horizon – An Excerpt from Unwinnable Monthly 92 By Matthew Ritter • June 26th, 2017 A clash with his grandfather over an old John Wayne western, leaves Matt Ritter struggling for understanding, two decades later.
The Burnt Offering Unpopular Opinions By Stu Horvath • June 23rd, 2017 All my unpopular opinions, gathered in one convenient place.
Separate Invisibilities – An Excerpt from Unwinnable Monthly 92 By Yussef Cole • June 23rd, 2017 Invisibility is impossible when you’re black.
Rookie of the Year Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Please By Matt Marrone • June 5th, 2017 The Rookie of the Year’s subway entrance was shuttered in 2015. It just reopened last month. Hooray?
Documentary Sunday At All Costs By Megan Condis • May 26th, 2017 In amateur youth sports, there’s more at stake than how you play the game.
Why the Best Thing on the Internet Right Now is a Naked Butt By Amanda Hudgins • April 24th, 2017 It’s OK, you can look at my butt.
No Accounting For Taste: Appetite for Destruction By Adam Boffa • April 13th, 2017 Hitler’s back, and he’s a social media darling.
Rookie of the Year Shit Show By Matt Marrone • March 31st, 2017 What the opening segment of S-Town, the podcast everyone loves this week, should have told us.
The Making of a Weird Autumn – An Excerpt from Unwinnable Monthly 89 By Max Covill • March 27th, 2017 Max Covill talks to the team behind Night in the Woods about the mystery and malaise of living in a post-industrial town.
The Librarians of Sleepiburgh By Jackson Ryan • March 24th, 2017 Years of unnecessary suffering at the hands of Bullfrog’s best.
Heartbound Is About a Boy’s Journey With Depression By Khee Hoon Chan • March 14th, 2017 Facing the world when depressed is an overwhelming challenge, but the encouragement of close friends and furry companions makes the journey much more tolerable.
Let Me Make Mistakes: A Plea to Developers By Matthew Byrd • March 9th, 2017 If the medium is going to mature, we need developers willing to make players feel dumb, allowing them the chance to figure things out via trial and error.
Moving Out, Moving On By Amanda Hudgins • February 27th, 2017 Packing Up… is a slow, near meditative experience about packing up your entire life into a bunch of boxes and heading out.
Self Insert Who is Clan Techie? By Amanda Hudgins • February 23rd, 2017 Fan ficton: where Judge Dredd meets Star Wars.
The Burnt Offering On Preconceived Notions By Stu Horvath • February 21st, 2017 How do you create criteria to find more surprises that defy your criteria?
A Good Death By Sophie Turner • February 17th, 2017 Death is often mishandled in videogames, but an upcoming release promises a different approach underpinned by a movement of death positivity.
Unwinnable Monthly – February 2017 By Stu Horvath • February 14th, 2017 Your introduction to the reimagined Unwinnable Monthly.