Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 16th, 2020 Grab your axe, smear some mud on your clothes, strap on some desperation and delve with us into the grim and perilous Old World.
Try Reading... Coven Edition By Harry Rabinowitz • November 13th, 2020 Witchy comic recommendations for our resident hexers.
Somewhere in Time, Side A By Stu Horvath • November 13th, 2020 The show moves on to cover Somewhere in Time, because that is the next album chronologically!
Mark Sable on Miskatonic By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 9th, 2020 Author Mark Sable introduces us to his new comic series Miskatonic, where cosmic horror and noir collide!
Here's the Thing On The Legend of Korra and Imperfection By Rob Rich • November 4th, 2020 Korra’s way of bringing some particularly significant character flaws to light through the eyes of their children makes them feel even more like human beings.
Forms in Light Some Things Last Some of the Time By Justin Reeve • November 3rd, 2020 Why are some buildings taken apart and recycled while others are simply renovated?
Always Autumn There Are Many Ways to Apocalypse. By Autumn Wright • November 2nd, 2020 As much as it is about the extraordinary ways in which people live their normal lives, Adventure Time is comprised of endings.
Kathryn Hymes on Xenolanguage By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 2nd, 2020 This week, we talk with Kathryn Hymes of Thorny Games about Xenolanguage: A Game About First Contact, on Kickstarter now!
Exploits Feature Feminine Flailing By Violet Adele Bloch • November 1st, 2020 It’s a representation of an archetypal feminine body, with little of the grace of that body’s tradition.
Another Look Sing It Out By Yussef Cole • October 30th, 2020 Lovers Rock, one of the films in Steve McQueen’s brilliant new “Small Axe” anthology about the UK’s West Indian community from the 1960s through the 1980s, is full of a palpable and irresistible energy.
Powerslave, Side A By Stu Horvath • October 30th, 2020 Don’t look now, but there are only two minutes to midnight!
Rookie of the Year It’s Complicated By Matt Marrone • October 29th, 2020 After five years, my original Series 0 Apple Watch broke.
Letter to a Heroine Dear Krile By Melissa King • October 28th, 2020 Dear Krile, While you might not get as much attention as your fellow Scions of the Seventh Dawn, you’ll always be my favorite member.
Checkpoint Colin Kaepernick, Madden NFL 21 and the Football Future That Wasn’t By Ben Sailer • October 27th, 2020 After punting on social justice for years, Electronic Arts recently patched Colin Kaepernick back into Madden NFL 21. Don’t rush to pat them on the back.
The Fail Cycle Write Your Own Pendragon Review By Declan Taggart • October 26th, 2020 Pick your path to the fall of Camelot.
Revving the Engine Robot Champions: Fight! For Your Life! By Stu Horvath • October 26th, 2020 We seldom have a clear view on how difficult it is to make videogames. Partly this is our own fault – most folks will always suspect that making games isn’t “work” the same way that digging ditches is.
Ravenloft Campaign Setting By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 26th, 2020 Dare you face the perils of the demi-plane of dread?
World Tour Indonesia By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 23rd, 2020 That’s why Gone With the Wind is/was revered and why we’re inundated with period pieces that refuse to meaningfully interrogate the class/colonial violence that this splendor is built upon.
Traces Ghost Stories By Diego Nicolás Argüello • October 23rd, 2020 In fact, you could consider it an anthology of sorts – one on my relationship with horror games, and on ghost stories. I’ll let you decide if they’re fictional or not.
Piece of Mind, Side B By Stu Horvath • October 23rd, 2020 From the band’s classic, “The Trooper,” to the bonkers lyrics of “Quest for Fire,” to the book report about Dune that is “To Tame a Land,” this album side is all killer, no filler.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – October 2020 By Noah Springer • October 21st, 2020 Last year, I was overwhelmed by all the quality drops over the full season, and this year, September 25 seemed to mark the beginning of the season with an amazing selection of releases I just can’t do justice.
Feature Excerpt Dungeons & Dollhouses By Orrin Grey • October 20th, 2020 I’m not going to claim that society didn’t yet have those concepts, but I hadn’t been exposed to them. I came up in small towns in the Midwest; gender norms were pretty rigid.
Feature Excerpt A Friend at the End of the World By Adam Goodall • October 20th, 2020 But what space do you and your camera occupy in this city? You’re far from an observer, an outside eye; rather, Faulkner positions the player as a site of tension in this world falling apart.
Feature Excerpt Death is Not the End By Nicholas Straub • October 20th, 2020 The inhabitants of the Dark Souls universe seek a hero to rekindle the first flame, for without it, they believe, all life will cease. But they are wrong.
Vampire: The Masquerade By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 19th, 2020 Will we cling to some semblance of our humanity? Or will we tear your face clean off?
Piece of Mind, Side A By Stu Horvath • October 16th, 2020 Eddie gets a lobotomy, Icarus gets torched and Iron Maiden sees their best response in the US so far.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – October 2020 By Stu Horvath • October 15th, 2020 This issue is packed!
Thieves’ World By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 12th, 2020 Back alleys and dark deeds await in this week’s episode…
The Number of the Beast, Side B By Stu Horvath • October 9th, 2020 Hell and fire was spawned to be released.
No Accounting for Taste Patterns in the Ivy By Adam Boffa • October 9th, 2020 What can city-building games tell us about climate change?
Here's the Thing Alone in Duskers By Rob Rich • October 8th, 2020 Rob reminisces about his favorite roguelike, which is also one of his favorite horror games.
Forms in Light Architectural Improvisation By Justin Reeve • October 7th, 2020 A look at the repurposed architecture of Metro: Exodus.
The Heavy Pour With Friends Like These: A Wasteland Verse of TrickyPixie83 By Sara Clemens • October 6th, 2020 “I take damage, I take damage!”
World Action and Adventure By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 5th, 2020 No dragons. No laser rifles. The ultimate tabletop RPG about the real world.
Another Look Tragedy Erased By Yussef Cole • October 5th, 2020 “Bury my mother, pale and slight, bury my father, eyes shut tight! Bury my sisters, two by two, and then when you’re done, let’s bury me too!”
The Number of the Beast, Side A By Stu Horvath • October 2nd, 2020 Six! Six six! The number of the beast!
Rookie of the Year Neighborhood Must-Watch By Matt Marrone • October 2nd, 2020 “I was both there and not there during a gunfight that both did and did not tear through my quiet slice of Astoria.”
Exploits Feature Sewing Machines at Dawn By Hannah Copestake • October 1st, 2020 Welcome to one of my favorite movies and my ultimate revenge film: The Dressmaker.