This Mortal Coyle Roach from The Witcher By Deirdre Coyle • September 30th, 2020 Roach is always there for me.
The Fail Cycle Looking Back While Moving On By Declan Taggart • September 29th, 2020 Family lives for nostalgia, but it’s not saying that things used to be better in the good old days.
Traces There’s No Youth Anymore By Diego Nicolás Argüello • September 28th, 2020 Deadly Class, the thrill of lying to your parents and the fading of freedom.
Letter to a Heroine Isabelle By Melissa King • September 28th, 2020 Melissa King appreciates Isabelle from Animal Crossing.
Killers, Side B By Stu Horvath • September 25th, 2020 KILLER! BEHIND YOU! *wiggedy-wiggedy-wiggedy-wiggedy-wiggedy-woooooo*
Self-Insert Niche Interests By Amanda Hudgins • September 25th, 2020 “Sometimes, in fiction, you write about your experience so vividly, so precisely, that it could not have come from anyone but you.”
World Tour Finding the poetry in The Burial of Kojo By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 24th, 2020 An existential wail, followed by a look at Ghanaian film The Burial of Kojo.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – September 2020 By Noah Springer • September 23rd, 2020 In honor of the new old Tony Hawk game, we’ve got hip hop to grind to.
Feature Excerpt Watching Myself Die By Phillip Russell • September 22nd, 2020 On Blackness in The Last of Us
Feature Excerpt Four Brief Discussions of Cultist Simulator and Planescape: Torment By Violet Adele Bloch • September 22nd, 2020 A sketch.
Always Autumn Weird Autumn By Autumn Wright • September 22nd, 2020 It is the first day of fall, so return, return, return.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – September 2020 By Stu Horvath • September 21st, 2020 Your guided tour to this month’s table of contents.
Lankhmar By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 21st, 2020 This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we walk the shadowy streets of Lankhmar: City of Adventure, one of the greatest RPG city sourcebooks.
Killers, Side A By Stu Horvath • September 20th, 2020 Stu and Ed discuss Side A of Iron Maiden’s second studio album, Killers!
Here's the Thing That $70 Sword of Damocles By Rob Rich • September 14th, 2020 With an impeding ninth video game console generation looming on the horizon, people have begun buzzing (read: arguing) about a proposed game MSRP of $70. Now Rob wants to weigh in.
Stormbringer By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 14th, 2020 Will you face your doom head on or seek to outrun it?
Maiden Voyage By Stu Horvath • September 12th, 2020 Welcome to the launch of the Maiden Voyage, a podcast about every single Iron Maiden album!
Always Autumn Fall is an Ending and it is Ending. By Autumn Wright • September 11th, 2020 “Autumn is the ending of things and we are in its third stanza.”
Rookie of the Year Parallel AIs By Matt Marrone • September 10th, 2020 Person of Interest > Westworld
The Fail Cycle GeoGuessr: A Travelogue By Declan Taggart • September 9th, 2020 “This would be so much easier if we just Googled the restaurant,” I say. She nods, slowly, sympathetically. “But we’re not filthy disgusting cheaters, are we? Declan?”
Traces The Ones Who Understand By Diego Nicolás Argüello • September 8th, 2020 “It turns out that no matter how much you’ve written in your lifetime, very few people will consider your work if it’s in a foreign language.”
Tales From the Loop By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 7th, 2020 Travel back in time to the 1980s that never were.
You Should Not Get Your Sexual Education from Fanfiction. By Ailuridae • September 7th, 2020 The headline says it all.
World Tour England By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 4th, 2020 Oluwatayo starts his tour on his home turf of England with the film Bait and the latest album from Charmpit.
Collision Detection Baseball is Dead, Long Live Blaseball By Ben Sailer • September 3rd, 2020 The only thing weirder than the satirical baseball sim Blaseball is actual professional baseball.
Try Reading... Descending Into Yourself By Harry Rabinowitz • September 2nd, 2020 Iasmin Omar Ata has published a hard and honest debut novel tackling epilepsy, isolation and illness
Revving the Engine No Straight Roads: Rock Will Never Die By Stu Horvath • September 1st, 2020 Unwinnable chats with co-founder Daim Dziauddin about Metronomik’s new, rockin’ adventure: No Straight Roads.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – August 2020 By Noah Springer • September 1st, 2020 “We’re still in quarantine, and I’m still listening to beats and rhymes.”
Exploits Feature Hades By Diego Nicolás Argüello • September 1st, 2020 “Even though the gods have the power to grant him infinite strength, they choose to wield Zagreus as yet another pawn…”
The Green Knight By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 31st, 2020 This week we check out the RPG based on the forthcoming A24 film The Green Knight.
Feature Excerpt Talkin’ ‘Bout Bugsnax By Melissa King • August 28th, 2020 A look at how Kero Kero Bonito came up with gaming’s happiest bop of the summer.
Feature Excerpt The Relatable Dystopia By Mark Hill • August 28th, 2020 Mirror’s Edge is one of the few franchises to acknowledge that every dystopia is someone’s utopia.
Feature Excerpt Your Choices Matter: The Real Power Fantasy By Ruth Cassidy • August 28th, 2020 An interview with the co-narrative leads on Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire about subverting that power fantasy of the Chosen One.
Rifts By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 24th, 2020 Don your Glitteboy armor and dive into the Megaverse!
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – August 2020 By Stu Horvath • August 17th, 2020 All the usual great stories, plus three new columnists!
Three Hearts and Three Lions By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 17th, 2020 Travel through time to World War II, then travel through time again to the age of Charlemagne, and learn the secrets of the knight of three hearts and three lions.
Another Look Learning How to Share By Yussef Cole and Vivian Chan • August 14th, 2020 Sharing credit shouldn’t feel like sacrificing your reputation or taking away from what you have accomplished, especially when you are sharing it with someone close to you.
Revving the Engine A Long Walk in the Woods By Stu Horvath • August 14th, 2020 “I want people to leave my games feeling like they’ve been somewhere else.”
Here's the Thing Missing Mission Europa By Rob Rich • August 13th, 2020 Rob’s favorite mobile game is something barely anyone has heard of and, due to Apple’s failure to support older software, it basically doesn’t exist anymore.