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Another Look
A purple clad figure with a dice for a head and a pencil thin moustache over top of a gambling board. This is a still from the game Cuphead.

Cuphead and the Racist Spectre of Fleischer Animation

By Yussef Cole • November 10th, 2017

I see a game that’s haunted by ghosts; the specter of black culture, appropriated first by the minstrel set then by the Fleischers, Disney and others.

A purple haired creature with large ears, glitched out over a black text box that reads: "Now I don't really know what to think here. I feel like I just want to grab her and hug her and tell her everything is going to be okay and she can stay here for as long as she wants. But nothing can be that simple, right? What if we don't get on well together? What if her parents somehow find otu she's here and come yell at me? I'd defend Pisti, but it'd be so sterssful"

Yuri Game Jam Inspires Some Queer Tales

By Alyse Stanley • November 10th, 2017

Developers were given two months (September 1 through October 31) to complete their games this year. Entries ran the gambit from walking simulators to shooters to rhythm games.

A box that reads "Snake Oil" with a subtitle "It cures what ails you"

Snake Oil: The Only Party Game You’ll Ever Need

By Sam Desatoff • November 9th, 2017

The pantheon of party games holds esteemed company, and Snake Oil assuredly belongs the upper echelons among Scattergories, Pictionary and Charades.

Feature Excerpt

I, Murderspy – An Excerpt from Unwinnable Monthly 96

By Bill Coberly • November 9th, 2017

Good or bad, the Mass Effect‘s murderspy Commander Shepard is always right.

The Board Soul
red haired man with blue skin and white hair. This is the cover art for the game Sentient.

Manipulate Fate

By Jeremy Signor • November 9th, 2017

Giving luck the finger never felt so good.

Three angry looking women surrounded by shredded paper.

Last Week’s Comics 11/8/2017

By Sara Clemens • November 8th, 2017

Sara Clemens shares her thoughts on the most recent issues of Saga and Paper Girls.

California Gothic

By Levi Rubeck • November 7th, 2017

Nearly twenty years later, I’m afforded the chance to correct the failings of my youth and catch The Black Heart Procession on tour again

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!

Springy blonde hair and noodle like appendages come out of a character named "minMin" from the game Arms

The Uncomfortable Racial Stereotypes in ARMS and Videogames

By Khee Hoon Chan • November 7th, 2017

Part of me find Min Min’s appetite for ramen (lamian?) genuinely endearing—but it may be so for other people of Chinese ancestry.

Fascination

On Who Saw Her Die?

By Astrid Budgor • November 6th, 2017

As a director not bloodthirsty enough for the horror fans and not tasteful enough for the cinephiles, it only makes him ripe for endless rediscovery.

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