Feature Excerpt Lo-Fi Hip Hop Beats To Have a Nervous Breakdown To By Ana Diaz • June 25th, 2019 At least an entire generation working themselves to death can listen to some cozy beats while they do it.
Tony DiTerlizzi Interview By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 24th, 2019 This week, we have a nice long chat with children’s book author and legendary Dungeons & Dragons artist Tony DiTerlizzi!
Feature Excerpt Order and Chaos By Justin Reeve • June 24th, 2019 Behind Hitman 2‘s stark, modernist buildings lies a symbolic crusade to reclaim the architectural style.
Episode 9 – Mass Effect By Sara Clemens, David Shimomura and Gavin Craig • June 19th, 2019 Gavin Craig joins the gang to talk about all things Mass Effect!
The Corpse Queen of Portugal By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • June 18th, 2019 Some lovers will go to great lengths to be together.
Unwinnable Monthly – June 2019 By Stu Horvath • June 16th, 2019 Get a nice cold lemonade (bourbon optional) and kick back with the latest issue of Unwinnable Monthly!
Here's the Thing The Joys of Animal Companions in Videogames By Rob Rich • June 12th, 2019 Rob waxes nostalgic about the different videogame animal companions he’s met over the years.
Coffee and Other Afterlife Necessities – The Story of The Valley of the Kings By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • June 11th, 2019 In this episode Robin takes you on an adventure through Egypt’s infamous Valley of the Kings.
Dungeons & Dragons 1.5 Edition By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 10th, 2019 Did you know there was an unofficial 1.5 edition of Dungeons & Dragons? There was and it is mostly not good! Stu walks us through the history.
Backlog Almost the Only Cats I Have Ever Had By Gavin Craig • June 10th, 2019 Gavin talks about his cat. And his second cat. And his first first cat.
The Heavy Pour Into the Mystic By Sara Clemens • June 10th, 2019 If you’re one of the rare few terrified by horses, they’re pretty easy to avoid. Unless you play videogames.
Pets Feature Seven Videogame Chickens, Listed from Least to Most Likely to Kick My Ass By Melissa King • June 7th, 2019 Look at all these chickens.
The Burnt Offering The One Good Dog By Stu Horvath • June 6th, 2019 When pitches came in for the Pets Issue, Stu expected to get several pitches about the dog from Fable II. He got zero. So he wrote his own, goddammit!
Collision Detection Dogs of War By Ben Sailer • June 5th, 2019 Sure video game dogs make for great meme material, but good boys have been serving since World War I.
Unmissable – Episode 8 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • June 5th, 2019 Game of Thrones is over, so let’s have Stu Horvath on to discuss it, even though he didn’t watch the show.
Let’s Talk to the Dead – The Fox Sisters and the Birth of American Spiritualism By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • June 4th, 2019 We have all played with a Ouija board, but few of us truly think we are contacting the dead.
Revving the Engine Hyper Jam By Stu Horvath • June 4th, 2019 Unwinnable talks to the folks behind the neon-soaked arena brawler Hyper Jam.
Another Look Dogs and Cities By Yussef Cole • June 4th, 2019 One very good boy navigates newfound sovereignty in the upcoming indie game Home Free.
Exploits Feature A Fable of Selfhood in the World of Tomorrow By Violet Adele Bloch • June 3rd, 2019 World of Tomorrow’s Emilies aren’t quite people . . . They’re one person split in two, and this blurs the line between Self and Other into nonexistence.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – May 2019 By Noah Springer • May 31st, 2019 May was an eclectic month for hip hop. All sorts of flavors here, but mostly: Lizzo!
This Mortal Coyle Catboy the Cat, and Other Familiars By Deirdre Coyle • May 31st, 2019 Deirdre lists some of the best cat (or cat-looking, at least) familiars in pop culture.
Pets Feature Responsible Petting By David Shimomura • May 30th, 2019 What could be stressful about running a Twitter account about petting virtual dogs? A lot, apparently.
The Children’s Crusade – Certainly Not Child’s Play By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • May 28th, 2019 What happens when tens of thousands of children decide to take on a Holy Crusade? Nothing good.
Lovecraft Country/Ghosts of Saltmarsh By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 27th, 2019 We’ve doubled the meat this podcast, taking on the Lovecraft Country sourcebooks for Call of Cthulhu and Ghosts of Saltmarsh for 5E Dungeons & Dragons.
The Usurper Noteworthy Metal – May 2019 By Astrid Budgor • May 24th, 2019 This month’s top contenders include two DBSM records because Astrid is a self-described predictable goth.
Five More From PAX East 2019 By Levi Rubeck • May 23rd, 2019 Cutting through my notes of PAX East 2019 (and earlier, gulp) to drop a few thoughts on small, punchy games coming forth hopefully soon.
Rookie of the Year Not. Today. By Matt Marrone • May 23rd, 2019 Fact: Arya Stark is the most badass character in the history of television.
Checkpoint Shadows Blunder Twice By Corey Milne • May 22nd, 2019 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice can be crushingly difficult, but still manages to be one of the funniest games Corey’s played in years.
Documentary Sunday Agnès Varda’s The Gleaners and I and Faces Places By Megan Condis • May 21st, 2019 The late French New Wave director’s documentary is a lot like the misshapen spuds it chronicles.
The Red Ghost of the Southwest By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • May 21st, 2019 This tale of demons in the night in the American Southwest has one hell of a twist, folks!
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – May 2019 – PETS! By Stu Horvath • May 16th, 2019 Made possible by our last subscription drive, the Pets Issue is here!
Fire in the Sky – The Story of the Halley’s Comet Panic of 1910 By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • May 14th, 2019 The comet is coming! The comet is coming!
Collision Detection How About a Refund? By Ben Sailer • May 14th, 2019 Google’s talked about how great Stadia is, but how will it win over the average (heavily skeptical) consumer?
Documentary Sunday The Cleaners By Megan Condis • May 13th, 2019 A new kind of custodial labor is working to keep your social media feeds free from trolls, hate groups and terrorist organizations.
Dungeon Masters Guide (plus Chaosium VP Michael O’Brien) By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 13th, 2019 In the latest episode, we talk about the Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection board game, we get philosophical about Gary Gygax’s Dungeon Masters Guide and we chat with Michael O’Brien, vice president of Chaosium.
Self-Insert A+ Parenting By Amanda Hudgins • May 12th, 2019 Fanfics dive into how one generation’s crappy fictional dad makes the next generation’s neurotic protagonist.
Rookie of the Year That Olivia Colman Look By Matt Marrone • May 11th, 2019 Unmissable: The Official Unwinnable Podcast forgot one important role in their chat about Olivia Colman: She’s the chick from Numberwang.
This Mortal Coyle The Abominable Snow Monster from SkiFree By Deirdre Coyle • May 10th, 2019 An adorable cryptid from Microsoft’s 1991 Entertainment Pack for Windows makes it onto Deidre’s friend’s list.