Best of 2018 Best Tabletop Games We Played in 2018 By Team Unwinnable • December 26th, 2018 These are the tabletop games that spoke to us in 2018.
Bizarre Christmas Traditions Around the World By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • December 25th, 2018 There’s some weird ways to celebrate Christmas out there.
Sears Wish Books, 1982-84 By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 24th, 2018 Happy Holidays! This episode, the guys look at the Sears Wish Book catalogs that contained Dungeons & Dragons products.
You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: The Shark Attacks of 1916 By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • December 18th, 2018 **Jaws theme**
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – December 2018 By Stu Horvath • December 17th, 2018 Our final issue of the year is jam packed with thought provoking stories. Find out more here!
The Chest By Stu Horvath • December 14th, 2018 Unwinnable chats with Ferenc Vincze about his animated film The Chest, made using Unreal Engine 4.
The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans: Marie Laveau By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • December 11th, 2018 Like the Bobby Bare song says, “Down in Louisiana, where the black trees grow, lives a voodoo lady named Marie Laveau.”
Dragon Magazine By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 10th, 2018 The guys talk about Dragon Magazine, Khan of Khans and Stu’s now complete Planescape collection.
Self-Insert The Unsinkable Darcy Lewis By Amanda Hudgins • December 7th, 2018 A side character from Thor has almost 15,000 fanfics featuring her. Amanda Hudgins asks the question: Why does Darcy Lewis persist?
Another Look Writing About Games: Learning to Love the Compromise By Yussef Cole • December 6th, 2018 There is only so much compartmentalization you can do in separating a game from its production process and the worldview it espouses before you, as a writer, become morally compromised.
Memescape We Are All Gritty By Alyse Stanley • December 5th, 2018 Gritty: An obsession; a movement; a cult. Ultimately, though, he’s a googly-eyed reflection of this tumultuous time.
Backlog What Matters and What Matters Last By Gavin Craig • December 4th, 2018 It’s a difficult thing to write about videogames when one doesn’t play very many videogames.
Whose Head Is That Anyway? The Story of Easter Island By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • December 4th, 2018 Notorious Narratives plumbs the mysteries of the moai.
The Burnt Offering The Feels By Stu Horvath • December 3rd, 2018 What happens when a horror story tries to manifest in the real world?
The Heavy Pour Sucking Blood from the Earth By Sara Clemens • November 30th, 2018 Between the nightmare of daily news and the ethical quandaries of playing games by any triple-A developer, it’s hard to be assed to play games these days.
The Usurper Noteworthy Metal – November By Astrid Budgor • November 30th, 2018 Astrid’s on a K-pop kick right now, so you know this month’s metal has to be good if it pulled her away.
Here's the Thing No, Shut Up, Brutal Legend is Great By Rob Rich • November 29th, 2018 People loved to dump on Brutal Legend when it released, but Rob stubbornly maintains that it was (and still is) a great game.
Documentary Sunday Terrace House By Megan Condis • November 28th, 2018 Unlike on American reality television, at no point do any of the residents of Terrace House seem interested in ceasing to be polite and starting to get “real.”
Imprisoned in Paradise: The Leper Colony of Hawaii By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • November 27th, 2018 Notorious Narratives demystifies the Hawaiian leper colony at Kalaupapa.
Rookie of the Year Let’s Go Paisley By Matt Marrone • November 27th, 2018 Not everything about Paisley Park is weird.
Collision Detection DDR Movie Marks a Positive Step By Ben Sailer • November 26th, 2018 Why make a movie about Dance Dance Revolution? Maybe a better question to ask is, “Why would they make a movie about any other game at all?”
Holiday Gift Guide By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 26th, 2018 Thanksgiving is in the rear view, so Hambone and Stu put together a holiday gift guide for y’all.
Feature Excerpt Crack the Network: It’s Called Cyberpunk Not Cybersecurity By Liam Conlon • November 23rd, 2018 While disappointed by Cyberpunk 2077’s announcement to exclude a non-binary option, Conlon thinks it’s necessary to desire more than small kernels of representation.
Special Episode Robin’s Fun Facts: Thanksgiving Edition By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • November 22nd, 2018 Ever wonder why Americans eat the food they do on Thanksgiving? Notorious Narratives has the answers.
This Mortal Coyle The Encarta MindMaze Witch By Deirdre Coyle • November 21st, 2018 Hidden in Microsoft Encarta ’95 lies one of the foundational goths of Deirdre’s childhood.
Feature Excerpt Flash Forever By Phantom • November 21st, 2018 A history of the delightful weirdness of Flash games.
Strange Eats: The Story of the Buckland Family By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • November 20th, 2018 Turkey for Thanksgiving every year? Not if you’re trying to eat every animal on earth!
Stan: A Man By Ian Gonzales • November 16th, 2018 A writer, an editor, a collaborator, an ambassador, a hero, a villain and everything in between.
Unwinnable Monthly – November 2018 By Stu Horvath • November 15th, 2018 The new issue of Unwinnable Monthly is out! Read about inclusive cyberpunk, a history of Flash games and much, much more!
The London Beer Flood By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • November 14th, 2018 This week, we learn that there is no such thing as a good flood. Even a beer flood.
Protected: A Brief History of Dragons By Stu Horvath • November 14th, 2018 There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Collision Detection Rigged Games By Ben Sailer • November 14th, 2018 If politicians treat electioneering like a tactical war game that was built to be hacked, Gerrymander lays their tactics bare with adorably dystopian puzzles.
The McMaster Files RimWorld and the Iffy Prospect of Early Access By Jason McMaster • November 13th, 2018 RimWorld is one of the handful of games Jason considers to be the best of this decade, a game many people tried to create but failed – the Dwarf Fortress-like.
Middle Earth Role Playing By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 12th, 2018 Vintage RPG journeys to the Shire to check out Iron Crown Enterprise’s Middle Earth Roleplaying.
Checkpoint Wanderer By Corey Milne • November 12th, 2018 Corey Milne lives out his walking fantasies vicariously through videogames like Absolver.
Backlog Resolution State By Gavin Craig • November 9th, 2018 With most videogames having half-baked conclusions when they don’t continue on indefinitely, Gavin Craig asks: Can you even have a story without an ending?
Another Look The Snowman Gets the David Cage Treatment By Yussef Cole • November 8th, 2018 Paper-thin characterizations and women stripped of their power? Yep, sounds like a Cage game.
Rookie of the Year I’ve Joined the Blue Rose Task Force By Matt Marrone • November 7th, 2018 Matt Marrone has a Twin Peaks-related announcement to make.
Dark Horse: The Story of Candidate Yetta Bronstein By Jen Sisco and Robin Mazzolla • November 6th, 2018 On this Election Day, Notorious Narratives brings you the tale of the imaginary Jewish housewife who ran for president in 1964.