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.
Talking Splats: An Interview About Insect in Films By Stephen Wilds • September 25th, 2020 Ahhhh! BUGS! Unwinnable talks to the BugDoctor about everything that creeps and crawls through pop culture.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.”
You Should Not Get Your Sexual Education from Fanfiction. By Ailuridae • September 7th, 2020 The headline says it all.
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.
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.
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.
Forms in Light Billboard Architecture By Justin Reeve • August 13th, 2020 What Sega has to say about kanbankenchiku, literally translated as “billboard architecture,” in Yakuza 0 is that all of the bright lights and flashy colors might be more meaningful than first meets the eye.
The Fail Cycle I Hope You Hate This By Declan Taggart • August 10th, 2020 This story about the Norse god Thor underlines precisely why no one should be worshipping Vikings anymore.
Self Insert Quarantine Fics By Amanda Hudgins • August 10th, 2020 When the entire world is on lockdown, even alternate universes start hitting closer to home.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – July 2020 By Noah Springer • August 7th, 2020 These are some revolutionary times we’re living in, so this month, Noahs dives into a few albums that match that vibe.
BoJack, Grief and Remixes in the TikTok Age By Joseph Ehrenkranz • August 6th, 2020 There is no other side. This is it.
Feature Excerpt Maternal Legacies By Emma Kostopolus • July 30th, 2020 Death Stranding doesn’t erase motherhood: it is, in several important ways, defined by it.
Feature Excerpt Being Alone By Alma Roda-Gil • July 30th, 2020 When talking about the problems with Firewatch’s ending, general consensus is that it invalidates the events of the game – but that’s looking at it backward.
The Heavy Pour Journal of a Plague Spring By Sara Clemens • July 15th, 2020 The world’s on fire, might as well write.
Collision Detection Between Progress and Pragmatism in Democratic Socialism Simulator By Ben Sailer • July 9th, 2020 This game offers an opportunity to explore the policy possibilities of a progressive presidency in America. But underneath its colorful cartoon aesthetic lies a surprising degree of subversive power.
The Fail Cycle What Do We Owe a Viking? By Declan Taggart • July 9th, 2020 Sometimes there are good reasons for memorializing people, but Vikings are long enough dead that we shouldn’t feel the need to hold any more funerals for them.
Self Insert No Beta We Die Like Men By Amanda Hudgins • July 8th, 2020 Readers never know what they’re going to get with this tag. It may be a warning, but it’s not always deserved.
Feature Excerpt Digital Phantasmagoria By Phantom • July 6th, 2020 On the art of DataErase – glitch witch, anime porn historian and DIP switch devil.
The Beat Box Music for the Revolution By Noah Springer • June 18th, 2020 Noah highlights some new hip hop albums well suited for our moment in history.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – June 2020 By Stu Horvath • June 17th, 2020 Hey, Unwinnable is ten years old!
Rookie of the Year The Sleepover By Matt Marrone • June 11th, 2020 A 4-year-old’s request makes the insanity of the world fade for a bit.
Forms in Light Architecture of the Pharaohs By Justin Reeve • June 10th, 2020 An introduction to the structures of Egypt’s Pharaonic Period by way of Assassin’s Creed: Origins.
This Mortal Coyle Gerry from Graveyard Keeper By Deirdre Coyle • June 8th, 2020 I mean, really now, who hasn’t wanted to be friends with a talking, alcoholic skull?
Feature Excerpt Still Fallen: The Delicious, Open World Mystique of Fallen London By Khee Hoon Chan • June 5th, 2020 Failbetter Games’ impeccable prose has kept this browser game alive for a decade now.
Bloodlines Corona Standard Time By David Shimomura • June 1st, 2020 Time isn’t even a flat circle anymore.
Community Will Always Grow By Anthony McGlynn • May 21st, 2020 “People hate the steel sky, the slums…but I don’t. How could I? All that passion, all those dreams, flowing and blending together into something greater…”
Forms in Light Japan Style Architecture By Justin Reeve • May 13th, 2020 The structures in Sekiro were clearly created by people with a passion for traditional architecture
Here's the Thing The Weird and Disturbing World of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends By Rob Rich • May 12th, 2020 Rob remembers one of his favorite cartoon shows, about a foster home for imaginary friends, and realizes that it’s kiiiiiiiiiinda disturbing when thinking about the details.
The Fail Cycle Gotta Bro Fast By Declan Taggart • May 11th, 2020 Declan gets a taste of speedrunning at the cost of his laptop.