Funeral Rites ARC Turns Disaster Into a Fighting Chance By Emily Price • November 28th, 2023 While ARC is a TTRPG about the end of the world, it uses humor and warmth as often as horror to imagine what responding to the apocalypse actually looks like.
Good Books 2023, Part 2 By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 27th, 2023 Stu recommended books, but now it’s Hambone’s turn!
Chicago, the Ambiguous, and Ourselves By Zonghang Zhou • November 22nd, 2023 Beneath the veneer of a near-future dystopian technocracy, Watch Dogs is a bildungsroman of a man seeking redemption and salvation.
Feature Excerpt The Stories of Virtual Fragments By Clint Morrison Jr. • November 22nd, 2023 Modern games are littered with fragmented narratives, digital ephemera often left obscured or abstracted in their incompleteness.
Feature Story We Need to Talk About the Warrens By Orrin Grey • November 21st, 2023 There is plenty of evidence that the Warrens were hucksters who exploited vulnerable people for their own profit.
How Daniel Guermeur Changed Touch Typing Forever By Elijah Beahm • November 20th, 2023 Where other brands indulge in fancy effects or gimmicks, DasKeyboard has remained focused on the simple goals of efficiency, quality, and utility.
Russ Nicholson Interview (Remastered) By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 20th, 2023 Straight from the archives!
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – November 2023 By David Shimomura • November 17th, 2023 We’re not putting up the Christmas decorations yet.
Why Me? A Narrative Feature About Games Media Layoffs By Jess Reyes • November 16th, 2023 Everyone who was laid off was scheduled for a video meeting. If you had no video meeting, I guess you were safe. This is apparently considered the most “humane” way to lay someone off…
Friction Burns Never to Return By Ruth Cassidy • November 15th, 2023 It feels like knowing Pyre’s secrets should remove its surface tensions, but a risk you know how to calculate just makes the gambles feel larger.