Rookie of the Year I Fought the PAW and the PAW Won By Matt Marrone • February 5th, 2018 With Twin Peaks over, Matt Marrone turns his obsessive TV watching mind to…PAW Patrol?
The Space of Water By David Shimomura • February 5th, 2018 All together the spaces in The Shape of Water feel not just believable but contribute Michael-Stuhlbarg-levels-of-performance.
The McMaster Files Through the Ages By Jason McMaster • February 1st, 2018 Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization is a wonderful game Jason McMaster never wants to play again.
Checkpoint Through Vietnamese Eyes By Corey Milne • January 31st, 2018 No matter the war, games are all too willing to provide a path to some imagined glory.
Last Week's Comics Last Week’s Comics 1/31/2018 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • January 31st, 2018 Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on Kingdom of Skulls # 1 and Doomsday Clock # 3.
Getting Tight with my Bros from Insomnia By Levi Rubeck • January 31st, 2018 Eventually we meandered on separate paths, and while I still keep in contact with a couple, most have drifted away or explicitly cut themselves off from their teenage buddies, going incognito and evaporating out into the world.
Feature Excerpt Social Media Life Crisis By Denis Farr • January 30th, 2018 On social media, videogames and the Self.
Revving the Engine The Siege and the Sandfox By Stu Horvath • January 26th, 2018 We talk to Olly Bennett of Cardboard Sword about their upcoming 2D stealth game The Siege and the Sandfox.
Blaming the Unchecked Algorithm By Levi Rubeck • January 25th, 2018 Nihei synthesizes the aesthetics of precision manufacturing with a cellular improvisation, crafting the humans and the silicon life out of the same inky molecules.
Last Week's Comics Last Week’s Comics 1/24/2018 By Sara Clemens and Michael Edwards • January 24th, 2018 Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on Vinegar Teeth # 1 and X-Men: Grand Design # 1 and 2.
Feature Excerpt A Tale of Two Worlds By Yussef Cole • January 24th, 2018 The more perfect the theme park, the larger its landfills.
Gorogoa, a Lesson in Learning By David Shimomura • January 22nd, 2018 Stu might think that Gorogoa is magick but I’d say that it’s language.
Gingy's Corner Final Theosis is a Sin By Gingy Gibson • January 19th, 2018 Final Theosis is a VN that sets out to prove that hell purgatory is other people; specifically, the devs of this VN.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – January 2018 By Stu Horvath • January 18th, 2018 We start the new year with a new issue packed with goodness. Stu gives you the rundown and hints at some stuff coming soon in Unwinnable’s future.
Last Week's Comics Last Week’s Comics 1/17/2018 By Ian Gonzales, David Shimomura and Sal Lucci • January 17th, 2018 Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on Batman: Creature of the Night #2, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero # 246 & 247 and James Bond: The Body # 1.
The Tentacled Spirit of Yharnam, in Card Stock By Levi Rubeck • January 16th, 2018 The pitch void and tentacled spirit of Yharnam has come to your table, in a much more accessible package of thick board stock and gory ink, as Bloodborne: The Card Game.
Feature Excerpt Lasagna Cat and the Internet We Lost By David Wolinsky • January 16th, 2018 David Wolinsky talks to Jeffrey Max and Zach Johnson – collectively known as Fatal Frame – about the return of Lasagna Cat and the internet we used to have.
Documentary Sunday Living Dolls By Megan Condis • January 15th, 2018 Despite their creepiness, Meg Condis discovers that dolls hold an incredible sway over some collectors.
Checkpoint Saved State By Corey Milne • January 15th, 2018 Corey Milne looks at how Neir: Automata‘s adversarial save system is a function of the game’s narrative.
Gingy's Corner A Culinary School Sim, with Dating Elements By Gingy Gibson • January 12th, 2018 Let’s start our month of regret with Pastry Lovers, the world’s premiere broken English baking otome.
Last Week's Comics Last Week’s Comics 1/10/2018 By Sara Clemens, Michael Edwards and Ian Gonzales • January 10th, 2018 Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on this week’s BSG Vs BSG # 1, Koshchei The Deathless # 1 and last week’s Paper Girls # 19.
Eat the Rich and Dance By Levi Rubeck • January 9th, 2018 What better way to roll out 2018 than immediately accounting for what one may have missed in 2017.
The Heavy Pour Let It Snow By Sara Clemens • January 4th, 2018 Suddenly memory merges with the present and I break away from the slow lane to run at full speed in the middle of the path.
The McMaster Files Gloomhaven By Jason McMaster • January 3rd, 2018 I can’t wait to get back to Gloomhaven.
Rookie of the Year Music Loves, Too By Matt Marrone • December 29th, 2017 You’d think for Twin Peaks super fan Matt Marrone, the soundtrack to the third season would be a shoo-in for his favorite album of the year, but that isn’t the case.
Backlog To Hell With 2017, Bring On 2018 By Gavin Craig • December 28th, 2017 Gavin has a dozen or so wishes for the new year. Or more.
Revving the Engine SculptrVR By Stu Horvath • December 27th, 2017 Stu talks to Nathan Rowe about SculptVR, a virtual reality tool that allows users to create, and destroy, whole worlds.
List-O-Mania – December 2017 By Team Unwinnable • December 26th, 2017 All the stuff that filled Team Unwinnable’s free time this month – now with TV and Movie categories!
Another Look Dujanah By Yussef Cole • December 22nd, 2017 There’s a responsibility that comes with using the art, language and symbolism of another culture.
Feature Excerpt A Most Curious Black Hole By Maxwell Neely-Cohen • December 21st, 2017 Is Crusader Kings II a strategy game? A simulation of history? A storytelling engine? Maxwell Neely-Cohen dives into the black hole to find out.
Feature Excerpt Localize It! By Jun Wilkinson • December 20th, 2017 Earthbound is a masterpiece of localization. How did they do it?
Last Week's Comics Last Week’s Comics 12/20/2017 By Sara Clemens and Michael Edwards • December 20th, 2017 Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on The Wicked + The Divine: Christmas Annual and the new classic, Runaways: The Complete Collection Volume 1.
Cardboard Fallout is Worth its Weight in Caps By Levi Rubeck • December 19th, 2017 These days I think about the collapse of civilization quite a lot, but this version of Fallout carries the series’s radioactive torch of wasteland fun.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – December 2017 By Stu Horvath • December 18th, 2017 Stu’s got the list of who has been naughty and nice in the December issue of Unwinnable Monthly! (spoiler: everyone is nice and so are all this month’s stories)
An Exercise in Being Prey By David Shimomura • December 18th, 2017 They Are Billions is a game about becoming a bigger, fatter, juicer piece of meat and being surrounded by starving hordes.
Last Week’s Comics 12/13/2017 By Sal Lucci and Sara Clemens • December 13th, 2017 Team Unwinnable shares their thoughts on the latest issues of Paper Girls and Batman: Creature of the Night.
This Mortal Coyle Farkas By Deirdre Coyle • December 13th, 2017 Deirdre Coyle carries the full weight of her marriage to Farkas, the lycanthropic warrior from Skyrim. Or not, actually.
Three Billboards and the Farce of American Society By Levi Rubeck • December 12th, 2017 Her sushi-knife-sharp rebuttal to moral authority was exactly what I wanted and, upon receipt, I was sure her victory could not last.
Commentary Destiny 2: The Big Empty By David Shimomura • December 11th, 2017 Destiny is a world completely devoid of the things that make a world worth playing in.
Gingy's Corner Mutiny!! is Exceptionally Bad Futanari Pirate Porn By Gingy Gibson • December 8th, 2017 I firmly set the bar of my expectations on the ground and was still disappointed by Mutiny!!