Unwinnable

A screen shot from the first Grand Theft Auto, with the main character making a phone call and the train tracks wait behind. I'm going to be honest it was hard finding a shot or video of anyone going on to the tracks, given how deadly they are, but this seemed pretty close

Gouranga

By Edward Smith • October 11th, 2022

I hate this idea that games have gotten so big they basically replace your life – and tell you you’re not getting the most out of them and doing everything unless you let them replace your life.

Casting Deep Meteo

The protagonist of the videogame Severed Steel holds two pistols akimbo as she crouches down low, ready for all takers.

The Fresh and Vertical

By Levi Rubeck • October 11th, 2022

Lately Levi’s been picking through Severed Steel, a title still honing in on the parkour and the shooting but sidestepping long set pieces for a series of puzzle rooms and time dilation.

Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 10th, 2022

A very serious educational course on the medieval period, not an RPG.

2022 Unwinnable
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Week One: Transgressive Terrors

By Team Unwinnable • October 9th, 2022

Welcome to the Spoopy Season!

Another Look

End of Zelda

By Yussef Cole • October 7th, 2022

Perhaps in Hyrule, which was apparently inspired by the local woodlands of its designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, we could grasp some of that same fantasy, that escape.

Rookie of the Year

In a still from the television show Madam Secretary, the title character sits at a desk in a Washington D.C. office, wearing a slightly exasperated smile.

Living the American Stream

By Matt Marrone • October 6th, 2022

America is beautiful – at least at night, without checking social media, as it streams on Netflix.

Made of Lines and Vines

Screenshot from the game Outriders, featuring a bright partially overcast sky behind adobe towers, weathered and with exposed knobs of wood

Beneath a Village’s Surface

By Saniya Ahmed • October 5th, 2022

A distinct style of a building in Outriders led to curiosity, then unexpectedly unraveled a worrisome story that was brewing all along.

Interlinked

Acquiring Phantomilian

By Phoenix Simms • October 5th, 2022

Games have their own form of communication and language and, in some instances, they include constructed languages, or conlangs, that are foreign to their players too.

Transpersonal

Still from the title sequence for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, with an assortment of symbols and shapes in the background and a man in a flashy suit and cadet hat, hands in pockets on the left, a very similar looking man with a big lip of hair on his brow in the middle, and a youger person in a school or military uniform on the right

How to Take a Stand // Transpersonal Defiance in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable

By Aster Shen • October 4th, 2022

Koichi goes to his death without despair, because he believes that justice will be done. He connects to the idea that what he represents cannot meaningfully be ‘erased’ at all: the heart of justice that defies the existence of Yoshikage Kira.

Mind Palaces

A still of Tom Hanks smirking sleazily as Colonel Tom Parker in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis.

Evil as Can Be

By Maddi Chilton • October 4th, 2022

The idea that Elvis would have been happy and healthy and long-lived if only were it not for his life-long manager Colonel Tom Parker is ahistorical.

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