Unwinnable

Here Be Monsters

The Unsettling Mindfulness of Horror

By Emma Kostopolus • August 2nd, 2023

To succeed in a survival horror experience, mindfulness is an incredibly helpful tool.

Exploits Feature

The Batman Problem

By Jeremy Greco • August 1st, 2023

In a game set in Gotham City, why would a player ever want to be anyone other than Batman?

Screenshot from Talk to Me, featuring the mummified medium's hand gracefully reaching out as if to be shaken with a lone candle in the background

I Don’t Get Nightmares: Scaring Yourself with Talk to Me (2023)

By Orrin Grey • July 31st, 2023

Talk to Me may be the most credible supernatural teen horror movie ever made, simply by dint of the way that the kids in the film turn the medium-istic hand into a party game, heedless of the larger questions it raises, or the possible consequences of their actions.

The Monster Overhaul

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 31st, 2023

Not just another monster book!

This Mortal Coyle

KJ from Life After Magic

By Deirdre Coyle • July 28th, 2023

“There’s a bunch of different subcultures under the punk and goth umbrellas. Doesn’t always have to be about wearing black and being angry.”

The cover art for Devil Daggers, with an extreme close up of a screaming skull with winding ram like horns on either side and even a couple more bony horns right by the face it's very spooky

Have You Danced with Devil Daggers in the Pale Moonlight?

By Hayes Geldmacher • July 27th, 2023

Devil Daggers is kind enough to let the song of my muscles take control, to flow over hard stone like cool water – to dance among the damned.

Run It Back

Detail of the Penguin Classics cover of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust, showing a bright graphic of orange, cream and blue zig-zagging lines and dots.

1934

By Oluwatayo Adewole • July 27th, 2023

In this case it seems dear reader, that the enemy of our enemy is not quite a friend – or at least they’re one who we shouldn’t invite to stay in our home.

a screenshot from The Primevals with a towering Yeti covered in fur in the mid shot, a tiny gaggle of humans behind, and three lizard people with medieval weapons at the front

Science and Sensation: A Blast from the Past Courtesy of The Primevals (2023)

By Orrin Grey • July 26th, 2023

The Primevals is pure pulp, hearkening back to the golden age of adventure stories.

Eyeing Elsewhere

A screenshot of Link striding across a grassy field in Tears of the Kingdom, several distinctive ruins and towers looming in the distance.

On Play in Tears of the Kingdom

By Phillip Russell • July 26th, 2023

In Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo has found a captivating approach to its play design by allowing players to approach challenges in a seemingly infinite number of ways.

A screenshot from the trailer for season 1 of Yellowjackets with a mysterious grouping of fur-clad people gathered around a fire and a skull

Yellowjackets and the Erotics of Eating your Friends

By Sara Khan • July 25th, 2023

Maybe we know who we are when we’re hungry, and we’re afraid of who we’d be if we weren’t.

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