Feature Excerpt Hell is Other Shooters By Andrei Filote • February 22nd, 2022 If we organize our play to prepare for the demands of later life, then is it possible to create a new set of values simply by the games that we choose to play?
The Reckless Gender Politics of Call of Duty: Warzone By Porter Simmons • July 1st, 2020 Warzone resurrects the Gulag.
Musings Legacy of Brutality By Blake Hester • June 12th, 2020 You know what they say: Friends that kill together, stay together.
Collision Detection There’s No Such Thing as a Neutral War Story By Ben Sailer • January 14th, 2020 Like literally every other piece of media, videogames don’t exist in a vacuum.
Feature Excerpt What Makes a Game Trash? By Van Dennis • August 22nd, 2019 While it’s easy for a game to fall into being trashy, it takes a bit of lucky circumstance for a game to be fully trash.
Stalingrad was Call of Duty’s Perfect Moment By Matthew Byrd • May 11th, 2017 It’s always strange to praise such things, but the brilliance of Call of Duty’s take on the Battle of Stalingrad is that it felt decidedly unlike a video game.
Coming Back to Call of Duty By AJ Moser • September 16th, 2016 What it’s like to return to the battlefield after so much time away.
Call of Dewty: How We Eat Games By Andrea Ayres • June 7th, 2016 Andrea Ayres digs deep into how food and marketing direct our actions, and how we consume games.
Food Issue – Thoughts Recap Part 2 of 3 By Andrea Ayres, AJ Moser and Rob Rich • June 6th, 2016 Just how do we eat our games, train attack owls and get so bored with Dark Souls II? Unwinnable has all the answers.
The Japan Issue – Thoughts Recap By Team Unwinnable • February 22nd, 2016 Our regular columnists remains as eclectic as ever in the February issue, covering everything from The Muppets to the 2016 presidential campaign trail.
Ghost in the Machine: Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 By James Murff • November 13th, 2015 “Black Ops 3 barely feels like a Call of Duty game at all, and that’s something really special.”
Stop and Smell the Roses By Edward Smith • August 26th, 2013 Ed Smith enjoys a little R&R in videogames.
The Little Things By Mitchell Bowman • June 4th, 2013 Mitchell Bowman finds a gem amid some increasingly tiresome first-person shooters: Earth Defense Force 2017.
Pellet Tracers By Michael Rousseau • December 13th, 2012 Michael Rousseau plays paintball and the FPS is never the same again.
HaloSibs By Richard Clark • November 28th, 2012 Richard Clark wants to go to the mutliplayer where everyone knows his name.
To the Games I Will Never Finish: A Love Letter By Cara Ellison • November 19th, 2012 Cara Ellison tries to unravel the painful, tangled thread connecting her romantic relationships and videogames.
The Videogame Criticism You Don’t See By Marjorie Jensen • September 13th, 2012 Marjorie Jensen has kept videogames at arm’s length because even though violence isn’t contagious, it isn’t appealing either.
Of Men and Monsters – A Look at Historical/Fictional Mash-Ups By Kenneth J. Lucas • March 1st, 2012 Ken Lucas takes a look at historical figures who are zombie killers, vampire hunters and demon slayers.
Don’t Buy Videogames On Black Friday By Gus Mastrapa • November 25th, 2011 Gus Mastrapa opts out of Black Friday. You should, too.
The Future History of Games Journalism By Gus Mastrapa • November 4th, 2011 The future of videogame journalism begins now – Gus Mastrapa reports from the future.
Unlistenable Episode 13 – Cutting Room Floor By Team Unwinnable • May 15th, 2011 Uniwnnable presents: Unlistenable Episode 8: Tales from the Cutting Room Floor!
Dr. Strangenoob (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate the Online FPS) By Don Becker • March 10th, 2011 Don isn’t very good at FPS games and it hurts his enjoyment of any first person shooter game
Activision Uber Alles By Stu Horvath • June 15th, 2010 Stu Horvath infiltrates the Activision preview event at E3