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Press F to Play “Respect”

By Jonathan Fenn • June 3rd, 2025

These songs also carry with them a wealth of cultural context.

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Ahti attends to his work while listening to his 80s-style headphones.

Solace and Play Within Games

By Alyssa Hatmaker • January 23rd, 2024

Sometimes being reminded that you’re playing a videogame is a welcome feeling.

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Sam Porter Bridges Redefines the Anti-Hero

By John Anderson • November 2nd, 2023

It is undeniable that most games center around violence in some shape, and due to the hours the average game takes to complete being well into the double-digits, the protagonist will have racked up quite a monstrous body count before the credits roll.

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Five soldiers in heavy gear and camouflage fatigues wade through what looks like a pool of fiery lava.

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?

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Death is Not the End

By Nicholas Straub • October 20th, 2020

The inhabitants of the Dark Souls universe seek a hero to rekindle the first flame, for without it, they believe, all life will cease. But they are wrong.

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Maternal Legacies

By Emma Kostopolus • July 30th, 2020

Death Stranding doesn’t erase motherhood: it is, in several important ways, defined by it.

Letter From the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly, July 2020

By Stu Horvath • July 17th, 2020

A red hot issue for a red hot month. Find out what’s inside!

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Archipelago America

By Jeremy Signor • March 25th, 2020

Video games give us a window into how the US is structured, how it isolates us, and how we can connect.

Another Look

Fantasies of Fatherhood

By Yussef Cole • March 13th, 2020

In Death Stranding, players get a chance to parent less a child than the idea of one.

Checkpoint

2020

By Corey Milne • January 11th, 2020

Corey offers a year-end roundup, some quickfire crit on 2019’s best games and a farewell.

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