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?
Feature Excerpt 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.
Feature Excerpt 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!
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.
The Best Games of 2019 By Team Unwinnable • December 31st, 2019 “…an explosive geyser of truly brilliant games…”
The McMaster Files The Mundane and the Sublime By Jason McMaster • December 6th, 2019 In Death Stranding, you can measure your progress by what you have built and contributed to the world.
Female Stereotypes Perfect for Hideo Kojima’s Games By Khee Hoon Chan • January 31st, 2017 Khee Hoon Chan suggests some “deep” character backstories that can help to “justify” Kojima’s next oversexualized female character.
Why is There All This MPreg in Death Stranding? By Amanda Hudgins • January 2nd, 2017 In Death Stranding, it’s not terribly hard to see the hints of one of fanfiction (and horrors) beloved tropes, that of male pregnancy.