Unwinnable

It is most certainly summer, so spend some time with friends and get in on the bull session with Unlistenable Episode 44!

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Ever wonder what it is like to cover E3 as a gaming journalist? Unwinnable went and filmed everything so you didn’t have to. (more…)

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First: Unwinnable columnist Chris Dahlen wrote Mark of the Ninja. Second: Chris asked me once, out of the blue, to bend my freelance librarian skills toward finding him some historical books on ninja. I thought it was weird (who wants to read about ninja that can’t, like, fly?), but, you know, it’s Dahlen. So I did. (more…)

I have a love/hate relationship with E3. On the one hand, it’s fun to see and try out new games I’m interested in or curious about and there are (usually) a few surprises coming out of the show that are worth at least a modicum of excitement. At the same time, E3 can be, and often is, obnoxiously bloated and corporate. The cynic in me sees it as a kaleidoscopic whirlwind of glitz and hype from all manner of peddlers in business suits, flanked by attractive women with ostentatious displays of tanks and dragons and sports cars all designed to get you to buy in to the same game you bought last year. (more…)

The week after E3 2011 must have been insufferable for everyone I knew back home. There I was, at the bar, at a D&D game, at a coffee shop, at the taco truck, going on about the just-announced Wii U – and I didn’t make a damn bit of sense. (more…)