Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – November 2021 By David Shimomura • November 15th, 2021 Our November issue is here but also NEW COLUMNIST ALERT!
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – October 2021 By David Shimomura • October 18th, 2021 Welcome to the Spoopy Issue!
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – September 2021 By David Shimomura • September 17th, 2021 Do you remember? The 143rd issue this September!
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – August 2021 By David Shimomura • August 16th, 2021 One more trip to the Wasteland, and other stories, in Issue 142.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – July 2021 By David Shimomura • July 15th, 2021 It’s getting hot in here. In the July issue and on Earth.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – June 2021 By David Shimomura • June 15th, 2021 The June issue is here, let David show you around…
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – May 2021 By David Shimomura • May 17th, 2021 Back to a single Letter from the Editor. The one true letter.
Letters from the Editors Unwinnable Monthly, April 2021 By David Shimomura and Stu Horvath • April 15th, 2021 Big doings on the party boat this month! Oh, and all the normal magazine stuff too!
Bloodlines Empire of Sin: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Jank By David Shimomura • January 18th, 2021 Who needs perfection?
Bloodlines Destiny 2: Season of Forgiveness By David Shimomura • January 13th, 2021 Destiny 2 asks you to move on. No amount of levelling or experience will help you do that.
Revving the Engine Adios: Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long By Stu Horvath and David Shimomura • December 18th, 2020 Unwinnable talks to Doc Burford about his forthcoming game Adios, a melancholy game about a pig farmer who won’t dispose of the mob’s bodies any more.
Bloodlines Specter of Aesthetic Play By David Shimomura • September 2nd, 2020 Ghost of Tsushima is a love-sick letter to the tone and feel of pop culture samurai media.
The Best Star Wars Show is a Weird Game Show By David Shimomura • July 20th, 2020 In truth, there’s almost nothing original in Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge outside of the “dark side.” The show really is just Legends of the Hidden Temple with a veneer from a galaxy far, far away.
Bloodlines Suspending the Drop By David Shimomura • July 6th, 2020 Let the beat build and build forever.
Bloodlines A Long Time Ago: A Star Wars Story By David Shimomura • June 29th, 2020 Being a lightsaber duelist isn’t like riding a bike.
Bloodlines The Long, Slow Process of Animal Crossing By David Shimomura • June 22nd, 2020 Plodding on and on.
Bloodlines Plucking at the Web By David Shimomura • June 15th, 2020 Break out the cork board and red string in A Hand With Many Fingers.
Bloodlines We’re Not Alone in the Shadows By David Shimomura • June 8th, 2020 Horror director David Sandberg returns to his short film roots to tap pandemic anxieties.
Bloodlines Corona Standard Time By David Shimomura • June 1st, 2020 Time isn’t even a flat circle anymore.
Bloodlines Evil Genius is a Rotting Colossus By David Shimomura • May 25th, 2020 Let old things die, kill them if you have to.
Loading the Potato: A Song of Doom, Eternal By David Shimomura • March 31st, 2020 Certainly, Doom Eternal is bigger, louder, badder and more filled with gore than its predecessor.
Episode 17: Tiny Islands, Watchmen By David Shimomura and Sara Clemens • December 4th, 2019 Double episode today: David and Sara dig into the new videogame Tiny Islands and the Watchmen TV series.
Episode 16: Joker By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • October 23rd, 2019 On tap: Joker, Paul Reubens and a bad version of Phantom of the Opera.
Episode 15: Control By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • September 12th, 2019 The gang gets in Control for this episode of Unmissable!
Episode 14: The Terror By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • August 28th, 2019 It’s back to television this week as David and Sara discuss The Terror on Unmissable!
Episode 13: Blackout Club By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • August 14th, 2019 Come for the Stranger Things comparisons, stay for the harrowing tales of sins Unwinnablers committed!
Episode 12: Midsommar By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • August 3rd, 2019 It’s all about horror in the daylight and getting eaten by bears on this episode of Unmissable as the gang brings back Yussef Cole to talk Midsommar!
Episode 11 – Stranger Things By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • July 18th, 2019 Stranger Things are afoot as Sara and David talk about the third season of Netflix’s popular 80s pastiche
Episode 10 – Black Mirror By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • July 4th, 2019 Topher Grace’s best performance, Miley + Nine Inch Nails 5ever and, uh, would VR sex even actually work?
Episode 9 – Mass Effect By Sara Clemens, David Shimomura and Gavin Craig • June 19th, 2019 Gavin Craig joins the gang to talk about all things Mass Effect!
Unmissable – Episode 8 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • June 5th, 2019 Game of Thrones is over, so let’s have Stu Horvath on to discuss it, even though he didn’t watch the show.
Pets Feature Responsible Petting By David Shimomura • May 30th, 2019 What could be stressful about running a Twitter account about petting virtual dogs? A lot, apparently.
Unmissable – Episode 6 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • April 25th, 2019 Part 2 of our Jordan Peele mega-episode sees Yussef Cole and Davis Cox join the conversation.
Unmissable: Episode 5 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • April 15th, 2019 It’s part one of a Jordan Peele double header!
Unmissable: Episode 4 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • March 28th, 2019 It’s all about games on this week’s episode of Unmissable!
Unmissable: Episode 3 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • March 13th, 2019 Yussef Cole sits in to discuss The Favourite, Sunshine vs. Event Horizon, Destiny and more!
Far Cry: New Dawn’s Only Compelling Feature is Blowing Things Up with Stu By David Shimomura • March 6th, 2019 None of Far Cry: New Dawn feels like it’s meant to be experienced with another person. It’s especially not meant to be experienced with someone who is a decidedly chaotic force such as myself.
Unmissable: Episode 2 By Sara Clemens and David Shimomura • February 28th, 2019 Hey, it’s our second episode! Yussef Cole pulls up a chair.
The Might of Keiki Kobayashi’s Ace Combat 7 Soundtrack By David Shimomura • February 19th, 2019 Keiki Kobayashi might not be Hans Zimmer but in terms of effect achieved he’s damn close.