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4 weeks ago | 
unwinnable.com | Autumn Wright
This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #185. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. ———The art of games criticism. ———Grace Benfell is a writer based in Chicago. She is the author of Killing Our Gods, out later this year, and the co-editor of TIER, a journal for criticism on obscure games.
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1 month ago | 
digitaltrends.com | Autumn Wright
When you take away all the traffic, cities are silent. Refreshingly so, at first, but after the change settles this quiet becomes maddening. The echo and reverberation magnify every little movement. It’s out in nature, amid the ambient hum of insect and bird song, running river and crackling bark, the wind rustling millions of leaves and whistling through each individual blade of grass, that I find solitude in a quiet that conceals the tinnitus and eases my shoulders.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Autumn Wright
The Best Leica Cameras Under $1500 to Purchase TodayWell, the headline says it all. Leica is one of the most expensive camera brands in the world because owning a Leica is like signing up for a …
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1 month ago | 
unwinnable.com | Autumn Wright
This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #184. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. ———The art of games criticism. ———Nic Reuben is a writer from Wales currently staffed at Rock Paper Shotgun. His recent review of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth impressed me with its imagery and stream of consciousness, which we discuss the inspirations of below.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
unwinnable.com | Autumn Wright
This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #183. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. ———Peripatetic. Orientation. Discourse. ———This season we’ve etnered, a season of haunting, when fire and snow are no longer opposite.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
pcgamer.com | Autumn Wright
She put the fucking dog down. Tied it to a tree, aimed the gun, dug a grave. Sorry, spoilers. Park ranger Eve killed the coyote pup she'd adopted outside her cabin in Yosemite (despite her better judgment) because it was cute and hadn’t hurt anyone the way so many two-legged abominations keep vandalizing the parks.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
avclub.com | Autumn Wright
Anime filmmaker Naoko Yamada thinks of herself as a cameraman. “I don’t think of it like anime is made by drawings,” she tells The A.V. Club. “But actual people and actual backgrounds.” Whether a genki girl learning guitar or a bullied deaf child contemplating suicide, Yamada’s characters resonate with young audiences around the world.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
unwinnable.com | Autumn Wright
This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #180. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. ———Peripatetic. Orientation. Discourse. ———“I think now that the suburbs were a kind of tranquilizer for the generation before us, if topography can be a drug.” – Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting LostNot what, but where is over the garden wall? In the west, in the past.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
wegotthiscovered.com | Autumn Wright
Free! has everything you could want in an anime: boys, the power of friendship, and swimsuits. Kyoto Animation and Animation Do’s adaptations of Kōji Ōji’s High Speed! light novels have been a staple of sports anime over the past decade. Free! has resonated with fans the world over, who have devoured three TV seasons and seven theatrical films across nine years. Release order is the way to go here, although you will probably want to skip the recap films.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
wegotthiscovered.com | Autumn Wright
Neon Genesis Evangelion left an indelible mark on anime. And whether you first watched the classic mecha on a fan-subbed VHS or Netflix’s streaming release, it likely left an impression on you as well. Character designs and genre conventions aren’t the only way the Evangelion is remembered, though. Below are lines from some of the most exciting and memorable moments from the series. The introduction of Unit 1 to Shinji and the audience is a defining moment in each of our lives.
