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Nov 7, 2024 | 
unwinnable.com | Emma Kostopolus
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. ———We are what we’re afraid of. ———The novelist John Gardner once famously said that there are only two kinds of stories: a man goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town. In stories about suburbia, the plot almost always leans toward the latter.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
bulletpointsmonthly.com | Reid McCarter |Ed Smith |Emma Kostopolus |Yussef Cole
Still Too Long, and Not Linear Enough
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
unwinnable.com | Emma Kostopolus
This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #178. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. ———We are what we’re afraid of. ———A confession: For someone who’s supposed to be writing a monthly column on horror games, I haven’t been playing a ton of them lately.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
unwinnable.com | Emma Kostopolus
This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #177. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. ———We are what we’re afraid of. ———When I say “bad coworker,” we all have someone who immediately springs to mind.
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May 31, 2024 | 
unwinnable.com | Emma Kostopolus
This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #175. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. ———We are what we’re afraid of. ———When I was sixteen years old, my high school drama club did a secret Santa gift exchange at the end of our winter play run. I opened my package from my Santa to behold an egg-shaped keychain with a small screen and several buttons.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
unwinnable.com | Emma Kostopolus
This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #172. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. ———We are what we’re afraid of. ———Picture This: You’re a teenager, bored on a Friday night. You and your friends decide to go see whatever mid-budget horror film is playing at the movies that weekend. You get there, fully intending to exercise your adolescent bravado, because you are officially Too Cool to Be Scared.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
unwinnable.com | Emma Kostopolus
This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #171. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. ———We are what we’re afraid of. ———I’ve always been a massive Amnesia fan. From my first time playing The Dark Descent alone in my college dorm, I knew Frictional was really on to something. And the newest entry, Amnesia: The Bunker, is no exception.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
bulletpointsmonthly.com | Emma Kostopolus
When I first played The Order: 1886, I remember being incredibly frustrated with it. The cutscenes were interminably long exposition dumps punctuated by quick-time events that were seemingly random—sometimes low-stakes (pulling a lever) and sometimes incredibly high-stakes (resisting an attacker).
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
unwinnable.com | Emma Kostopolus
This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #170. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. ———We are what we’re afraid of. ———In Mark Z. Danielewski’s book House of Leaves, alongside constructing one of the most unsettling haunted houses I have ever had the pleasure of encountering, also introduced me to a philosophical horror concept that reframed the way I think about a lot of my spookier experiences.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
unwinnable.com | Emma Kostopolus
This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #168. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. ———We are what we’re afraid of.
