Lovecraft
'The Sinking City' Developer Doesn't Want You to Buy Their Game on Steam
An legal battle over the control of the Lovecraft game has gotten stranger, with the studio advocating against buying the game on Steam.
How Tabletop RPGs Are Being Reclaimed From Bigots and Jerks
New rulebooks and designers' notes are making horror RPGs a more inclusive and healthy hobby.
'The Sinking City' Uses Lovecraft's Racism as Raw Material for a Messy Game
The new detective game from the team behind the Sherlock Holmes series is full of hard choices and complicated morality.
How Should We Deal with Lovecraft’s Influence in Games?
H.P. Lovecraft was a virulent racist, so how should we look at games like the recent ‘Call of Cthulhu?’
'Call of Cthulhu' Is the Rare Bad Game That's Probably Still Worth Playing
It has no interest in challenging or engaging Lovecraft's racist worldview, and mechanically it's all over the place, but there's enough interesting pieces here to make the journey worthwhile.
Two Games, Two Radically Different Approaches to Adapting Lovecraft
'The Sinking City' and 'Call of Cthulhu' take similar inspirations, but serve different fantasies.
How '2001: A Space Odyssey' Anticipated the Rise of the Ancient Aliens Meme
1968 was a landmark year for chalking up all the cool stuff ancient peoples did to extraterrestrial encounters.
Listen to Billy Joel's "Piano Man" Remade as a Cthulhu-Summoning Anthem
Someone set an H.P. Lovecraft poem to the karaoke classic, and the results have driven us beyond the realms of madness.
Why Players Always Return to Games About Baker Street and Jack the Ripper
How the Victorian Era endures as the classic setting for mystery and murder.
Starr Creek
This dark piece of fiction is the perfect blast of backwater Lovecraftian lore for our Trumptastic moment.
The Cult 80s Horror Movie That Foretold Our Augmented Future
The 'From Beyond' screenwriter tells us why the goofy, sexy, sci-fi movie is still fresh 30 years later.