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fromGameSpot
1 day ago

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Is Twisting French Legends Into Nightmare Bosses

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse returns to classic 2D action, set in 1499 Paris, featuring new enemies and gameplay elements.
Podcast
fromKotaku
1 day ago

Podcast Based On Horrors Of Lovecraft Is Your Next Obsession

The Lovecraft Investigations is a unique podcast blending true crime and Lovecraftian themes, recently launched its latest series, Crowley.
fromKotaku
1 week ago

Dimension 20 Is Finally Doing A Vampire: The Masquerade Campaign

Dimension 20 has primarily used Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition across its campaigns, with occasional side quests using other systems. The main cast has only deviated from D&D for the sixth campaign, A Starstruck Odyssey, which utilized an unofficial Star Wars system.
DC food
Writing
fromJezebel
1 week ago

The King of My Unrealized Mythical Erotica Dreams

Spring inspires imagination and exploration of fantasy erotica, highlighting the appeal of art that transcends traditional boundaries.
Television
fromInverse
3 weeks ago

Amazon's Most Underrated Fantasy Epic Is Getting A Surprising Second Life

Amazon Prime Video is expanding The Wheel of Time universe with new animated series, movies, and video games despite the show's cancellation after Season 3.
fromBoard Game Quest
3 weeks ago

Everbound Review

Everbound uses an 18-card construct to fill out the crew of a pirate ship. You start with your Captain and a twinkle in yer eye. And presumably a ship. Yarrrr. You'll take one of two actions per turn. Draw: Take a card from the Dock. Recruit: Play a card from your hand by paying its icon cost.
Board games
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Fear is good': my scary subterranean journey into Underland, the film of Robert Macfarlane's dazzling book

Filmmaker Robert Petit explores underground spaces through his documentary Underland, discovering that subterranean environments offer people freedom and existential transformation away from surface world constraints.
Video games
fromKotaku
4 weeks ago

Mythmatch Is An Anti-Capitalist RPG That Will Brighten Your Day

Mythmatch combines merger game mechanics with RPG elements in a premium, ad-free game featuring Greek mythology, anti-capitalism themes, and altruism without exploitative monetization practices.
Video games
fromKotaku
4 weeks ago

I Fell In Love With Highguard And Now It's Gone Forever - Kotaku

Highguard, a multiplayer shooter that shut down after three months, provided deeply enjoyable late-night gaming experiences despite initial bland impressions and negative community reception.
Books
fromJezebel
1 month ago

Sarah J. Maas Is My Fantasy Daddy

Sarah J. Maas is releasing two interconnected books in October 2026 and January 2027, designed to be read as one massive story, showcasing her commitment to her creative vision.
Board games
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Our Dark Lord Cthulhu Awakens In This Lovecraftian Adventure

The Dark Rites of Arkham is a point-and-click adventure game set in Lovecraft's fictional city of Arkham, where Detective Jack Foster investigates ritualistic murders linked to mystical cults and ancient gods.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Goodness Test: Dunk, Baelor, and Why Heroes Still Matter

For decades, we smallfolk have been told that goodness is naïve, that moral grayness is sophistication, and cynicism is cleverness. Turns out, we do not want it. Most of us can only take an endless string of villains, liars, and normalized nastiness for so long. Our battered nervous systems want a hero to root for who would not lie to us or betray us.
Miscellaneous
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

Why some of us build entire worlds inside our heads and then feel homesick for places that never existed - Silicon Canals

Elaborate inner worlds built through imagination are common cognitive features that fulfill emotional needs, characterized by specific details and consistent logic that can persist for decades.
History
fromMedievalists.net
1 month ago

New Medieval Books: Celtic Magic - Medievalists.net

Ancient and medieval Celtic-speaking peoples maintained distinctive magical beliefs and practices whose evidence appears in inscriptions, classical accounts, medieval manuscripts, charms, and medical recipes.
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Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Myth, monsters and making sense of a disenchanted world: why everyone is reading fantasy

Fantasy is a dominant, all-pervading cultural form offering diverse subgenres, serious artistic value, and lineages from varied creators and traditions.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

All About Love From a Black Medieval Angel

Looking to the Middle Ages for answers to the perennial puzzles of life can seem quaint, even artificial, a long reach across centuries marked by violence, hierarchy, and exclusion. And yet medieval culture offers a way of thinking about love that still speaks to the present. If love is most urgently tested in moments of strain and upheaval, then it is in those moments - where care is stressed or obscured - that its meaning comes most clearly into view.
Arts
Film
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

An undying trend: How vampires hold a mirror to society

Vampires in storytelling symbolize societal fears and reflect historical social and racial violence, as shown by a 1930s-set horror about community-targeted vampires.
Television
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

The 'Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' finale just blew up Dunk and Egg's biggest secrets

The season finale implies Dunk may have lied about his knighthood, introducing new scenes that reshape his identity and future with Egg.
fromMedievalists.net
2 months ago

New Medieval Books: A Demon Spirit - Medievalists.net

Abū Nuwās's poetry is sheer joy: it never fails to delight, surprise, and excite. His diwan, his collected poems, encompasses the principal early Abbasid poetic genres: panegyrics ( madīḥ), renunciant poems ( zuhdiyyāt), lampoons ( hijāʾ), hunting poems ( ṭardiyyāt), wine poems ( khamriyyāt), love poems ( ghazaliyyāt) to males ( mudhakkarāt) and females ( muʾannathāt), and transgressive verse ( mujūn).
History
Board games
fromBoard Game Quest
2 months ago

Fantasy Realms: Greek Legends Review

Fantasy Realms: Greek Legends is a fast, tactical 2–6-player card game with new artwork, a larger deck, afterlife mechanic, and strategic hand-optimization in 10–20 minutes.
Film
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

An undying trend: How vampires hold a mirror to society

The vampire figure personifies societal anxieties and mirrors social and racial violence, sustaining enduring cultural relevance across myth, literature, and film.
fromPolygon
8 months ago

New The Witcher board game follows the downfall of Geralt's school

The Witcher 4 won't arrive until at least 2027, but in the meantime, studio CD Project Red is working with Go On Board to create a new board game based on the hit series. A cooperative adventure game for one to four players, The Witcher: Legacy will focus on the events that led to the fall of the School of the Wolf. Players will take on the role of witchers seeking to unravel the conspiracy against their order, fighting monsters and exploring the kingdom of Kaedwen through a branching narrative featuring multiple scenarios.
Board games
fromUntapped New York
1 year ago

How Museum Artifacts in NYC Inspired a Novel About a Medieval Witch - Untapped New York

While working on a graduate school paper on the mystical powers of coral, gemologist Anna Rasche ventured deep into the archives of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum's library. Coral is the most powerful material to ward off the evil eye-a belief Italians have held since ancient times. Romans often gifted newborns coral amulets to prevent sickness and bad luck.
Books
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Baldur's Gate 3 Gets More Magic: The Gathering Cards

Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair drops Baldur's Gate 3 set Feb 9 with roughly 30 new cards, including five cards each for Gale and Shadowheart.
Television
fromEsquire
2 months ago

The Cosmere Series Is Heading to Apple TV. Is It the Next 'Game of Thrones'?

Apple TV acquired rights to Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere, with Sanderson writing and producing adaptations including Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive.
fromInverse
2 months ago

Who Is Aegon? 'Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms' Shocking Twist, Explained

At long last, the secret behind Egg has been revealed. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is now half over, but now viewers have learned the squire's true identity, something readers of the original Tales of Dunk and Egg books have known from the start. But what does this new secret mean for the future of the show - and the future of Westeros itself? The answer is a lot more complicated than you may think.
Television
fromConsequence
2 months ago

Why A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Uses the Game of Thrones Theme as a Punchline

"What was so beautifully done about House of the Dragon is this epic scale at which the story is told. So to have this big booming orchestral score was very important," Kingdoms showrunner Ira Parker says during a roundtable interview. However, for his series, "we realized early on that we're telling a small story here - a small story about a simple person who has smaller ambitions. And so, certainly our sound had to suit that."
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