Issue 51: Casual Friday - Dreading the Shadows on the Wall

[The Escapist Staff]

Michael Zenke"Cthulhu still lives, too, I suppose, again in that chasm of stone which has shielded him since the sun was young. His accursed city is sunken once more ..." In Dreading the Shadows on the Wall, Michael Zenke examines the life and work of horror master, H.P. Lovecraft, and explains why even if you've never heard of him, you're probably already familiar with his work.

 

[The Escapist Staff]

Original Comment by: mattw

The lack of mention of the Tabletop Role Playing Game "Call of Cthulhu" is disheartening to say the least. It is not only a "game" in the proper sense of the word, but also where the rules/logic of the Dark Corners of the Earth comes from.

 

[The Escapist Staff]

Original Comment by: Adam Czech
http://www.crystalplains.net/
Ouch. This might be the most factually errent piece I've ever read in the magazine. Alone in the Dark's protagonist is Edward Carnby, not Carnaby; the forth-coming game in the franchise is a new game, not a remake of the original; "tele-fragging" in Quake is a multiplayer technique of standing in a spawn point, thus rendering it completely useless to defeat the final boss of the single-player game.

 

[Joe]

Adam, thanks for pointing those out. We're getting those corrections made, barring the telefragging comment. You actually had to kill Shub that way.

 

[The Escapist Staff]

Original Comment by: Shih Tzu
http://www.flammie.net/vse/
Anchorhead! You get a cookie.