This week’s roleplaying game news, reviews, interviews, bundle offers, and advice.
Housing Complex C: Toonami trail their horror anime
Housing Complex C is an anime from Japan, where it was made by the studio Akatsuki, being piped straight to Toonami. It’s due out on October 2nd, then straight to HBO Max the day after.
Raiders of R’lyeh: From the Tideless Sea – d100 sandbox horror
Quentin Bauer, a writer and illustrator, has two weeks left on the Kickstarter clock for a project called Raiders of R’lyeh: From the Tideless Sea.
A look inside: Vampire Cinema – The First One Hundred Years
Cultural historian Christopher Frayling digs into our fixation with vampires. The book explores the bloodsuckers in all forms, looking at what’s been portrayed in the last 100 years.
Never Going Home RPG deal: The all-new horrors of the occult war
Wet Ink Games have their World War Occult RPG up as a quick deal on the Bundle of Holding.
Dark Gathering is a horror anime spawned from manga due next year
Kenichi Kondo’s Dark Gathering is getting the anime treatment. The director will be the talented Tonikawa: Over the Moon For You showrunner Hiroshi Ikehata and it’ll be made at studio OLM, who have done Summer Time Rendering and Oddtaxi.
HeXXen 1733 English language RPG teased by Ulisses Spiele
While the game may be set in the past, the design sensibilities of HeXXen 1733 are very much in the now.
Fright Night Classics RPG enlists Industrial Light & Magic artist Frank Ordaz
Yeti Spaghetti and Friends is a new publishing vehicle from professor Richard Ravalli. It’s also a great name.
“MadMen” from Ukraine get their 3-in-1 horror Kickstarter live
The project is a set of Steam-powered horror games, called EsterVilli, all bundled into one, and money goes to help the war effort. It’ll last for 10 days because, after that, these brave designers don’t know what will happen.
You’re good at killing: Rowan, Rook and Decard seek monster hunters for the Hollows RPG
The publisher of Spire, Heart, Royal Blood and other games like Unbound has been working on another RPG called Hollows, and they’ve worked on it for years.
