Lock-on 006
[lock-on] Vol. 006, the newest instalment of Lost In Cult’s gaming journal, is the biggest yet. Featuring over 400 pages of long-form essays, custom artwork, and concept galleries, this is the ultimate tribute to the past, present, and future of games culture.
Traverse Gaia and Hyrule alike as we journey through the worlds of Final Fantasy and The Legend of Zelda, their histories illuminated by those instrumental in giving them life. Slip through the fingers of reality as we explore the surrealist worlds of Oxenfree and Alan Wake, before we tumble out of that rabbit hole and into the cheery landscapes of Disney Illusion Island and Frog Detective.
Join us on this multidimensional odyssey and gain a deeper appreciation for the games you love — perhaps finding a new favourite along the way.
DO YOU KNOW GAMING
Lost in Cult and the video game trivia masters and purveyors of good secrets over at Did You Know Gaming are teaming up to bring you a huge, stand-alone multiplayer card game. Enter the Trivia Dungeon and answer the ultimate question: Do You Know Gaming?
Delve into the depths of your mind and test your gaming knowledge with Did You Know Gaming’s new, dungeon-crawling trivia card game. Alongside a group of fellow heroes, you’ll be tasked with using your wisdom and insight to answer gaming-related questions as you progress through the dark, killing monsters, acquiring gear, and becoming stronger, all in the hope of defeating one of several deadly bosses and escaping the dreaded Trivia Dungeon. Choose an iconic player character and either band together with friends to take out the dungeon boss, or go it alone and escape solo.
The Console Chronciles
The Console Chronicles is a unofficial celebration of every system that you hold dear. We’ll travel back in time to when the NES felt like an impossibility, pondering the beginnings of this new artistic frontier. Rivalries will be revisited, ending with treaties drawn as we explore hardware that now exists in harmony — spotlighting the communities formed around it.
We’ll tell stories of sibling rivalries and disruptive ideas, personal resonance and technical triumph. This is the ultimate tribute to not only five decades of home console gaming, but to the incredible people, and their remarkable stories, which make our shared history special.
MANSION
Before you is a house. A large house. A house of creaky floors. A house of long corridors. A house of dust caked carpets and candle smoke stains, stretching along the walls like grimy fingers. A house that no living thing should ever enter. Yet here you are.
Are you brave enough? Welcome to… MANSION.
MANSION is filled with interviews, essays, and the histories behind classic games, along with art and galleries from, and in inspired by, all the games that go bump in the night.
A collaboration between Fangamer and Lost in Cult, THE HORROR examines the foundational hits, cult classics, indie nightmares and obscure curiosities of gaming. The first volume in the series is MANSION, all about creepy castles, unkind estates, and cursed digital architecture. Will you enter?
