The Lovecraft Investigations is a radio serial that reimagines HP Lovecraft's stories as a modern day true crime podcast that gets too real. Available via BBC sounds or Apple Podcasts. The four seasons to date have adapted The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Whisperer In Darkness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Haunter of the Dark.

A kickstarter for a 5th season, Crowly was successful in July this year. Written and directed by Julian Simpson, they're also part of the Pleasant Green continuity. Unfortunately most of the constituent serials were hosted on soundcloud and are temporarily unavailable.

PC; Origame Digital
This odd but absorbing adventure sends you waddling across Antarctica in search of an eldritch entity – uncovering a world far stranger than it first appears

A Nazi kneels down on frozen snow, staring at an endless Antarctic horizon. Another holds a gun to his head, ready to end his own life. I direct a small waddling penguin up to them, trying to imagine what it could be thinking. Dismay, perhaps. Likely bewilderment. But then a faint smile seems to break out across its beaky face, as if amused by these silly humans and their misguided belief that they could ever best this howling, harsh landscape.

For most games, the idea of playing as a penguin observing Nazis losing the plot near the south pole would be weird enough. But Penguin Colony, developed by Origame Digital, pushes further. This is an audacious, frequently brilliant retelling of HP Lovecraft’s 1936 novella At the Mountains of Madness, in which eldritch horrors are just as common as Nazis. Further weirdness abounds: the many collectibles scattered about this place are not shiny gold objects à la Super Mario or Sonic. Rather, they are words. So tottering about as a semiaquatic bird, you have a unique mission: collect human language.

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© Photograph: Origame Digital/Fellow Traveller

© Photograph: Origame Digital/Fellow Traveller

© Photograph: Origame Digital/Fellow Traveller