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Author: Elijah Beahm

Don't Stop Believing
A still from the movie The Royal Hotel shows main characters Hanna and Liv standing in front of a retro car in a parking lot. Hanna stares somewhere past the viewer while Liv is turned away, gazing in another direction.

How Art Helped Me in 2025

By Elijah Beahm • January 8th, 2026

We might not even realize it as it happens, but what we engage with shapes us.

A screenshot from Alien Rogue Incursion Evolved Edition where the player is looking at minimap, holding their gun, and standing in a snowy base while someone named Zula is asking why the player is going through all this trouble

Alien: Rogue Incursion’s Evolved Edition Feels Like It Skipped A Few Evolutionary Steps

By Elijah Beahm • December 10th, 2025

You literally interact with the world less than in VR, and that’s a shame.

Don't Stop Believing
A screenshot from Control shows Jesse floating in a long hallway that spirals impossibly around her.

Control Explores Theology in the Multiverse

By Elijah Beahm • December 5th, 2025

In CONTROL, faith is a fundamental force like gravity.

Don't Stop Believing
A screenshot from Bioshock Infinite shows Elizabeth sitting at a desk in front of a portrait of Marx.

Forgiving, and Forgetting, Bioshock

By Elijah Beahm • November 5th, 2025

If there is one constructive lesson that can be learned from Bioshock Infinite, it’s the crucial, fundamental need for forgiveness.

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Key art from Bioshock 2 shows a Big Daddy looming in the darkness like a deep sea diver.

Bioshock 2 Asks You to Have the Faith of a Child

By Elijah Beahm • October 7th, 2025

How far will you exploit others to achieve your own goals? And can you forgive others of their own misdeeds?

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Official art for the film Legion shows a shirtless archangel Michael gazing upwards into a beam of light, wings outstretched.

Legion Reinvents… Jesus?

By Elijah Beahm • September 10th, 2025

Rudi Berden’s Legion both is and isn’t a story of the apocalypse, and weaves a ton of different Biblical stories and apocrypha together.

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A dark-haired woman in a leather jacket stands with her arms crossed in front of a microphone in this screenshot from Stray Dogs, stage lights and bright red curtains behind her.

Stray Gods’ Pantheon Yearns For Reformation

By Elijah Beahm • August 6th, 2025

There’s no one size fits all “I’m a good person” option players can opt for. Because that’s not how this works, especially in religion.

A crop from one of the Witchland Trilogy panels with a modern home lit up and surrounded by transparent ghostly figures

Toxic Waste from the Stage to the Page: The Witchland Trilogy

By Elijah Beahm • August 4th, 2025

Like Chernobyl meets Silent Hill.

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A screenshot from Dante's Inferno shows a bird's eye view of the inside of a church, portions of which are on fire. At one end, a lone figure stands in a pure white shaft of light, holding a massive blade.

Dante’s Inferno Was Visceral to a Fault

By Elijah Beahm • July 3rd, 2025

Is it possible to be a devil’s advocate when you’re condemning a game on Hell?

Key art for The Thing Remastered, a painting of four men in parkas with guns and in the background is a terrifying red face shifting from human to monstrous

The Thing: Remastered, an Interview with Nightdive

By Elijah Beahm • June 18th, 2025

“I switched it back on, tweaked the logic a bit to look more natural, and bam, restored cut content.”

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