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The Most Diverse Fascists You’ll Ever Meet

By Elijah Beahm • September 3rd, 2024

Let’s have more women spaceprison guards, too, while we’re at it.

A photo of Zochi cropped in on her face. She has coiled braided hair, wide silver rimmed glasses, a black leather vest and white long sleeve shirt, and is tilting her head to while looking at the camera and pointing up with one lone finger

How an African Princess Became a Singer of a Queer-Affirming God

By Elijah Beahm • August 7th, 2024

“Whenever I’m writing a song, whenever I’m singing a song, I make sure that I’m coming from a place of being free, just being free. I let my emotions speak through my song.”

A crop of the cover art for the Bette Davis Eyes cover single by Katrina Woolverton and Val Garay, a black and white image of Woolverton with black curly hair looking up but with a ringed hand held up to shield her eyes

A Fresh Look Through “Bette Davis Eyes” With Katrina Woolverton & Val Garay

By Elijah Beahm • July 30th, 2024

It was awave of stylistic rebirth that prompted Garay into finally exploring “Bette Davis Eyes” for a new audience, “because I’ve been approached a zillion times to recut that song, and I always said ‘Absolutely not’ because it’s just too iconic.”

Banksy on Display: An Interview with the Executive Director with NYC’s New Banksy Museum

By Elijah Beahm • June 17th, 2024

Elijah Beahm interviews William Meade, the Executive Director of the new Banksy Museum in NYC.

A collage of images from The Cloven with the title in distressed type in the middle. Someone with short hair and no clothing is running through trees and red light, a hand is displayed, legs jumping, a face smiling in the dark, all drawn with brushstrokes to indicate action

Hoofing It With The Cloven’s Garth Stein and Matthew Southworth

By Elijah Beahm • May 30th, 2024

“Telling a story is all about a dialog between the presenter and the audience, right? The reader and the writer and and the readers trying to figure it out.”

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The Impossibility of Mods Makes Them So Valuable

By Elijah Beahm • May 1st, 2024

Why would anyone do this, with minimal support, working uphill against someone else’s code, for free?

A screenshot from Alone in the Dark 2024, featuring a rainy street at night, with two lamps and a click with a street sign that says Dercator

Rebuilding Derceto with Alone in the Dark’s Developers

By Elijah Beahm • April 18th, 2024

“In the horror genre, it’s key to make everything feel grounded in the world you’re creating. How all details must feel as a natural part of the environment, no object is there purely by accident; it has its own story to tell.”

A screenshot from Timemelters, where the lead character holds a hand ringed with light to send energy against a horde of charged zombies heading her way while the moon hovers overhead and a spooky building lurks behind

Melting Time With Autoexec Games

By Elijah Beahm • March 27th, 2024

“Our players really love overcoming challenges. Forming a great strategy, incorporating all your echoes, slowly watching it come together. It’s been incredible to see people play. I don’t think there’s a better feeling as a game dev.”

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Is it Alt to Like Call of Duty These Days?

By Elijah Beahm • February 1st, 2024

Somehow, some Call of Duty games seem to have slipped out of the mainstream…

Gaming from the ZX Spectrum to the Cloud: An Interview with RiotPWR’s Fraser Townley

By Elijah Beahm • January 11th, 2024

An involvement in videogames that’s continued throughout the decades sees Townley now focused on the growing interest in mobile and cloud gaming. He’s set his sights on capturing the best parts of more traditional gaming options while on the go.