The Popzara Podcast, the official podcast from Popzara.com.
Episodes
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Our guest on this illustrative episode of the Popzara Podcast is cartoonist R. Sikoryak, whose work has appeared everywhere from The New Yorker, GQ, MAD Magazine, and The Daily Show, creator of best-sellers Masterpiece Comics and iTunes Terms and Conditions: The Graphic Novel, here to talk about his latest creation: Constitution Illustrated, now available from Drawn & Quarterly. Joining him is our own comics fan Nathan Evans, whose yet to publish any best-selling anything, but has been known to read a few from time to time.
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
On this dulcet episode of the Popzara Podcast our own lowly Nathan Evans talks with Ilan Eshkeri, an award-winning composer whose music has filled concert halls, cinemas, television and, increasingly, gaming headsets, thanks in particular to his work helping compose the soundtrack (with Shigeru Umebayashi) to Ghost of Tsushima, the new historical action-RPG game from Sucker Punch Studios.
Monday Jul 20, 2020
Monday Jul 20, 2020
It’s The State of Gaming Podcast for July 2020, our in-depth monthly look – and listen – to what’s moving hearts and minds in the land of gaming in audio form. So let the soothing sounds of hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans take you to that happy little place where the games speak for themselves – and the hosts speak for the games. It’s a vicious cycle, but we do our best. Let’s get to it!
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
It’s summertime and the living is easy… well, maybe not that easy, but thanks to the State of Gaming Podcast for June 2020, it’s a little bit easier. And because we’re entering the hot and sweaty summer of an industry without its usual bevvy of distracting tradeshows and broken promises that means sequels, super (new) consoles, and plenty of discounted gaming goodies worth taking a second look at while the gettin’ is good.
In short: it’s gaming back to what it used to mean – gaming – and our intrepid hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans are here to help sort through it all. Let’s get to it!
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Joining our own noob Nathan Evans on this fragalicious episode of the Popzara Podcast is legendary Esports commentator and occasional Unreal Tournament trash-talker Paul Chaloner, better known to gaming enthusiasts around the world as ReDeYe, author (with journalist Benjamin Sillis) of the new book This Is ESPORTS (And How To Spell It): An Insider’s Guide to the World of Pro Gaming, now available for your buying pleasure.
Thursday May 21, 2020
Thursday May 21, 2020
It’s a highly melodic episode of The State of Gaming Podcast for May 2020 – which can only mean one thing: game music! Our jam this month is all about the return of acclaimed gaming musician Yuzo Koshiro to the genre he does best and the game wrapped around it. Assisting in this booty-thumping boogy are none other than hosts Cory Galliher and Nathan Evans, greased up and ready to take things back to the streets. The streets of gaming, that is.
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Our guest on this buffering episode of the Popzara Podcast is filmmaker Shawn Cauthen, joining our own content binger Nathan Evans, here to talk about his new documentary Netflix vs. The World. Based on Gina Keating’s 2012 book “Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America’s Eyeballs”, the film chronicles the streaming giant’s transformation from its founding in 1997 as a scrappy online DVD disc purveyor to the world-conquering mega media corporation that its since become.
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
It’s another episode of The State of Gaming, our ever-expanding new series dedicated to what’s shaking up the gaming industry on a monthly basis. And that month for today’s episode happens to be April 2020, and our socially-distanced hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans are ready and willing to tackle everything a partially shut-down industry has to offer.
Friday Mar 27, 2020
Friday Mar 27, 2020
That’s right: it’s the second episode of The State of Gaming, the new episodic podcast from your friendly neighborhood Popzara Pals. Editors Cory Galliher and Nate Evans are back to keep you updated about everything that’s fresh and happening inside the gaming industry from an inside and colorful perspective as only they can.
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Stuck at home with no place else to go? You’re not alone. On this restrained episode of the Popzara Podcast join Nathan Evans, Cory Galliher and Ethan Brehm dig deep into their collective backlogs and favorites to compile a comprehensive list of the best games and movies worth playing and watching to help battle the quarantine blues. Also, get ready for a bit of much-needed silliness and frivolity as the guys completely lose control and go with the flow.
Thursday Mar 19, 2020
Thursday Mar 19, 2020
On this archival friendly episode of the Popzara Podcast our own amateur historian Nathan Evans talks with filmmaker and fellow gaming enthusiast Kevin J. James, director of Not For Resale, a new documentary examining the twilight years of traditional video game stores, the rise of retro gaming, and what appears to be an unstoppable ascendancy of digitally delivered gaming to the masses.
Friday Feb 28, 2020
Friday Feb 28, 2020
Say hello to our new feature that (we hope) will replace the older NPD reports in the hearts and minds of our equally cherished listeners: The State of Gaming, a new monthly wrap-up that looks at some of the most exciting and interesting developments rocking the gaming industry, with minimal snark and heavy focus on critical analysis. Even better, it’s got the exact same hosts – Cory Galliher and Nate Evans – so we guess some of the old was good enough to stick around.
Saturday Jan 25, 2020
Saturday Jan 25, 2020
It's that time of the year again – movie award season! And there’s no bigger movie award show than the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, aka The Oscars. With the 92nd Academy Awards set to bestow their Oscar gold on February 9th we figured it’d be a great time to share our movie nerd editors' Christian Stirling, Ethan Brehm and Nate Evans picks for the best, worst and everything else that impressed - and disgusted - them at theaters and streaming boxes in 2019.
Friday Jan 24, 2020
Friday Jan 24, 2020
2019 – what a year! As fading platforms like the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One ready their next-generation successors, streaming promises a whole new way to play and competitive eSports is more popular than ever there was no shortage of hits and misses in the wide world of videogame delights.
All that’s fine and dandy, but what about the actual games people play? You’re in luck: join our own gaming savants Cory Galliher, James McKeever and Nate Evans as they plug in (their microphones) to share their thoughts on the best, the worst, and everything else that made gaming in 2019 one for the books.
Wednesday Jan 15, 2020
Wednesday Jan 15, 2020
Popzara’s own Herman Exum, Nathan Evans and – thanks to carefully crafted notes and pre-show chats – senior editor Chris Mitchell are joined, once again, by super special guest Ben Crossman from The Computer America Show as they gather around their microphones to talk and discuss the technological spectacle that was CES 2020.