Games, horror, and unruly genre talk.
WASD and Beyond is a sprawling pop-culture feed where game showcases, horror rewatches, and a guest interview share the same loud table. Its best moments come when jokes, corrections, and side tangents gradually turn into real criticism.
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WASD and Beyond is a pop-culture podcast with a video game spine and a horror-movie bloodstream. It is not neat. The show’s charm comes from the way Nick, Noah, Alex, John, Evan, and guests move through topics like people who know each other well enough to interrupt without losing the thread. One episode can track the Triple-I Initiative showcase, Astroneer expansion talk, demos, and the appeal of friend-focused multiplayer. Another can slide into Screambox territory for Ghosthouse, The Beyond, or Tromeo & Juliet, where haunted dolls, grave logic, Troma-style adaptation, and gross-out movie craft all become fair game. The pace is quick and messy. The analysis still lands. A trailer reaction can become a defense of young developers getting their games out into the world, and a horror recap can turn into a serious question about what a prop, scene, or adaptation choice is supposed to do. The Lloyd Kaufman interview shows the same sensibility in a more reverent mode. The hosts are clearly excited, but they mostly let the conversation breathe as Kaufman talks through DVDs, physical media, theatrical prints, preservation, Troma, and the realities of making movies. Game coverage is practical and enthusiasm-led, with attention to platforms, demos, release windows, Steam Deck potential, showcase pacing, and what the group actually wants to play after recording. Horror coverage is more chaotic, but it is still attentive to structure, tone, gore, performance, and cult-film texture. The show is blunt without feeling distant. It can be warm, crude, excited, and oddly sincere in the same stretch. For PlayNext users, it works as a high-energy discovery feed for people who want games, horror, and creator culture filtered through a loud table of genre fans instead of a tidy critical apparatus.
Made for: Best for listeners who want fast, informal pop-culture criticism from people fluent in games, horror, showcases, and cult movies. It especially suits fans who enjoy banter that eventually becomes a point.
What sets it apart: The feed treats video game previews and Screambox horror recaps as connected parts of the same taste world. Its loose panel format lets jokes, corrections, and tangents accumulate into surprisingly specific reads.
WASD and Beyond: A Video Game and Pop Culture Podcast!Hosted by Nick and BrodyIT CAME FROM SCREAMBOX!: A horror movie discussion podcast.Hosted by Nick, Noah, and AlexPart of the Spawn Camp Network.Sponsored by FINALBOSS, Screambox, and DOC LONGY
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Its lively horror conversations connect plot logic, practical effects, and cult-film enthusiasm without sanding down the hosts' argumentative chemistry.
WASD and Beyond turns screen culture into a loose, spirited group argument. Nick, Noah, Alex, John, and Evan move between horror discussion and video-game coverage, reacting in real time while still getting specific about story logic, visual effects, genre, and design.
A haunted doll's backstory and a Game Awards ballot can both become your urgent business.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A foul-mouthed horror discussion turns a stolen doll into its sharpest mystery.
The haunted doll gives this single-episode review its cleanest hook, and Nick, Noah, and Alex treat it like the kind of horror object that follows viewers out of the movie.
Nick and John turn indie picks into a warm, messy case for games that friends discover together.
Nick and John turn a stretch of indie game talk into a loose case for what they call friend slop: games discovered, bought, and played because a group latches onto them together.
Lloyd Kaufman talks Troma, DVDs and filmmaking in a loose, funny interview with a practical streak.
Lloyd Kaufman turns an enthusiastic fan interview into a loose, funny conversation about Troma, filmmaking and physical media. He recalls adopting DVD early and makes a practical case for it: cleaner presentation than scratched 35mm prints, plus room for production history and…
A filthy Shakespeare riff works best when the hosts connect the gags back to Romeo and Juliet.
Nick, Noah, and Alex frame the film as a rowdy, specific conversation about nudity, a raccoon scene, a big glass box, and Romeo and Juliet dragged through a filthy Troma-style filter.
A loose game-news roundup finds its strongest moments in Goldman enthusiasm and sharp skepticism around Vaunted.
The appeal is the quick swing from game announcements into immediate judgment. Nick and Noah move from Musa: Dirty Fate, framed as a Korean samurai game with zombies, to The Eternal Life of Goldman, where the hand-drawn look, cute old man, customizable cane, and sudden…
A loose, funny Game Awards nominee chat whose warmest moments come from family gaming.
WASD and Beyond turns the Game Awards nominee announcements into a relaxed round of predictions, playful wagers, and category-by-category reactions.
Friendly interviews from inside pop culture.
Culture, conversation, and weekend momentum.
Fan-first interviews with genre creators.
Creative work, traced back to its sources.
Hosts Nick, Evan, and John of WASD and Beyond break down the nominees for The Game Awards 2025.
The hosts of It Came From Screambox discuss the finale of the horror series The Trouble with Tessa, covering episodes 5 and 6.
A group of friends discuss having a tail and then introduce a review of the 2025 Toxic Avenger movie.
Nick and Evan frame Primetime as a psychological thriller about Chris Hansen’s attempt to beat Lost in television ratings.
WASD and Beyond's Nick and Evan question Xbox's direction as Halo shifts to Activision and Microsoft reports 268 additional gaming job cuts.
WASD and Beyond reviews Ghost House, and Alex frames it as the American title for La Casa 3 after explaining that Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 were released in Italy under the La Casa label.
WASD and Beyond episode 253 is a 2026 Triple-I Initiative rundown from Nick and John, centered on indie trailers and DLC drops.
Nick, Noah, and Alex interview Lloyd Kaufman on It Came From Screenbox about Troma's survival, DVD extras, and the company's physical-media and streaming strategy.
The hosts discuss rising gas prices in Michigan and a state of emergency declared by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, then joke about inappropriate content and their podcast's rating.
Hosts Nick and Noah discuss the emotional Artemis II launch before introducing their Screambox movie review.
Nick chose Tromeo and Juliet, which he calls a 1996 Troma classic and a Lloyd Kaufman-James Gunn collaboration with Sean Gunn, Lemmy, and Merrill in the mix.
Crimson Desert is described as "Breath of the Wild, Red Dead Redemption, and Skyrim" in one open world.
Nick and Evan review Resident Evil: Requiem on the WASD and Beyond podcast.
Nick and John share a humorous bathroom story before reviewing MEWGENICS on their podcast.
A discussion about RPG preferences and anticipation for the new Fable game, focusing on development time and player expectations.
Nick from It Came From Screambox interviews director Anthony Cousins about his films Frogman and Frogman 2.