Video gaming is hugely popular all over the world. But what would games be without their soundtrack? Music is not only an integral part of games, but also an increasingly important part of pop culture. Tracks delves into the world of video game music appreciation and finds out how composers create the right sound world to capture gamers’ imaginations.

A new wave of erotic magazines is breaking the traditional heterosexist mould and encouraging a new engagement with desire, body image and sexuality. Tracks met Barcelona duo Paco & Manolo who produce the bi-yearly magazine Kink dedicated to art and eroticism and American Brynne de Turk Weaver who edits the semi-erotic Pour Toi publication.

The oil and gas industry in America is over the moon as the US president wants them to ‘drill baby drill’. How are climate activists feeling as America rolls back on its climate obligations? Tracks met the Yes Men who infiltrate oil and gas conferences to protest the sector’s greenwashing.

The story of a wealthy man saving a ‘fallen’ woman has become a cliché (Pretty Woman, Anora), far from the reality of prostitution. But what if sex workers told their own stories through art?

Upcycling is all the rage. But the pioneers didn't wait for it to be cool before salvaging second-hand clothes and fabrics. Since the 1990s, JJ Hudson, alias Dr Noki, a figure of the London underground, has been transforming used clothes into wearable works of art, hijacking logos and brands to strip them of their advertising power. In Paris, Lamine Badian Kouyaté, founder of Xüly Bët, deconstructs sportswear and reuses fabric scraps to create unique pieces.