It’s more fun when nothing is the best. I spent a lot of 2021 oblivious. When the year began, I did what I was supposed to: I got the shots. I kept my mask on. I got tested constantly. The moments in which I saw my friends and family were…

A cool way to extend your console’s lifecycle is to make publishers do it for you by Brendon Bigley Via Megan Farokhmanesh @ The Verge: Remedy Entertainment’s critically acclaimed supernatural thriller, Control, is arriving on the Switch, Nintendo announced during a Mini Direct presentation. …

by Brendon Bigley Along with the rest of the US in the early 2000s, I found myself getting extremely into Sudoku for a short while in middle school. I was never even remotely good, but ripping through the first 10–20 puzzles in a given book or app — generally labelled…

March 2020 Hey everyone, hope you’ve had a great month! In an absolutely shocking turn of events, this entire edition of the newsletter is about Final Fantasy VII and Animal Crossing. Seems pretty probable every episode this month will follow suit, but it’s too early to tell. As always, thanks…

January 2020 When we first started talking about Into the Aether, there were a lot of conversations about time: The time it would take to record each week, the time it would take to edit, the time it takes to play the games, and the time it would take before…

Originally posted November 7, 2019 Howdy partners! As we move past Spooky SZN 2k19, we find ourselves marching towards the end of the year. This, for us, is a big deal as 2019 is the first year in which Into the Aether has existed for a full 365 days. It…

Originally posted: October 1, 2019 Hello to new friends and old! As always, we’d like to start by thanking you all for supporting the show — it truly means the world to us. As we mentioned in Issue #1, we hoped to use this newsletter as a platform to elevate…

December 2019 The end of 2019 ironically marks many new beginnings for the two of us. This is our first full year of Into the Aether, and we can’t stress enough how amazed and humbled we are at the growth of both the show and the community around it. This…