[I’m not sure which of the two disclaimers to start with so I’m just go with this one: nothing in this review says you have to dislike something you like. No disagreement about the quality of something encourages or invites you to get mad, you can just shake your head and move on.]
[This review contains spoilers for Final Fantasy XVI a...
2023-10-27 17:28:45 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the goings on in the video game industry over the last week. A lot to talk about this week and I have a plane to catch in a few days and I’ve not packed at all, so let’s get into it.
Hello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the goings on in the video game industry over the last week. This’ll be a shorter one this week as I’m between both announcing the game I’ve been working on and also going to Tokyo next week to help market said game. Still, there’s a few stories I definitel...
2023-09-09 00:02:43 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the goings on in the video game industry over the last week.The discourse is genuinely pretty rancid this week and it was one of the few times where I was hoping Twitter or X or whatever the hell they call it now actually did go down as opposed to all the times it ...
2023-09-01 22:49:37 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the goings on in the video game industry over the last week. I’m back after getting married last week in an event that was supposed to include a Pokemon battle between me and my wife. We had spent a while creating teams of Pokemon, EV training them, and essential...
2023-08-25 21:46:13 +0000 UTC View PostHi! This is normally where the newsletter would be, but it takes a small backseat for this week and next week as I, you know, get married and stuff. We'll be back after that to cover whatever needs to be covered.
On a side note, that FFXVI review is still in progress and, uh,
2023-08-11 21:52:39 +0000 UTC
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Hello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the goings on in the video game industry over the last week. This may be the most old man thing I’ll ever say, but is it me or are there just fewer types of candy bars at the fronts of grocery stores these days? Like, if you don’t like Reese’s, then a fourth ...
2023-08-04 23:30:32 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the goings on in the video game industry over the last week. I’ve been playing a lot of Final Fantasy XVI recently and, well, I’ll finish that game before I give final thoughts but man do the first 8 hours of that game write a check that the third act cannot ca...
2023-07-28 23:44:32 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the goings on in the video game industry over the last week. This week, at the grocery store, I overheard two men talking about Tears of the Kingdom. The only reason I noticed (aside from forgetting my headphones) was that one of the men was making fun of the other...
2023-07-22 00:21:59 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the goings on in the video game industry over the last week. Apologies for the really scattered cadence lately. Turns out planning a wedding, shipping a game, and writing a book all simultaneously tends to just eat up whatever time and brain power one has left. Add...
2023-07-15 02:13:15 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the goings on in the video game industry over the last week. We took a little time off, to get sick and get better, but we’re back to start discussing video games again. And I suppose, after finishing Zelda, start actually playing other video games again too. Cur...
2023-06-24 00:17:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow, we're back! We've gone to Summer Game Fest, gotten sick (unrelated), gotten better (related), and played some video games in the meantime! This week, Imran is joined by Natalie, Nerium, and Michael ...
2023-06-23 21:27:32 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the goings on in the video game industry over the last week. I often feel like every time I step away from Tears of the Kingdom to do anything else, I’m dragging myself away from it. But after about 120 hours, I think I’m finally starting to pull away a little ...
2023-06-02 22:26:31 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the goings on in the video game industry over the last week. This week had previews and showcases and all sorts of other things to keep us busy and talk about, so let’s not waste time and jump into the biggest stories of the week.
We're back because we were really busy playing Tears of the Kingdom!
Considering that really all we've been doing the last few weeks is playing the new Legend of Zelda game, it makes sense this week's episode will be primarily focused on that. Gam...
2023-05-26 17:39:41 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the goings on in the video game industry over the last week. This week is less about news and more about, well, all things Zelda. Most people who are reading this, or would be reading this, are probably out actually playing the game. I’ve only been playing it for...
2023-05-12 22:20:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the goings on in the video game industry over the last week. It’s Cinco de Mayo, which a lot of people use as an excuse to pack bars and pretend there’s a reason for it. It always kind of struck me as odd when we celebrated it in schools — not because we shou...
2023-05-06 00:24:29 +0000 UTC View Post*rolls*
You got a 5-star podcast! Thanks to your generous contribution of Materia Possessions Bucks (MPB), you have won a podcast of the highest SSRR rarity. In this podcast, Imran, Michael, Andrea, and Mike talk about the latest gacha game from Hoyoverse, Honkai Star Rail. Andrea then talks about Roots of Pacha, which can be reducti...
2023-05-06 00:18:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the goings on in the video game industry over the last week. Happy end of April, so we’re one-third through 2023. Did you know you perceive time differently as an adult versus when you were younger, so things felt like they took longer back then and eventually it...
2023-04-29 00:28:51 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the goings on in the video game industry over the last week. We took a small break last week led partially by Patreon just kind of…not working, but we’re back at it again. This week, we’re going to talk a little bit about something dominating the news in fits...
2023-04-21 21:58:13 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the goings on in the video game industry over the last week. This week, we’re going to cover the general news, but I’ll also start with a review of the Super Mario Bros. movie. Yes, let’s all jump back into a Chrysler Voyager and head to the 1993 movie theate...
2023-04-07 23:38:34 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the goings on in the video game industry over the last week. I expected that I’d do an “E3 Edition” of this newsletter eventually — presumably around, you know, E3 — but it seems we’re getting into it far earlier than usual. If you’re looking for Tear...
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This week, a slightly smaller crew gets together because the universe has decided that Andrea and Natalie can never be on the same podcast...
2023-03-30 22:49:38 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the goings on in the video game industry over the last week. We’re a day later than usual today because I wanted to write about GDC, the game developer’s conference, but that meant having to actually attend GDC through Friday. I also had a couple of other topic...
2023-03-25 23:57:38 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about everything that’s happened in the video game industry this past week. Well, usually, but not a lot has actually happened this past week solely in games. Those that did are also kind of bummers! So this week, I’m going to talk a little bit about something that...
2023-03-17 23:06:03 +0000 UTC View Post/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72034042/ss_8a5b4063c83ad2216a23134511fe2ab8bb8c06cf.0.jpg)
This week, John, Andrea, and Nerium listen to Imran recount his food crimes in pursuit of a Diablo IV b...
2023-03-17 21:47:47 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a weekly newsletter about the gaming industry and what’s going on in it. It’s Mario Day, a day to celebrate all-things Mario, and a number of things have happened this week including a Starfield delay, Forspoken sales, a Resident Evil 4 demo, and more. And we’ll get to that, but I wan...
2023-03-11 02:01:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Materia Possessions is back after a short hiatus for people to do things like research books and play Final Fantasy XVI. In this episode, Imran, Michael Higham, Nerium Strom, and Mike Williams get together to talk about playing the newest Final Fantasy ...
2023-03-02 21:58:27 +0000 UTC View PostHello and welcome to Everything Everywhere Once A Week, a newsletter driven by your Patreon contributions. This week, I’m writing the newsletter from Atlanta, Georgia while I do research on a book about Yoko Taro’s Nier and Nier Automata titles for Press Run Publishing. That book should, in theory, be out later this year. But before all that...
2023-02-25 03:09:54 +0000 UTC View Post
It used to simply be a fact of the video game industry that not every title would make it over from Japan. I would flip through the Game Players magazines or Next-Generation or what have you and oggle their import pages with simultaneous wonder and baff...
2023-02-17 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post