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The Never Ending Realm features video game reviews, fan-fiction, fan-art, and more! Since 2003. Read all of our opinion pieces here!

Breath of the Wild

Top Ten Greatest ‘The Legend of Zelda’ Games of All Time

Posted on July 28, 2020March 27, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

The Legend of Zelda is one of the most successful video game series of all time. Here, I rank the series from the ‘worst’ (is there a bad Zelda game?) entry to the best entry. I’m obviously excluding the dreadful Phillips CD-i Zelda releases, as the creation rights were licensed to Phillips by Nintendo as…

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Halo Infinite

Halo Infinite: An Early Demo Build? Is the Criticism Warranted?

Posted on July 27, 2020January 9, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

  If you casually stroll through online message boards, and forums, it is likely that you have seen in some form, or another, the immense amount of backlash that Halo Infinite has received. It is inescapable, even some of the most ardent Halo fans have been underwhelmed by the gameplay footage that was shown last…

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Throwback Bit Thursday: WCW/NWO Revenge

Posted on July 23, 2020January 9, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

  Ah, 1998, my freshman year of High School. What good time it was for a 13-14 year old teenager to be alive. 3-D gaming was still in its infancy, making every new 3-D game on the Nintendo 64 an excitable prospect (even pedestrian games were interesting at the time). It was a magical time…

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The Xbox One X Has Been Discontinued:  Four Reasons For Why it Happened

Posted on July 17, 2020January 9, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

Microsoft’s most powerful console is being put to rest before even reaching its third-year birthday. In a stunning move, Microsoft announced that it will not be manufacturing any more Xbox One X consoles, and that the Xbox One line will live on through the considerably less powerful Xbox One S. The News were stunning, as…

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Throwback Bit Thursday: Alundra, More Than Just a Zelda Clone

Posted on July 16, 2020October 6, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

Go ahead, enter a gaming forum, and search for an action RPG discussion. The Legend of Zelda Series will usually feature a prominent role coupled with more modern titles such as Dark Souls and The Witcher 3. One game, that few, if any, mention is 1997’s PlayStation’s Alundra. Alundra is a wonderfully crafted 2-D Action…

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Throwback Bit Thursday: Grandia II

Posted on July 9, 2020January 5, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

Game Arts Grandia II was released on December 2000 as a Dreamcast title. The game was the awaited sequel of 1997 (1999 on PS1) Sega Saturn’s Grandia, as such it was one of the most anticipated Dreamcast titles for RPG fans. The game offered a clear upgrade in graphics over its predecessor, and featured fully…

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Throwback Bit Thursday: Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (N64)

Posted on July 2, 2020January 8, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire is a wonderful, but flawed game. This is how I have always perceived the title, which I must admit, I hold dear to my heart ’till this day’. The game received mixed critical reception in 96-97 by printed Magazines. A 7.8/10 in Electronic Gaming Monthly wasn’t a necessarily a…

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Nintendo Switch

Nintendo President Apologizes for Joy-Con Drift Issue, Faces Lawsuit

Posted on June 30, 2020January 8, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

The Nintendo Switch Has Been A Massive Success Since its Launch Back in March of 2017, Nintendo’s Switch has become a monster sales hit.  With about 58 million units sold, the system currently holds a 10-million-unit lead over the Xbox One which was released in 2013. Even if Nintendo does not catch Sony’s PS4 sales…

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Throwback Bit Thursday: Star Fox 64 is the Greatest Star Fox Game Ever Made

Posted on June 25, 2020January 5, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

Star Fox 64 (Lylat Wars on Europe) holds a special place in many Nintendo 64 owners’ hearts. Released globally in 1997, the game was a graphical tour de force of the system (which was less than a year old in North America), and it introduced the “Rumble Pak” to N64 Owners. Star Fox 64  was…

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Is The End of the 30+ Plus Hour Single Player Games Near? A Former Sony Executive Claims Such Games Will Become “Unsustainable”

Posted on June 24, 2020January 8, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

The ‘Death’ of the single player AAA game has long been preached by some industry insiders. From the moment that Call of Duty, and other multiplayer games became  smash commercial hits many have wondered if those games will eventually replace the Triple AAA games that feature strong single player story driven campaigns like the Uncharted…

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