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”
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…
Throwback Bit Thursday: Resident Evil: Code Veronica (DC)
A failed attempt of developing a Resident Evil 2 port for the Sega Saturn ended up in the development of Resident Evil: Code Veronica. Code Veronica chronologically speaking was the true sequel to Resident Evil 2, even if Resident Evil 3: Nemesis ended up being the numbered successor to the PlayStation survival horror hit. While…
The Rise and Fall of Japanese Role-Playing Games (JRPGs)
Before we start, let us make one thing clear: Japanese Role-Playing Games are not dead. The genre never died, its games are everywhere around us in portable machines, mobile phones and in-home consoles. The word ‘demise’ in reference to the JRPG genre is more a description of the genre’s current state in comparison to its…
Throwback Bit Thursday: Castlevania (64) A Beloved and Underrated Game
The year was 1999, and the Nintendo 64 wasn’t doing so hot in terms of sales in contrast to Sony’s PS1. However, the system wasn’t lacking in high quality games. The N64 was coming of a huge year (1998) with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time shredding every possible standard imaginable in terms of…
Throwback Bit Thursday: Final Fantasy VII Could Have Been Xenogears
Those of us who loved Chrono Trigger, and its – not so direct – sequel Chrono Cross, might never get to see a third game in Square’s most critically acclaimed series. However, Xenogears in some ways felt like a spiritual cousin of the legendary SNES title. Made by a team composed of many of the…
The Top Ten Greatest Final Fantasy Games of All-Time
The Final Fantasy series has been the torch bearer for Japanese Role Playing Games (JRPGs) since the 90’s (at least in the Western markets), and consequently, has spawned a long running series with 16 numbered entries accompanied by a number of spin offs based on the property. This top ten will do away with the…
Throwback Bit Thursday: Ocarina of Time – The First Person Adventure That Almost Was
Every Thursday the Never Ending Realm will pay homage to older games by discussing tidbits of information that you might not know about the development of some of the most iconic titles in Video Gaming History. In this first installment we travel back in time to the mid 90’s where Nintendo’s EAD was hard at…
O.J. Simpson and The Power Rangers Killed The Gargoyles TV Show In The 90’s
The Gargoyles was one of my favorite TV shows back in the 90′. After 2 glorious seasons, and a pedestrian 3rd one that was done under different staff, the series was canned. The series made a resurgence last year on Disney Plus as the 3 seasons are included with their app. A in depth Polygon…
Xbox Series X 3rd Party Games Reveal, Thoughts, and Pricing Analysis
This past week, Microsoft unveiled a few third party trailers for the upcoming Xbox Series X. Thus giving gamers a glimpse of – what we assume to be – Launch 3rdparty titles for the system. The reveal, which is much more than we have gotten from Sony in regards to the PS5, keeps Microsoft at…