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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!

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What Went Wrong? Wii U Edition

Posted on September 26, 2019December 24, 2020 by Samuel Rivera

Nintendo Wii U (2012)  Specs:  CPU: 1.24 GHz Tri-Core IBM Power PC “Espresso”  RAM: 2GB DDR3 (1GB for operating system, 1GB for games)  GPU: 550 MHz AMD Radeon based “Latte”  Display: 480i-1080p  Price point: $299.00 (8GB internal storage system) $349.00 (32GB Internal storage)  The Wii U for all intents and purposes is Nintendo’s biggest miss…

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Dreamcast Memories: Looking Back at Sega’s Last Console

Posted on September 9, 2019September 10, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

The Sega Dreamcast turns 20 today. Sega’s last console released on 9/9/99 with a multi-million dollar marketing campaign was Sega’s last effort in the hardware business. By late 2000 rumors were that Sega would pullout of the Hardware business, and they did in 2001-02 effectively killing the Dreamcast. We won’t go in depth today into…

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The Story behind a bad sequel: Alundra v.s. Alundra 2

Posted on February 11, 2019December 24, 2020 by Samuel Rivera

Alundra is an all time great game, Alundra 2 is an all time bust (at least when compared to the original) which is the reason why I have chosen this series to be dissected for the first installment of the story behind the bad sequel. Yeah that sounds like one of those VH1 documentaries. The…

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The Final Fantasy XII Debacle, The Square/Enix Power House, and The Contenders

Posted on February 11, 2019January 7, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

August 12, 2005 The worst thing that could have happened to the RPG genre was the Square-Enix merger. This merger united the two RPG giants into a single entity that threatens to monopolize the genre, as only a few giant publishers like Namco can now stand on it’s way. It was not only the worst…

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My take on the Government trying to mess with our games

Posted on February 11, 2019June 29, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

12/9/05 The Video Game industry for the past 15 years has quickly been growing, into a more widely used method of entertainment, to the degree that they can stand on their own against, movies, music and books. This has made Video Games a hot topic among politicians, lawyers and religious leaders, some who seek the…

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The End of a Console Era, Review of the Era and Predictions For the Upcoming War

Posted on February 11, 2019June 29, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

Disclaimer: Specs and sales numbers were taken from Wikipedia.org, for the sake of accuracy, the rest of the article was written By Samuel Rivera the Editor in chief of the NER site, this article does NOT necessarily reflect the opinion of all the staff in the NER site. Only the opinions of the author are…

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