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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The Last of Us: Part II Beats PS4 Record by Selling 4 Million in 3 Days
Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II lived up to its hype as the most anticipated PS4 exclusive ever, by becoming the fastest selling exclusive title in the system. TLoU2 beats out the former title holder Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VIIR, which sold 3.5 million units in three days. The numbers shouldn’t be surprising….
Obsidian Dev Talks About The Outer Worlds Switch Port, and Being An Xbox First Party Studio Going Forward
For a few years now, Microsoft has shifted gears (no pun intended) moving in a direction reminiscent of its early original Xbox, and Xbox 360 days. The company has been acquiring several studios to work under their Microsoft Studios (Now Xbox Game Studios) banner in order to boost their portfolio of exclusive games. Exclusive games…
Former Rockstar Dev Explains GTA VI’s Absence is due to GTA V
When Grand Theft Auto V was announced during the PS5’s game reveal it was a surprising thing to many who were left wondering if we had ever seen a Remaster of a Remaster before. At the same time, Rockstar’s move to bring its popular (some would say “Too” popular) game to, yet another generation of…
Will Fable 4 Make A July Appearance?
Fable, a Peter Molyneux’s creation that made its debut in 2004 on the original Xbox console. The game was well received though highly criticized in some circles because in true Molyneux fashion, some of the promised groundbreaking features did not make it to the final game. The action RPG series would produce two…
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…
The Last of Us Part II: Violent, Dark and Cynical About Mankind
An in depth piece by GQ magazine chronicling (Director) Neil Druckmann’s struggles during the most anticipated PlayStation 4 game’s last two years of development, reveals incredible details about how Naughty Dog went above and beyond the call of duty to create a story, and characters ahead of anything seen in a video game before. Druckmann…
Nintendo’s Switch is the Biggest Winner of the Pandemic’s Video Game Sales Boom
While the effects of the Pandemic and the subsequent worldwide lockdowns hurt world economies and many industries a few have seen growth, in some cases exponentially. The Video Games Industry had one of the biggest surges in sales ever recorded for a month of March in it history. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One sales grew…
PlayStation CEO Hopes For The Last of Us Part II To Be A Defining Game
In a CNET.com Interview, Sony PlayStation’s President and CEO Jim Ryan discussed a variety of topics including the Last of Us Part II, and PlayStation’s pricing. As the company prepares for its PS5 games reveal this week Ryan seems confident on Sony’s ability to carry out a perfect launch for its next generation system. “We…
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…