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…
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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…
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…
Minecraft Sells Over 200 Million Units With 126 Million Monthly Users
Mojang Studios is celebrating the extraordinary milestone of achieving 200 million units sold of their once in a generation hit Minecraft. The Microsoft owned studio ( Microsoft bought it for 2 billion in 2014) was very proactive during the ongoing quarantine period by offering their Minecraft: Education Edition free until June. Over 50 million downloads of…
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s Frame Rate Will Not Reach Valhalla
If you thought you had seen the last of 30 fps games, think again. According to Eurogamer Portugal, Assasin’s Creed Valhalla will run at – a not so impressive – 30 frames per second. Considering how powerful the Xbox Series X is….these are baffling news indeed. Ubisoft didn’t stress, or comment on the frame…
The Elders Scrolls 6 Will Not Arrive For Years to Come According To Bethesda
The wait for the Elder’s Scrolls 6 will continue for the foreseeable, and perhaps, unforeseeable future. Bethesda’s Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Communications Pete Hines, got into a bit of a twitter argument on Sunday. When questioned about the lack of information on The Elder’s Scrolls 6, Pete Hines – to the disappointment…
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PS4/XboxOne) Review
The greatest open world fantasy game of all time the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (at least by yours truly’s reckoning), returned in 2016, in remastered form for PS4 and XBOX ONE. It added mod support, and a minor graphical overhaul. In this review, I will answer the most important of questions regarding the game: Does…
Dark Souls: Remastered Edition (NS) Review
I will start this review off by admitting that I didn’t play Dark Souls back when it was originally released on 360/PS3. My first experience with the game has been the Dark Souls remastered edition for the Nintendo Switch which consequently is the subject of this review. I will always remember 2011 as a sad…
Fable (XBOX) Review
The XBOX is famous for its lack of Japanese RPGs, however, the console has been blessed with a few great western RPGs. One of these RPGs is the subject of this review in Fable. In the making for more than 3 years, gamers waited patiently through the endless delays, and got more than tired of…
Alundra (PS1) Review: An Action-RPG Masterpiece
Alundra is a special game in many ways. The game was released in North America by Working Designs in 1997. At the time I wasn’t really into Action RPGs, so I paid no attention to the game. Unfortunately, Working Designs released a limited amount of copies of the game which at least by my estimation…