The official art and commentary book is up for preorder at Amazon and releases October 28, about a month before Metroid Prime ...

Powerful, useful and so satisfying to land right on an enemy's weak point, the Super Missile from Metroid 1 and 2, and its cousin the Hyper Missile from Metroid Prime 3, are one of the best abilities ...

Maddie Fisher is a writer, journalist and game developer. She was born and raised on the east coast, having started working in games journalism over ten years ago. She tends to enjoy musical theater, ...

The Metroid series is one of many long-running Nintendo franchises that contains both 2D and 3D entries. With Metroid Prime 4: Beyond also releasing this year, you may be interested in playing one of ...

Metroid: Samus Returns sends the titular bounty hunter Samus to SR388, the Metroid’s home planet. Samus’ mission is to find out what happened to a group of Galactic Federation teams that disappeared ...

Both Ori and the Blind Forest and its sequel, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, are excellent follow-ups to Hollow Knight: Silksong. They look beautiful and offer the joy of exploration, combat using a ...

The most popular metroidvania titles are often tied to a major franchise, even though it's not a requirement to be good. And ...

Metroid Other M is a misguided game, to say the least. While the ideas are there to make a solid installment, featuring some pretty pleasant Wii graphics and high-octane set-pieces the likes of which ...

There is arguably no more idiosyncratic descriptor in the entirety of gaming than “Metroidvania.” A portmanteau of the beloved Metroid and Castlevania franchises, the term refers primarily, though not ...

However, few games, no matter the length, pack as much fun and ambience into every minute as Metroid: Zero Mission. Composers Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano do a stellar job of recreating and ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from New Play Control! Metroid Prime Wii de Asobu: Metroid Prime (also known as New Play Control! Metroid Prime) is a port of Metroid Prime for the Wii with ...