A full decade before popular female leads like Lara Croft and Jill Valentine became mainstays of gaming, Samus Aran, the badass bounty hunter of the Metroid Series, made waves when her pixilated ...

Samus Aran is the iconic protagonist of Nintendo’s long-running Metroid series. With so many games in the series, Samus’ history is just as rich, with her having taken multiple daring, galactic wide ...

30 years ago Nintendo released Metroid, the first game in what would become a long lasting franchise. Although it would never be their most popular offering (easily trumped by Mario and Zelda), a ...

“The cosmos. In the vast universe, the history of humanity is but a flash of light from a lone star. The life of a single person should be lost in space and time but among the stars is one light that ...

With Metroid Prime 4: Beyond finally becoming a reality (cue screaming), let’s talk about the legend herself: Samus Aran. It’s the perfect time to revisit the bounty hunter behind the Power Suit, ...

Team Ninja’s upcoming Metroid: Other M is heavy on story. But what if you haven’t paid attention in past Metroid games? How the hell will you know what’s going on? Allow Metroid’s heroine Samus Aran ...

This article contains spoilers for some Metroid lore, specifically from 'Metroid Fusion,' along with some wild theorizing about what's going on in 'Metroid Dread.' Metroid Dread can be terrifying. At ...

Since this franchise title makes up one half of the inspiration for the genre term “metroidvania,” you probably already know what a typical 2D Metroid game looks like, but I’ll break it down anyway.

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30 years ago Nintendo released Metroid, the first game in what would become a long lasting franchise. Although it would never be their most popular offering (easily trumped by Mario and Zelda), a ...