That Metroid series took a little nap during the N64 era as Nintendo was unable/unwilling to release a single home console game between the success of the SNES Super Metroid in 1994 and the GameCubes Metroid Prime in 2002. So a fan steps in – and back in time – to make one for themselves. ...
picture: Nintendo / Kotaku That Metroid Prime Logo looks so perfect and appropriate for the game that you probably never really noticed or thought about it. It’s just one of those things that looks like it always existed or came into this universe fully formed. But the designer behind the iconic logo is here to ...
image: Retro Studios/Nintendo/Fox/Kotaku love Metroid, but being a longtime fan does weird things to you. Take, for example, the latest kerfuffle over Retro Studios updating its Twitter banner. Where a normal person might see a cool piece of Samus Aran concept art, the ravenous Metroid fan, their hunger unsatiated by Metroid Dreadimagines a portal hiding ...
The Nintendo Wii is arguably one of the innovative video game consoles ever released, but when it comes to raw power – at the time, it was well behind the competition. This led to some third-party developers completely skipping the generation, and even certain Nintendo teams were forced to rethink their approach to next-generation games ...
Nintendo Life Nintendo made the tough decision at the beginning of 2019 to restart the development of Metroid Prime 4 with the help of Retro Studios. Since then (and even before), there’s been very little activity on the Metroid front. Fortunately, there is a passionate Metroid fanbase and one talented group of developers known as ...
