In the pantheon of video game icons, few characters boast the enduring legacy of Samus Aran, the interstellar bounty hunter at the heart of Nintendo’s Metroid series. Since her debut in 1986, Samus ...

A Nintendo rep has confirmed that Samus' latest adventure has surpassed the milestone when combining Switch 1 and 2 sales.

Samus Aran’s voice is very rarely heard. The intergalactic bounty hunter from the long-running Metroid series has barely spoken in any of the games in which she appears. She doesn’t speak in any of ...

Nintendo’s Hollywood era keeps getting bigger, and now one of its most iconic and intense franchises might finally be making ...

Beyond has sold over a million copies, when combining sales across both Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch.

When I was a kid, Super Metroid was everything. Weaned on Nintendo’s haunting, Alien-inspired side-scroller, I spent countless hours watching my father trudge through the depths of the planet Zebes as ...

Retro Studios broke conventions and reimagined the adventures of Samus Aran as a first-person shooter with the wildly ...

Samus is going Beyond, and it finally has a release date, and a new way of getting around a hostile alien planet. During its incredibly stacked Nintendo Direct that featured plenty of announcements, ...

Back in 2002, Metroid fans learned a lot more about the series’ mysterious heroine Samus Aran. On Nov. 18 that year, the first-person shooter Metroid Prime — developed by Retro Studios and recently ...

For all its flaws, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond still delivers one stellar sequence in Ice Belt.

"Completing this took far longer than anticipated." ...

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