The titular metroids from the Metroid series are one of gaming’s most iconic creatures with a long standing history. This Bite-Size Lore will go condense the metroids’ lore over the course of the ...

Scheduled for release for Nintendo Switch on October 8 th, the highly anticipated Metroid Dread is being touted as the final chapter in the Metroid story that began nearly 35 years ago. This isn’t ...

Spencer is a Feature Writer for Collider. He is a University of South Florida alum with a major/minor in English and journalism. He lives in rural Florida and is a huge fan of slasher movies, mecha ...

There’s an interesting side effect of creating a popular piece of science fiction: if you wait long enough, say 30 or 40 years, there’s a good chance that somebody will manage to knock that pesky ...

Metroids suck. Not the games -- those rock. We're talking about those overgrown, energy-draining amoeba things. True, they might make for great plot devices and gameplay hooks, but they're pretty ...

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.

Nintendo has released a new overview trailer for Metroid: Samus Returns designed to help remind people what Metroid II: Return of Samus is all about. This four and a half minute video begins by ...

This lengthy boss fight has several phases. Before even considering the Queen, you must first destroy her offspring, the Metroids. You can largely ignore the Queen for this leg of the battle. Keep ...

Metroid: Samus Returns is a full blown remake of the second game in the series, Metroid II: Return of Samus. Just like the original the main objective of the game is hunting down and killing various ...

In addition to being one of the most underserved first-party Nintendo franchises, Metroid is also one of the few Nintendo franchises to have a strong, consistent, and cohesive narrative canon. The ...