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In 1986, a number of Nintendo's biggest franchises made their debut on the Famicom/Nintendo Entertainment System. Zelda was one, and now this month, we celebrate another: Metroid. More »
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In today's Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Monsieur.Froid urges us to sit back, relax, and get lost in the wondrous landscapes of the most gorgeous virtual worlds gaming has to offer. More »
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What could Metroid mainstays Mother Brain, Crocomire and Kraid have looked like in the beloved Metroid Prime video games? See for yourself in some recently excavated art work from the artists behind Nintendo's first-person Metroid adventures. More »
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11 year-old Joe DeRosa wants to dress up as a girl this Halloween. That girl is Samus Aran, star of the Metroid series. So his dad Tony is helping him build an awesome arm cannon. More »
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First 4 Figures follows-up its Metroid Prime 2: Echoes gunship with a gorgeous 12 inch replica of Samus' gunship from the original Metroid Prime, and it can be yours for only $300. More »
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Retro Studios, the Austin, Texas based development team responsible for making three Metroid Prime games for Nintendo—and one Metroid Prime compilation—may be ready to reveal its new project, a game reportedly starring Donkey Kong. More »
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While Metroid: Other M may feel like a departure for the series in the way it plays and the influences brought in by fabled designers Team Ninja, at its heart it is meant to be a unifying game for the series. More »
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Three unusual things happened to former Metroid Prime designer Mark Pacini in 2009: He received high praise he didn't seek, saw a somewhat depressing game box and figured out that gaming in 2011 "is going to kind of suck." More »
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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption may have wrapped up the GameCube-to-Wii trilogy, but fans of first-person adventuring in the suit of Samus Aran may be able to look forward to future Prime games. More »
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Do you ever wonder why some of gaming's top development studios put out so few games? I know, I know. Making games is hard. But here's what happens when you ask the Metroid Prime developers that question. More »
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Following the recent release of Metroid Prime Trilogy, members of Nintendo's development teams in Texas and Japan answered Kotaku's questions about what the Metroid Prime series got right, what it missed and more. They even hinted at Prime's future. More »
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In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Admiral Dane expresses his frustration with the Space Pirates by letting out a rather mild profanity. "Damn," to be precise. In the Metroid Prime Trilogy, which released a week ago, it's been scrubbed. More »
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PS3 Slims. World of Warcraft expansions. Is there any news for the Wii gamer these days? A copy of Metroid Prime: Trilogy arrived in the office this week. I've had little time to investigate it, but did discover this. More »
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Two of the men leading the new Metroid Wii game told Kotaku about their narrative ambitions for the 2010 sequel Metroid Other M and explained why the Metroid Prime team isn't involved. More »
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Surprise! The rumors that all three Metroid Prime games would receive a compilation release in the US with the "Wii-applied" control scheme were true. More »
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As we mentioned earlier this week, three former members of Retro Studios (Metroid Prime) have struck out on their own and created Armature Studio. Mark Pacini, Todd Keller and Jack Mathews, three key development figures behind the Metroid franchise, chatted with Gamasutra about their reasons for creating a new studio, as well as the problems they see with the current game industry development model: More »
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Click to view Three of the key developers behind Nintendo's popular Metroid Prime series recently jumped ship to form a new development studio that will be dedicated to creating games for all three platforms under a publishing deal with Electronic Arts, the publisher announced today. Armature Studio, located in Austin, Texas, is headed by Mark Pacini, Todd Keller and Jack Mathews, the former Game Director, Art Director and Principal Technology Engineer of the Nintendo franchise. In a recent interview with Kotaku, Pacini said that the trio formed the new company some time in April and signed their exclusive publishing deal with EA two to three months later. "EA approached us with this really interesting business model of creating a small studio that is only comprised of industry veterans," Pacini said. "The goal is to create new IP with a very, very small team and to produce a game without having to grow that team." Pacini said he and the others at Armature are excited to finally be working on games for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 and not just the Wii and DS. More »
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I know. Metroid made the jump to 3D years ago. Just the one GameCube could do it, no duct tape required. But is it really 3D? Course not. You can keep your supposed Z-axis, if I'm playing Metroid on a two-dimensional screen, it's two-dimensional. Which is why these shots of Metroid Prime 3, taken and converted by Nintendo Everything's Valay, are so great. Because they're really in 3D. You need the blue/red glasses and everything. More »
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According to report from Shacknews, three senior staffers at Metroid Prime series developer Retro Studios have left, described as being "escorted off the premises last Friday." Specifics weren't provided, but Shacknews theorizes that the move could indicate that the trio, which includes Metroid Prime 3 Corruption director Mark Pacini, is planning to set up shop outside the confines of Retro. More »
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The gaming industry lost another long-time contributor yesterday, IGN reports, as Retro Studios senior software engineer Mark Haigh-Hutchinson succumbed to pancreatic cancer. Haigh-Hutchinson's 23-year career spanned stints at both LucasArts and Retro, where he specialized in camera systems and controls. He helped to create beloved games such as Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Sam 'n' Max Hit the Road, Zombies Ate My Neighbors and the Metroid Prime series. He was also the author of the book Real-Time Cameras, published in 2008. More »
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At the Montreal Games Summit, Retro Studios prez Michael Kelbaugh and game director Mark Pacini waxed nostalgically on the development of the Metroid Prime series. While opinion on the decision to change the series' direction from 2D action adventure to 3D, first-person shooter may be divided, what I think we can agree on is that behind the scenes look at how it all came to be is certifiably neat-o. Hearing tales of Shigeru Miyamoto shooting down game design concepts, the months long struggle to make the game's morph ball work and the last-minute decision to include the scan visor are the kinds of things one rarely hears about from Nintendo published games. More »
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New images and details about The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - the first Zelda game for Nintendo DS - Mario Kart Wii, Super Mario galaxy, Metroid Prime 3 and more. Press releases after the jump. More »
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Gamasutra is reporting that Factor 5, currently hard at work on the PLAYSTATION 3 exclusive Lair, may be revisiting the Turrican franchise. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=255043&view=rss&microfeed=true Dust off that box covered with Animal Crossing stickers, it's time to remember at the top ten games you loved (in my case) a year ago. But for all of you out there in Kotaku-land who already sold your box to buy something newer and shinier, this should make you reconsider picking one up at the next garage sale you crash. More »
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Alex over at First 4 Figures sent word that they've just signed a three year deal with Nintendo to make toys and action figures based off Metroid properties. As usual, these toys look a lot better than the rubber-headed He-Man homoeroticism dolls we played with as kids. More »
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Via Academic Gamers comes a piece written by Rice student Amanda Phillips on Metroid Prime. "Behind the Visor" looks at the use of in-game texts that detail the lore behind Metroid Prime as the principle storytelling agents in Prime. These texts are numbered and scanned into a log book while the player adventures in Prime. They are optional, however, so much of Prime's backstory and narrative isn't forced on players, it's a narrative you have to seek out, scan, record and then read. More »
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