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Join the Speedrunning Hall of Fame November 4th-6th As They Race Metroid Dread and More In Suport of the National Alliance on Mental Illness
Starting this Friday, November 4, Speedrun Hall of Fame is hosting Skip the Stigma, a non-stop 3-day streaming event to help benefit the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Throughout the event, you’ll have the opportunity to join in and help celebrate the fun and passion of speedrunning, and of…
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Metroid Musing: Would a Remix of a Classic Theme Have Helped Spice Up Metroid Dread’s Soundtrack?
After 19 agonizingly long years, the fabled Metroid Dread was finally released last October. By almost every single metric, it was an absolute homerun. Best selling game in the series? Yup! Nominated for Game of the Year by multiple outlets? You betcha! Beloved my fans? Almost universally! Metroid Dread was…
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Episode 135 – Metroid Dread Retrospective: One Year Later
It’s hard to believe, but it’s been over a year since Metroid Dread released. This week, Andy and Dak are joined by Omega Metroid Website Reporter Griffin Olney to reminisce about their initial reactions to Dread being announced, the buildup towards the game and specifically whether or not Kraid should…
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Learn How To Better Understand Metroid Dread Through the Chozo Language
We all have passions in life, some more important than others. And despite how miniscule or ridiculous it might sound, one of my passions is better understanding Metroid. It is without a doubt my favorite gaming franchise in existence, and before you go rolling your eyes (which you invariably already…
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Metroid Musing: Will Metroid 6 Introduce a New Metroid Ability For Samus?
At the end of Metroid Dread, we discover that Samus’ Metroid DNA has awoken. In her final moment of defeat she transforms into her Metroid Suit and seizes Raven Beak. There we watch her new ability take over–the Metroid within her saps away not only the lifeforce within Raven Beak,…
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Should We Be Worried About Metroid’s Future? This Video Breaks Down Why Perhaps We Should!
Back in February, the first Nintendo financial report of 2022 gave news every Metroid fan was hoping for. In a 3 month time period, Metroid Dread sold 2.73 million copies, almost beating the lifetime sales of the previous best selling Metroid game, Metroid Prime, at a whopping 2.74 million copies…
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Episode 131 – Metroid This or That!
On this week’s episode, Dak and Doom play a game of Metroid This or That! We’ve got a bunch of different prompts and questions involving Metroid that Dak and Doom take their stances on. Would they rather take the slide or flash shift for the next 2D Metroid? Would they…
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Episode 129 – Samus’s Percentages: Will Metroid Prime 4 Launch on Nintendo’s Next Console?
Welcome back to another edition of Samus’s Percentages! The premise is simple: we read off a statement and then assign a percentage on said statement ever coming true. In the hot seat this week is our friend Kiwi Talkz, as he joins Andy to answer a bunch of questions, including:…
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Episode 128 – Ranking Every Metroid Game’s Final Area!
Summer’s almost over Metroid fans, but not to worry because we’ve got just the remedy – a good ol’ fashioned ranking episode! This week, Andy and Doom are judging every Metroid titles final area and ranking them from best to worst! What even constitutes a final area? What criteria do…
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Metroid Musing: Can Any Future 2D Metroid Remakes Get Away With Not Having the Slide?
If you were to ask me what my favorite Metroid game is, I’d probably answer on most days that it’s Super Metroid. It was my first Metroid game, and it’s still an amazingly put together video game, almost 30 years after its release. I replay it often, I love the…
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- Metroid II: Return of Samus
- Super Metroid
- Metroid Prime
- Metroid Fusion
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
- Metroid: Zero Mission
- Metroid Prime Hunters
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
- Metroid: Other M
- Metroid: Samus Returns
- Metroid Dread
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
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- Metroid (NES)
- Metroid II: Return of Samus
- Super Metroid
- Metroid Prime
- Metroid Fusion
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
- Metroid: Zero Mission
- Metroid Prime Hunters
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
- Metroid: Other M
- Metroid: Samus Returns
- Metroid Dread
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
- More Games