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Episode 116 – Metroid Prime 4 Finally Shows Up and More Nintendo Direct Predictions!
Although as of yet still unannounced, a Nintendo Direct is looming, and a big one at that, as the Direct that would normally air during E3 (if E3 were still happening, that is) is always a big one, and we’re a week away from that time! This week, Andy and…
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Learn Chozo With This Community Written Language Course
Chozo is a mysterious language, with only two games having ciphers for the English language – Metroid: Other M and Metroid Dread. While Metroid: Other M has just a simple English-to-Chozo cipher, the team at MercurySteam went one step further and developed a constructed language (or conlang) for the cipher…
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Learn How to Sequence Break in Metroid Dread
The latest video from The Orpheon demonstrates several sequence breaks in Metroid Dread that allow the player to finish the game quickly by bypassing several rooms, areas, and bosses! Since the very first Metroid game in 1986, special endings have been rewarded to the players that have the ability to…
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Metroid Dread, Kaizo Super Metroid Scheduled for SGDQ 2022
Games Done Quick has announced their schedule for their 2022 summer line up, and Metroid Dread is on the list making its inaugural appearance along with Kaizo Super Metroid. Almost every Metroid game in the series has a well established speed running community supporting it, so it is no surprise…
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Metroid Dread Becomes the Best Selling Metroid Title of All Time, Sells 2.9 Million Units
On May 10th, Nintendo held their latest financial briefing detailing the company’s profits, losses and investments on a wide variety of fronts. There were several notable points brought up in the documentation, such as the Nintendo Switch reaching 107.65 million sales, Pokémon Legends: Arceus reaching 12.64 million sales and Kirby…
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Episode 111 – Samus’s Percentages: How Likely To Be True Are These Statements?
Welcome to a new segment on the show we like to call Samus’s Percentages! The premise is simple: we read a statement out loud and then assign a percentage on how true or likely we believe the statement to be. On today’s debut episode, we have a whole bunch of…
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OPINION: Metroid Needs a New Breed of Villain – The Three Dimensional Villain
As we all know, Metroid celebrated its 35th anniversary this past year with the release of Metroid Dread. Longevity like that is an incredible achievement, and really makes you appreciate how much Metroid has changed and evolved over the years, something that’s undoubtedly lead to the staying power the series…
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Take Look at This Analysis of All of Metroid Dread’s Story Secrets
Metroid Dread concluded a little over half a year ago and there is still plenty of mystique surrounding it’s story and the world of ZDR. Despite dedicating so much time playing Metroid Dread itself, The Orpheon was able to tear himself away to shed some light of Metroid Dread’s mysteries…
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The Top 5 Dread Shinesparkers in the Metroid Community
Back in March, Youtuber Jk issued a challenge to see who is the best Metroid Dread Shinespark user in the community. Just over a month later, it looks like we have our answer. Jk is back with another Metroid Dread Shinespark challenge video. This time, they’ve put together a compilation…
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Episode 109 – Should Metroid 6 Feature A New Playable Character and Samus as an Antagonist?
Andy and Dak are finally reunited and have a whole smorgasbord of Metroid topics to dive into! We go over the recent DYK Gaming video highlighting the development of Metroid Prime, talk about the reported leaks showing Nintendo using Game Boy Advance emulators and what it could mean for NSO,…
