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Join Us March 19th For A Metroid Marathon Stream Raising Money for The Trevor Project (10 am PST)
Mark your calendars! Starting tomorrow at 10 am PST / 1 pm EST, the team at Omega Metroid will be live streaming three Metroid games – NEStroid, Metroid Dread, and Super Metroid – in support of the Trevor Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to suicide prevention among LGBTQ+ youth. We’ll…
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Kiwi Talkz Interviews Lawrence Schwedler (Metroid Prime Hunters Sound Designer)
Kiwi sits down with Lawrence Schwedler, one of the sound designers behind Metroid Prime Hunters! Currently, Lawrence is a program director for the music and sound design program over at Digipen. Before that, he worked at NST for several years on games such as Mario vs Donkey Kong and Pokemon…
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Check Out These Influences on Metroid You Might Not Know About
Metroid’s influences are often boiled down to a single film: Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien. This isn’t a problem in it of itself, but it is limiting in its scope. “Critical Kate” Willært seeks to cast a wider net, looking at what else has influenced the classic Nintendo franchise. Willært…
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Once Upon A Tee’s Zebes Collection Is On Sale
If you’re in the US or Japan, there are some Metroid merchandise options available for you from the official Nintendo store. However, at least in the US store, the designs are a little lackluster. Here’s where the fans come in. Once Upon A Tee has several of these awesome fan-made…
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Episode 104 – Definitively Ranking Metroid (NES)
Definitive Ranking returns after almost a six-month hiatus to examine the granddaddy of them all: Metroid! We take a look at the original game and try to balance how it holds up today with how it innovated video games 35 years ago and have some fun discussion about the assortment…
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Join TheSpeedGamers March 11-13th for a Metroid Marathon Benefitting Zero Prostate Cancer
What’s better than watching skilled players play Metroid games and having fun with their friends? Not much, but watching skilled players play every Metroid game continuously in support of Zero Prostate Cancer comes to mind! Our friends at TheSpeedGamers are embarking on a 48 hour livestream, filled with tons of fun…
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Sorry Metroid Fans, But Brie Larson Would Be The Perfect Samus
Stop me if you’ve ever heard the phrase “what’s best for business”. This is usually said with a kind of negative connotation, as it’s usually associated with the idea of doing something unpopular, uncomfortable, unsavory, and just generally difficult. However, it doesn’t always have to be that way. Sometimes what’s…
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Kiwi Talkz Interviews Sam Dillard (Composer)
Kiwi provides an unique interview with music composer, Sam Dillard! On the Metroid side of things, Sam has composed the Metroid Cinematica, where Sam envisions music from the original Metroid and Super Metroid as well as the Prime Trilogy if it was composed as an epic film score. That’s not…
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Episode 10: Ranking Every Ridley Fight in the Series!
Oh boy, strap in because Andy and Dak are going to WAR in this episode! The fellas get together and rank every fight versus Samus’ biggest nemesis in the series and nothing is held back! This episode is all about Ridley, what fights we loved, what fights missed the mark,…
