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New Metroid Prime-Inspired Album by SynaMax Available Now!
Electronic music producer SynaMax has released his long anticipated album, Eclipse, a series of tracks inspired by the Metroid Prime games. Eclipse is a brand new full length album featuring 11 Metroid Prime-inspired pieces of music, alongside a bonus remix by SynaMax’s partner, shoffur. Eclipse follows Samus Aran for an…
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Check Out This Video About How Metroid Prime 4 Could Be Designed
With the release of Metroid Prime Remastered, we now have a hint, or at least a reminder, of what Metroid Prime 4 could look and play like. As Metroid Prime 4 speculation has been given new life, the latest video from hotcyder on YouTube jumps right back into discussion. Since…
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Stemage Celebrates 20 Years of Metroid Metal With New Retrospective
If you’ve been playing Metroid for a while, odds are you’ve heard of Metroid Metal. You’ve probably even heard a track of two. But have you ever thought about how long Metroid Metal‘s been around? Grant Henry, better known as Stemage, has sure been thinking about it. In a new…
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Check Out This Feature-Length Documentary Covering the Metroid Franchise
The Metroid franchise has been going on for nearly 37 years now. Despite its ups and down, through tragedy and triumph, the Metroid series has endured with a lasting legacy throughout the video game medium. With the release of Metroid Dread, the surprise release of Metroid Prime Remastered, and with…
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DidYouKnowGaming Uncovers Lost Metroid Games
One noteworthy aspect of Nintendo is how secretive they are and how protective they are of their IPs. Information regarding announcements from new Mario games to upcoming Smash Bros fighters are kept under tight security. The Metroid series is no exception to this, with a plethora of development mysteries still…
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Learn About The History and Evolution of Samus’ Animations in This Video Essay!
Samus has appeared in numerous games across all of Nintendo’s consoles. Her adventures have been in 2D, 3D, in first person, and at times, everything mixed together. Many aspects of Samus and the worlds she explores have changed over Metroid’s 36 year history, but the animations for how Samus runs,…
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Learn How to Recreate Metroid Prime Style Music in this Video Tutorial!
I don’t know much about music, but I know what I like, and I remember the first time I heard the distinctive synths of the Metroid Prime soundtrack, I knew that I was in love. I also knew that I hadn’t heard anything in a video game that quite sounded…
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Check Out This Orchestral Arrangement of The Metroid Prime 2 Title Theme
As a lover of orchestral video game soundtracks and remixes, Wingus Dingus on YouTube has become one of my favorite channels as of late. So I was more than excited to see that not only a new upload had hit the channel in the past few weeks, but that it…
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Metroid Meets Doom In This Insane Musical Crossover!
For the first time in over a year, Omega Metroid’s own Doominal Crossing has released a brand new mashup, an original piece of music created by combining multiple pre-recorded songs together. The piece, “The Emperor of Doom”, combines “Emperor Ing, Phase 2” from Metroid Prime 2: Echoes with “The Doom…
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Check Out This Video Analyzing the Tragedy of Samus Aran
Much of the Metroid lore presented to players leaves room for plenty of speculation. Details that give a general sense of what happened on a planet before Samus arrived is to be expected, but enough is told through environmental story telling that fan speculation is able to fill in some…
