Nintendo

Metroid’s Samus Aran Weighs In On Mother Brain’s Ban On Gay Marriage

Remember how it blew your mind when you found out that the character you’d been jumping and shooting with in the first Metroid was a woman? Well, it turns out she was hiding a lot more than long, flowing locks under that Varia Suit armour.


January 11, 2012
Nintendo

Samus, You’re All Legs And Shiny Plastic

First shown at last month’s Comiket, this Metroid: Other M statue features heroine Samus in her Zero Suit. Here’s a better look, because this figure deserves one.


September 24, 2011
Nintendo

Don’t Blame Team Ninja For Metroid: Other M’s Story

The latest Metroid game, Other M, took some… liberties with the universe’s story, and what it did to hero Samus in particular didn’t go down too well. Many people blame the game’s developers, Team Ninja for this, but that’s not very fair.

You need to blame someone from Nintendo instead. Something Team Ninja is only too happy to do.


July 26, 2011
Nintendo

3 New Ways To Spend Your Hard-Earned Club Nintendo Coins

You’ve bought Nintendo product, registered it online, and collected Club Nintendo coins for your effort. Nintendo repays you with a Metroid screensaver, Donkey Kong posters, and a giant AR card you could have printed out yourself!


July 5, 2011
Nintendo

Can’t We Just Forget Metroid: Other M Was Ever Made?

Kotaku AU

Look, I’m sure that there is someone out there who enjoyed Metroid: Other M, but I wasn’t one of them. It wasn’t the game itself, more the heinous way in which the character of Samus was treated.


January 25, 2011
Nintendo

Metroid’s Heroine Won’t Fight In The New Dead Or Alive

Dead or Alive: Dimensions for the Nintendo 3DS will feature a cameo from Metroid hunter Samus Aran, but she won’t be jiggling alongside the rest of the DOA cast. Samus, sadly, won’t be playable in the game.


January 20, 2011
Nintendo

There’s A Little Metroid In Dead Or Alive For 3DS

Dead or Alive: Dimensions, the Nintendo 3DS entry in the long-running, extremely jiggly fighting game series, is coming from Team Ninja. That’s the same team behind Metroid: Other M. Now the two are coming together.


November 13, 2010
News

Nintendo Trying To Work Out What Went Wrong With New Metroid

Nintendo wanted to sell a million copies of Metroid: Other M, which wasn’t a bad game. They won’t, not by the end of the year in America, and now they’re trying to figure out why.


September 28, 2010
News

Nintendo Asks Players Stuck In Metroid: Other M To Mail Save Files

Nintendo is warning players away from Metroid: Other M’s potentially game-breaking locked door bug in Sector 3, but if it’s too late for you and your save file, you’re going to have to mail away for a fix.


September 27, 2010
News

Nintendo Taking Care Of Metroid: Other M Bug

Metroid: The Other M has a game-freezing bug. In Japan, Nintendo has a fix. It involves sending things on a truck.