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Classic Video Games With Real-Life Backdrops Are Delightful

Video games from the 8-bit and 16-bit era mixed with real life environments look awesome, and it’s a technique that lets anyone’s creativity shine. It’s something that Kotaku has covered before, but it would be a mistake to not share the new ones.


The Kids Of Today Seem To Be Struggling With Super Metroid

SNES classic Super Metroid went on sale for under a buck earlier this week, the combination of price and the game’s status obviously resulting in a massive influx of new players.


The Most Amazing Video Game Title Screens

We did a gallery on the most awesome continue screens a few weeks ago, so it’s only fair that we give their complement — start menus and title screens — the same treatment.


Now This Is How I Imagine Samus Looking

It always baffles me when people go out of their way to make Metroid’s Samus look “beautiful”. As if that matters. There’s a reason her gender was kept secret for the first game, and that’s because the point was she was a badass, not that she was a she.


A Visual History Of Attractive Video Game Characters: The ’80s

Video games in the ’80s only depicted a certain amount of pixels on the screen. Fortunately, that didn’t hold developers back from pushing the limits of the available hardware to play with our imagination by creating beautiful, handsome characters.


Maker Of Three Of The Best Games Ever: ‘I Think Everything We Do Sucks’

Most interviews with game developers are stuffed with predictable hype about how wonderful everything in their game will be. It’s pre-release time. A season for optimism! Here’s something different — something brutal yet refreshing…


This Creepy-Cool Metroid Poster Gives A Shout Out To Alien

Lovers of Nintendo’s sci-fi action franchise know that Metroid’s female protagonist and a cosmic ecosystem of creatures that nest all over the galaxy were inspired by Ridley Scott’s classic space horror film Alien. A new poster by artist Marinko Milosevski (who we’ve featured before) honours that thematic connection with a darkly cool image done in a movie poster style.


Let This Halo Stained Glass Turn Your Home Into A Gaming House Of Worship

If you grew up Catholic like me, you can only have one response to seeing the creation above: “Holy Samus, Mother of Metroid, hallowed be thy name.” Hang this translucent beauty where it can catch some sun and you might see people genuflecting.


The Most Amazing Snow Levels And Zones In Video Games

Barring timed underwater escort missions, snow levels, with all their slippery ice and falling rocks (not to mention the fog), are probably the deadliest.

Yet it’s easy to find enjoyable — or at least memorable — ones, even if we disregard games where the entire setting is snowy (We’re looking at you, Skyrim).


Forget Metroid: Other M, This Is How I Always Imagined Samus…

I didn’t necessarily have any issues with Metroid: Other M in terms of how it worked mechanically. On the contrary, I enjoyed it. But this fantastic piece of art, by poojipoo really illustrated the massive misteps Nintend and Team Ninja made with the character of Samus. She was reduced to a blubbering, indecisive mess when she really should have been like the Samus in this fanart: determined, efficient, brutal if need be. I love it.


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