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Of all the various and surprising things we've seen turn up recently running on Oculus VR, this one might be the one I'd be most likely to play: Metroid Prime, done up in virtual reality.Read more...

Video games comedian Brentalfloss has had a long-running "What if video game songs had lyrics?" gag. His first, Mega Man 2, I featured five years ago, and we all had a great laugh. But now, with Metroid—one of gaming's most beloved soundtracks—he and vocalist Alysha Umphress play it straight, and get it right.Read more...

The Metroid Mod is an impressive recreation of Nintendo's NES classic within punishing roguelike, Spelunky. The mod isn't out yet, but that can't stop you from watching Samus Aran explore Zebes-inspired caverns and avoid giant Metroids, speedy Skrees and even Ridley.

And the real height difference between Samus and Little Mac in Super Smash Bros. Wii U? Masahiro Sakurai's here to show us, to make things clear.Read more...

I don't know how this game went this long without this mod, but that doesn't really matter: Here it is, at last, Spelunky done Metroid-style. The title screen and music alone should fire you right the hell up.Read more...

Every year, it seems like more and high-end merch from Nintendo lands on the shelves of Toy Fair. Once again, Kotaku hit the annual trade show in New York City and, this year, we might have seen some of the most beautiful sculpted versions of the company's characters yet.Read more...

Concept artist Joey Spiotto has an ongoing series where he mixes video game protagonists with the Little Golden Books children's literature series, and this time, he went for Nintendo characters.Read more...

"Housed within the Control Capsule! Protected by Rinkas! Eyeball armed with a Laser Brain Attack!! The massive Assist Trophy Mother Brain joins the collection!!" Masahiro Sakurai, in his latest Screenshot of the Day Miiverse post, presents the upcoming Smash Bros. games' newest assist trophy: Metroid's Mother Brain.Read more...

Lee Trouder is a cinematic artist who has worked for studios like Treyarch, Sony Santa Monica, EA and Pandemic. He also, in his spare time, has some ideas on what Nintendo's Metroid series should look like.Read more...

Ground meat ain't just for hamburgers, you know. It's also for art.Read more...

This article is a continuation of Mama Robotnik's epic telling of the story of Nintendo's Metroid series. Please make sure that you've read part one—and its official explanation of where this lore comes from—first. And make sure your browser is ready for a long piece stuffed with awesome images.Read more...

Nothing beats the passion of a true fan writing about something they love. That's what you're about to see here: one of the richest, most amazing tributes to a great gaming series that we've ever run on Kotaku. Warning #1: this one might make your browser chug, so close your other tabs. Warning #2: This piece might make it hurt a little more than there are no new Metroid games from Nintendo on the horizon. Read more...

Remember those creepy Nintendo bust sculptures from a few weeks ago? They were pretty cool, right? Well, they’re just a small part of a massive NES-themed art show opening in New York City this Friday. We’ve got a look at more pieces that will be in Bottleneck Gallery’s upcoming 3NES art exhibit and, honestly, they’re pretty stunning. Read more...

Well, that didn't take long. Remember that $90,000 Kickstarter to make a Metroid fan film—one that didn't have Nintendo's permission? Yeah, it ended about like you'd expect. They'd gotten about $20,000, with two weeks left in the fund drive.Read more...

Would you watch an animated series based on Metroid? I sure would. Read more...

Didn't we just go through this with Final Fantasy VII? Someone wants to make a Metroid fan film. They're raising $90,000. They don't have any agreement with Nintendo. Of course they don't. Read more...

Kirby is acting like a face-hugger on top of poor Samus in Masahiro Sakurai's latest Smash Bros screenshot. The world's first intergalactic pink puffball waddles his way into the battle.Read more...

This is Spud's Quest, a neat little six-hour (that's playtime, not development time) puzzle-adventure with a Metroid-inspired upgrade system, temples based on Zelda's, and gameplay inspired by classic European platformer series Dizzy. It is set to hit PC this summer, and can be pre-ordered via its official website.

Before you hit "Start," enjoy some totally rad and totally bad retro title screens.

Retro Studios, makers of the legendary Metroid Prime series, is currently busy creating the next generation of Donkey Kong Country, much to the chagrin of a lot of Metroid fans. That doesn't mean, however, that they abandoned Metroid. On the contrary. "Well, we love Metroid. We love Metroid Prime and we always will," Retro Studios President Michael Kelbaugh told IGN. "It was a big part of our studio, the culture of the studio... We might do another one someday. But we really enjoyed working with [Donkey Kong] as well." Kelbaugh explained that the team wanted to develop another Donkey Kong Country to see what they could do with the franchise on the Wii U's more powerful hardware, and to implement some leftover ideas from Country Returns. So, why not develop a new Metroid Prime alongside the new Donkey Kong Country? "We’re pretty much on one major project at a time. We do a game every two years or three years... Do we have the bandwidth to do two major projects at once? I don’t think so. A big project and a little project at the same time, we can do that." IGN then spoke to Nintendo's Kensuke Tanabe, producer of all four Metroid Prime titles, who chimed in with his own ideas on where the Prime series could go next. "Basically I’m thinking of, not just Samus, but how we can expand the whole Samus universe. You remember Metroid Prime Hunters. I’m thinking about things like how we could make that go out further, with all these different bounty hunters as well." Well, better late than never. E3 2013: Nintendo, Retro Discuss Future of Metroid [IGN] Questions? Comments? Contact the author of this post at andras-AT-kotaku-DOT-com.

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. Players that, thanks to the wonders of the Miiverse, appear to be...struggling with 1990s game design. There's always the chance these guys are trolling/joking, but then, it seems just as likely that a generation of people who have grown up with proper tutorials and hand-holding are, well, finding it all a little difficult. Are people struggling with Super Metroid or are they trolling? [Go Nintendo]

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. So I love this pic by poojipoo, which gives her a hard edge that's been lacking from recent entries on the series. I mean, you've seen the things she's seen, and done the things she's done, you're going to look a little "harder" than a Barbie doll in a blue jumpsuit. Samus Portrait [DeviantArt, via Gamefreaks]

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) honors that thematic connection with a darkly cool image done ina movie poster style. Here’s what Milosevski had to say when I asked him about the piece: I know Alien inspired the game, and I wanted to start a series of posters that were like theatrical posters so this is the first of those. I also thought it'd be really fun and interesting to portray an older, simpler looking game like Metroid really seriously, which is where the dark tones and everything came from for this. Making the actual image itself was the easy part after thinking up how I wanted it laid out and coming up with the idea. I basically drew the various shapes like the egg and the Metroid and just expanded from there adding highlights to the egg and a light gradient coming out of it to shine under the bottom of the Metroid. If you want to hang this haunting image up on your wall—maybe next to Milosevski's awesome Legend of Zelda and Metal Gear Solid prints—head on over to his site.

#megaman 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. Those glowing renditions are the work of Evan Daniels, who sells his wares out of the Martian GlassWorks shop on Etsy. This kind of craftsmanship doesn't come cheap but it's adman sight more classy than a poster or a statue. More »

#awwww Yesterday, a good friend of mine invited me to speak at an after-school game club in East Harlem about the game industry. As an adult, it was one of those very illuminating and humanizing experiences that reminds you exactly what it was like to love games dearly when you're 11 years old. Trust me, the kids are alright. More »

#art Face it: we're never going to get a game where Thor, Optimus Prime Boba Fett and Commander Shepard team up to save all of reality. But deviantart user lonefirewarrior has given us the next best thing. More »

#metroid For how old the character is, Samus' power armour is actually standing the test of time pretty well, with only a few minor modifications needing to be done over the decades. More »