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Nintendo DS: The first five years (Feature)

Nov 20, 2009

Whoa, hang a second. The DS has been around for five years? Strange as it sounds, it’s true – the DS launched in the US on November 21, 2004 to almost immediate success, and is well on its way to outselling every other major gaming platform in history. Current numbers put the DS (and its various incarnations) at nearly 115 million units sold worldwide, a runaway lead over Sony’s estimated 60 million PSPs ...

Metroid Prime Still Has A Future (News)

Nov 17, 2009

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption may not be the last game in the Prime series. With Other M on the way next year, some might have thought that the Prime series had come to an end but, as Nintendo's Kensuke Tanabe told ONM, the series may still have a future.

Asked whether Samus will ever return to DS, Tanabe (who oversaw Retro Studios' series for Nintendo) said "We are always planning to make new games in the Metroid Prime series. Depending on the timing and the situation, we cannot deny the possibility of realising it on DS or DSi."

The Top 7… Tasteful game heroines (Feature)

Nov 9, 2009

Like comic books and movies, videogames tend to present an exaggerated representation of men and women. Dudes are typically muscle-bound meatheads with powerful jaw lines and a thorough understanding of all forms of combat, while women generally have back-breaking chests and dress like strippers regardless of their profession. ...

411mania: The Release List for the Week of August 24, 2009 (News)

Aug 26, 2009

411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include Dissidia: Final Fantasy, Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Cursed Mountain, and Harvest Moon: Magical Melody.

Weekly Releases: 23th - 29nd August (News)

Aug 22, 2009

Weekly Game Releases - 16th – 22nd August for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PSP and DS.

If video game characters were Pokemon (Feature)

Jul 3, 2009

Ever wondered what it would be like to have video game characters in your Pokemon party? Why choose boring old Bulbasaur when you can choose a beautiful Kasumi? Or a level 50 Sackboy?

We've given 21 game characters the Pokemon treatment, with four moves to choose from and some evolutionary states too.

Who would you choose? ...

411mania's Release List for the Week of February 16, 2009 (News)

Feb 19, 2009

411mania gives a rundown on this week's game releases. Highlights include Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?, Street Fighter IV, DoDonPachi Daioujou Black Label Extra, Shooting Love, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, Metroid Prime Wii.

Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? (PSP)
Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? is one of the best platformers I've played in years thanks to it's tight controls and above average presentation. However, this game is definitely not for everyone. In fact, I'm pretty sure that only hardcore platformer junkies and people with infinite amounts of patience will get past the first three or four stages without developing a desire to throw their PSPs at a wall in rage. But if you can hang on, getting through the game can be quite satisfying and is an achievement that is worth bragging about.

Street Fighter IV (PS3, 360)
It isn't necessary for me to go in-depth since every other site is already doing it. I will, however, bring to your attention one of the coolest features SFIV has - the Arcade Request system. Basically, instead of watching a static screen while waiting for someone to challenge you online, this system allows you to play against the computer and seamlessly accept a challenge when one comes your way. It's like going to an arcade and playing against the CPU until someone gets the nerve to plunk down fifty cents to take you on. If you set it to accept only Player Matches (unranked) you can keep things going by rematching or, if you don't want to play the person again, you can quickly and easily go back to arcade mode after your match and continue on with the CPU until you get another challenge. It's hard to believe that it's taken Capcom this long to implement such a system. I can only hope that SNK does the same thing in its home version of KOF XII.

DoDonPachi Daioujou Black Label Extra (360 Import)
Every shooter needs its own hook to stand out. While Trigger Heart has its grapple syst...

Metroid Prime: Hunters Glitches X (DS) (News)

Jan 23, 2009

Metroid Prime: Hunters is a first-person shooter and adventure game created exclusively for the Nintendo DS, developed by NST (Nintendo Software Technology), a first-party developer for Nintendo, based in Redmond in North America, and released in 2006. Like its predecessor Metroid Prime, Nintendo has dubbed it a first-person adventure rather than a first-person shooter due to the large amount of exploration elements in the game, classic to any Nintendo title.

Metroid Prime: Hunters / Moon comparison (Video)

Jan 23, 2009

The first handheld shooter that delivers everything the big, bad console boys offer - and it's all free on the Wi-Fi Connection.

The Top 7... games we want announced in 2009 (Feature)

Jan 19, 2009

By now you’re probably aware of all the top-tier games coming out in the first three months of 2009, but isn’t there a little part of you that wants to know what the devs are working on next? We sure as hell do, and have already made up our minds about what should be unveiled before the year is out – most of them games we already suspect are on their way but have so far remained hidden. ...

Speed Gamers promote a 72 hours Metroid Marathon (News)

Aug 13, 2008

Speed Gamers reports:

"The 72 Hour Metroid Marathon starts on Augusts 15th @6pm cst. We will be raising money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The marathon will be streamed live via webcam on our website. The webcam feed will give you both a view of the games we will be playing and also a view of the action going on in the room. We will give out prizes following each game to viewers regardless of where they live.

The Game list is : (In the order we will be playing them in, not in chronological order)
Metroid, Metroid Zero mission, Metroid II: Return of Samus, Metroid Prime1, Metroid Prime 2, Metroid Prime Hunters, Metroid Prime 3, Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion
[...]
Retro Studios has recently given their blessing and will be generously donating our grand prize, a copy of Metroid Prime 3 (Wii) signed by the development team. We are very excited to have their help and will hopefully do justice to the series they helped build"

More Metroid E3 evidence (News)

Jul 3, 2008

Recently we all saw Retro studios redesign their website with a new look, only weeks before E3.

Now this week we saw...

Nintendo's Big Secret: Highly Improbable Edition (Feature)

May 21, 2008

So, Nintendo’s got a massive E3 announcement waiting in the wings. But as we detailed yesterday, not two years out the Wii has already blown its wad, unleashing Mario, Zelda, Metroid and Brothers Smash. It really makes you wonder what exactly they’ve got left to pull out of their puffy red hat. Sure, we can speculate about the likelihood of Kid Icarus and Star Fox until we’re blue in the wrist, but never with 100% ...

The world's best counterfeit games (Feature)

Mar 27, 2008

Not happy with what the devs are doing with your favourite games? Then let the gamers take over production. ...

Metroid Prime Cosplay - Jenni Källberg Kicks Butt as Samus Aran (News)

Nov 23, 2007

Jenni Källberg in an amazing series of photos depicting her as Metriod Prime's Samus Aran.

The History of Metroid (Feature)

Oct 15, 2007

Oct 23, 2007 The Metroid series has always been a victim of bad timing. It's one of the most critically acclaimed franchises in gaming. But thanks to dodgy release dates, internal politics and Nintendo's own disbelief in the franchise that's never quite rivalled the mighty Mario and Zelda series. Wrong place, wrong time? 1986; Atari was old news and the NES had successfully prevented the industry from spiralling into an imploding crash. 33-year-old Shigeru Miyamoto's hot-selling Super Mario ...

Retrobot presents: Hardcore games (Feature)

Aug 7, 2007

This is hardcore. Or so everyone says. But what is "hardcore?" To us gamers, it means the kind of game that serious gamers devote their time to. You know, hundreds of hours of time. The kind of game that kept Granny away from gaming until Wii came along. It's about depth - of learning and understanding a game before truly mastering it. Hardcore games present the greatest (and often longest) challenges, yet also the biggest payoffs, assuming you understand how they work. Of course, ...

Halo vs Metroid - Animation 06-13-07 (Video)

Jun 13, 2007

The first handheld shooter that delivers everything the big, bad console boys offer - and it's all free on the Wi-Fi Connection.

Metroid Prime Hunters (Review)

Dec 6, 2006

What's this? A handheld, first-person shooter that crams in all the headshots, layered level designs and multiplayer options of the typical Xbox Live title? And it's on the touch-screen powered Nintendo DS? If we hadn't played it ourselves we would barely believe it. But it's true. Metroid Prime Hunters takes the usually explorative, space-faring series online in the biggest possible way: its stylus-and-L-button control scheme (think PC's mouse-and-keyboard setup) scorches every other portable ...

Holiday Buyers' Guide 2006 - Nintendo DS (Feature)

Dec 6, 2006

What began as a bizarre shot in the dark has fast become one of the biggest success stories in video games. Even though its first six months were rough and questionable, the DS currently owns the handheld market, and with good reason. There's literally something for everyone on the dual-screened portable, and its beautiful cosmetic makeover (known as the DS Lite) made the device all the more palatable to hardcore and casual gamers alike. With its mixture of brain teasing puzzle games, ...

Cool online features for Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam DS (News)

Oct 2, 2006

In-game voice chat, downloadable goals, sk8 crews, and others will be included.

According to a recent email sent to Sk8land community members, the incoming Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam DS will feature a couple online features new to the Nintendo DS. One of the most impressive is the in-game voice chat, by which Vicarious Visions means you can talk to your friends during gameplay and not only in the pre-game lobby like Metroid Prime: Hunters. Read on for more!

Newsdump (News)

Sep 15, 2006

God Save the Wii Our friends on the other side of the pond got their Wii news today, but it was a bit of good and bad. While Sony will make Brit gamers wait until 2007 for their PS3s, the Wii will hit UK shores on December 8 for £180. That's still more than the US price if you work out the exchange rate and it's just £20 less than an Xbox 360 Core pack. Even the UK Virtual Console games will be the equivalent of a few bucks more expensive than in the US and Japan. And while the ...

What the hell were we thinking?!?! (Feature)

Aug 1, 2006

Chaos, mayhem, uproar and riots. That's what GamesRadar seems to have triggered with last week's feature, "The Ten Greatest Years in Videogame History ". We might as well have burned down the internet, for all the email and forum flaming we inspired. Some folks praised us, some wanted us crucified, and one called us "wankers", ignoring that the feature only covered the US market. Granted, we set ourselves up. We knew this feature was so vast, so subjective and so dependent upon reader ...

Metroid Prime Hunters - Tools of the Trade (Feature)

Mar 16, 2006

An online, handheld deathmatch is about to take over your Nintendo DS. Metroid Prime Hunters is just a few days away, and its seven tough-as-nails bounty hunters (heroine Samus included) are going to do everything in their armor-cracking, shape-shifting power to put you under. Curious as to how it is you're going down? From the official Hunters website: "Samus Aran is well known throughout the galaxy as an efficient and experienced bounty hunter. Few other hunters can compete with Samus' long ...

Metroid Prime Hunters - DS gameplay (Video)

Mar 16, 2006

The first handheld shooter that delivers everything the big, bad console boys offer - and it's all free on the Wi-Fi Connection.

Metroid Prime Hunters - Hands On (Preview)

Mar 4, 2006

Other than a roster of all new, alien bounty hunters and an emphasis on touch screen, multiplayer deathmatching, all we could say about Metroid Prime Hunters before today was that we'd jump into the shadiest fight club around to get our hands on it. Now, after spending some quality time torching, bombing and bashing three other players in Wi-Fi match ups, we can safely say the wait will be worth it. The first aspect to zero in on is how non-traditional the fragging is. The six hunters and ...

Metroid Prime Hunters (Preview)

Mar 3, 2006

Hard as it is to believe now, Metroid's switch from side-scrolling corridor sprint to first person adventure freaked everyone out. Running and gunning, after all, was never the core of heroine Samus' purview. Today, though, the series is one of Nintendo's most successful, and the bounty hunter couldn't be in a better position to try new things. Case in point: Metroid Prime Hunters is a fast action shooter that plays down the series' deliberately paced gameplay. Forget searching for clues; ...

Prime view of Hunters (News)

Feb 15, 2006

Nintendo has released a bundle of Metroid Prime: Hunters shots as the DS action game's release looms closer. Helmeted heroine Samus Aran's latest adventure has her attempting to unravel the mystery behind messages transmitted by the Alimbics, an ancient intergalactic race that was thought ...

Metroid Prime: Hunters (Preview)

Feb 15, 2006

Metroid Prime Hunters is broken up into a series of specific missions, which you receive from the Galactic Federation before each level.The game's story basically revolves around an artefact hunt; technology of vast power that's scattered around the galaxy. Using her ship, space hunter Samus will need to travel around the system to search for them. However, these artefacts are not only sought after by Samus, but also by a number of other bounty hunters. Each bounty hunter is nastier than the ...

Metroid Prime Hunters (Preview)

Jan 11, 2006

Metroid Prime Hunters is broken up into a series of specific missions, which you receive from the Galactic Federation before each level. The game's story basically revolves around an artefact hunt - technology of vast power that's scattered around the galaxy. Using her ship, Samus will need to travel around the system to search for them. However, these artefacts are not only sought after by Samus, but also by a number of other bounty hunters. Each bounty hunter is nastier than the last, ...

Nintendo DS: Gargantuan round-up! (News)

Oct 7, 2004

Just as we were recovering from Ninty president Satoru Iwata's announcement about 'game sharing' (more on this below), we were buried under another avalanche of DS screenshots. Yesterday we posted a featuring the likes of Mario Kart and Super Mario 64 and today we find similar quality in Metroid Prime: Hunters and we even have two superb movies of AAA titles in action.Supporting the main act of Hunters, this batch of pics include such delights as Yoshi's Touch and Go, Pokemon Dash, Wario Ware, ...

Metroid Prime: Hunters DS shots (News)

May 12, 2004

We have the first images of Metroid Prime: Hunters, Samus's DS outing. As you can see, Nintendo's new two-screen handheld appears to be ideal, and we confidently expect this to be the best of the first generation of DS titles.Hunters does an impressive job of aping its Gamecube predecessor's visuals and the controls use the stylus to choose weapons, morph or, with a quick poke of the screen, fire, while the pad or stick are used for movement and shoulder buttons lock-on.The version of Metroid ...

Metroid Prime Hunters FAQ (FAQ)

Aug 21, 2008

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Shadow World Glitch (Glitch)

Mar 6, 2008

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Hunters' Special Abilities (Hint)

Mar 30, 2007