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Aug 13, 2008

Speed Gamers promote a 72 hours Metroid Marathon

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GC - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - Speed Gamers promote a 72 hours Metroid Marathon

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
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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"
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Oct 15, 2007

The History of Metroid

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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 ... » Read More

Feb 20, 2007

Zero Suit Samus in your bedroom

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Fans of Metroid Prime's sassy heroine (or rather its sassy heroine when her armor falls off) finally have their prayers answered - she's been made into a limited edition set of figurines. Sporting her rather fetching "Zero Suit" as seen at the end of Metroid Prime 2 and in the brilliant Super Smash Bros Brawl trailer, she'll instantly bring some sunshine to even the dullest of bedrooms. Apparently she "comes armed with her signature pistol and has curves in all the right places!" Easy, tiger. ... » Read More

Sep 15, 2006

Newsdump

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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 ... » Read More

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