For gaming Australians, AusGamers has a handy recurring news post outlining the week's major releases at retail Down Under, this week including the likes of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Brutal Legend and Metroid Prime Trilogy, among others.
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Nintendo tied up its "Metroid Prime" franchise nicely with their recent "Trilogy" boxed set, and the company currently has its sights set on "Metroid: Other M," a 2D-ish return to classic "Metroid" gameplay. That project left the "Prime" games' developers at Retro behind to partner with Tecmo. Certain word choices by developers in a recent interview, however, seem to to indicate that future "Prime" games may still be possible down the pipe.

"As all I take part in is the 'Prime' series, I am not capable of commenting on the whole 'Metroid' series," Retro Studios producer Kensuke Tanabe told Kotaku. "But we will keep considering multiplayer for the 'Prime' series. For instance, I think I can come up with some unique ideas using the Morph Ball, which is a specific skill of Samus'."
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IGN AU has just received its copy of Metroid Prime Trilogy, the Wii one-disc compilation of the last three Retro Studios Metroid Prime games. The games themselves have been marginally improved and tweaked for Wii release - but the most curious change so far was Nintendo of America's laudable decision to go with a very slick steel-book casing for the release, to celebrate and highlight the importance and quality of this series.
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As it would appear, there have been several graphical effects removed from the Wii version of the Metroid Prime.
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In the release of Metroid Prime Trilogy for Wii, Nintendo censored a curse word from Metroid Prime 3: Corruption in the re-release.
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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.
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The developers over at Retro Studios, behind the creation of Metroid Prime Trilogy, have provided a full list of changes made to Metroid 1 and 2.
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It looks like if you pre-ordered Metroid Prime Trilogy at GameStop to get the pre-order poster, you might not be getting one, and instead get $10 compensation for the loss.
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Weekly Game Releases - 16th – 22nd August for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PSP and DS.
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IGN journey to Retro Studios to tell the story behind one of the greatest videogame trilogies ever developed.
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ARS: Metroid Prime Trilogy brings all three later-generation Metroid games together in one package, and adds motion-controls to Metroid Prime 1 and 2. It's a good package for $50, and for those gamers who haven't played the games, this gives them a chance to get the entire experience in one package. One minor annoyance, though: you can only play using the motion controls.

The game landed on our doorstep a few days ago, hot off the presses, and I couldn't wait to find out how the first two Metroid Prime titles played with the motion controls. The results were pleasantly surprising-look for a more in-depth review early next week-but I was taken aback when the instruction manual noted that the GameCube controller wouldn't work on any of the games.
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Rock arrangements of classic songs from Metroid, Metroid 2, Super Metroid, and the Metroid Prime series? That's what Metroid Metal did, and next month, the band is releasing their first studio recording of their best tracks. They recently posted a trailer to YouTube and are taking pre-orders for the limited release album.
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Today's new additions on the Wii's Nintendo Channel brings a downloadable demo for the Nintendo DS game, Shorts, and a few new videos. Among the videos is a must see Metroid Prime Trilogy Developer video with Retro Studios. The 7-minute Metroid Prime Trilogy Developer video includes producers and designers from Retro Studios talking about what's been enhanced in next week's release of Metroid Prime Trilogy.

Here's what's new on the Nintendo Channel video list:

- Flipnote Studio Info Video
- Nintendo DSi Shop Info Video
- Metroid Prime Trilogy Developer's Voice
- PictureBook Games: Pop-Up Pursuit Info Video
- Madden NFL 10 - Spotlight Moments Video
- Fossil Fighters - Battle Tutorial
- Fossil Fighters - TV Spot

New Nintendo DS demo download:

- Shorts demo
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Nintendo has 5000 copies of Metroid (NES, Virtual Console) to give away.

To be eligible, you must be one of 5000 people to register a copy of Metroid Prime Trilogy on the European Club Nintendo website. You must also have previously registered Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes or Metroid Prime 3: Corruption there.
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IGN has brought us today the confirmation that your old Corruption saves won't be compatible with the upcoming compilation Metroid Prime Trilogy from Nintendo.
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The NGamer magazine has brought some interesting review scores in its latest issue. Check them out.
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Nintendo has unleashed a ton of new screenshots for its upcoming release of Metroid Prime Trilogy.
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Nintendeals writes:

"Of the big 3 consoles, the Wii typically has the most releases, and August is no different...

Highlights for the month of August 2009 include Metroid Prime Trilogy Collector's Edition, Madden NFL 10, Spectrobes: Origins, plus a few more gems...

What titles are you looking forward to?"
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TGS writes: "Nintendo have confirmed that the Metroid Prime Trilogy will be avaliable in Europe on September 4th. It will include all three games in the series and an artbook."
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The Metroid Prime Trilogy for the Wii gets even sweeter. Check out additional images of the box art from the upcoming Metroid Prime Trilogy here. You can see more of the collector's tin, in addition to a newly announced pre-order bonus, a Metroid Prime Trilogy poster. There's also details of an included art booklet.

Details on the Metroid Prime Trilogy art booklet:
"Metroid Prime Trilogy comes with a Metroid art booklet. The art booklet contains 5 double sided panels printed with metallic ink on high quality premium gloss paper. The booklet contains development, sketch, and concept art accompanied by the history of Metroid and Samus. Unfolded, the total booklet length is just under 36 inches."

This is the first truly collector's edition game bundle from Nintendo for the Wii system. Don't miss out on the opportunity to score a few extra items. GameStop is even throwing in a t-shirt of Metroid Prime Trilogy as a pre-order incentive.
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