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May of 2009

 

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Original at YouTube external link    Mon, May 25    16 related articles

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By rss@youtube.com (SonamyYoshi) Author: SonamyYoshi Keywords: Metroid Prime Nintendo Retro Studios Gamecube Samus Aran Space Pirates Zebes Tallon Overworld Chozo Ruins Magmoor Cavers Phendrana Drifts Phazon Mines Impact Crater Added: May 25, 2009

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Original at YouTube external link    Thu, May 21

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By rss@youtube.com (SonamyYoshi) Author: SonamyYoshi Keywords: Metroid Prime Nintendo Retro Studios Gamecube Samus Aran Space Pirates Zebes Tallon Chozo Phendrana Drifts Added: May 21, 2009

Year 2009

 

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Original at YouTube external link    Sun, Mar 1

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By rss@youtube.com (GreatJuja) Author: GreatJuja Keywords: Metroid Prime 2 Echoes Metroid Torvus Bog Nintendo GameCube Wii Kenji Yamamoto Retro Studios cover guitar electric BlueJackG Alastair Campbell DJGrenola Juja DoD Dwelling Duels Added: March 1, 2009

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Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Feb 23    16 related articles

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By rss@youtube.com (JackPonder) The continuation of part one Author: JackPonder Keywords: Metroid Drawing Samus NIntendo Retro Studios Added: February 23, 2009

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Original at YouTube external link    Fri, Feb 20

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By rss@youtube.com (Zone355) Metroid Prime is back in a whole new style, thanks to Retro Studios! Author: Zone355 Keywords: Metroid Prime Wii Added: February 20, 2009

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Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Feb 17    16 related articles

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By rss@youtube.com (JackPonder) Author: JackPonder Keywords: Samus Aran Metroid Nintendo Retro Studios Gaming Heroine Bounty Hunter Added: February 17, 2009

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Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Jan 12

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By rss@youtube.com (cybermartyr87) Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is a first-person, action-adventure video game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the GameCube video game console. It is the seventh game in the Metroid series, a direct sequel to Metroid Prime, and the first game in the series with a multipla...

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Year 2009

 

Rate Metroid Prime Team Discusses Their Decade Of Samus, Ponders Series' Future

Original at Kotaku external link    Mon, Sep 21

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By Stephen Totilo Our interview was conducted over e-mail, with questions sent to Nintendo a few weeks ago and responded to by members of the Nintendo-owned Retro Studios in Austin, Texas as well as by the game's Japan-based producer, Kensuke Tanabe. The team had just finished the development of Metroid P...

Rate E3 2009: Nintendo Spills Beans on What to Expect from Metroid: Other M

Original at NintendoDS Advanced external link    Mon, Jun 15

 Michigan In answer to the question of why Metroid Prime developers Retro were not approached to help deliver the 3D experience he had envisioned in 2006, Sakamoto says that "Retro has their own approach toward Metroid games. They had their own producer. ...

Rate Other M to be a totally new experience

Original at Aussie-Nintendo.com external link    Sat, Jun 13

 Australia Our goal is to provide the most interesting gameplay and deliver the most cool Metroid ever. Retro has their own approach toward Metroid games. They had their own producer. Their approach to Metroid games has traditionally been the FPA — first person ...

Rate Nintendo: Other M Will be A "Metroid Unlike Anything Ever Experienced Before"

Original at Kotaku external link    Fri, Jun 12

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By Stephen Totilo Retro, the Nintendo-owned, Texas-based team responsible for the well-reviewed 3D Metroid Prime games, two of which were out by then, was, curiously, not an option. "Retro has their own approach toward Metroid games," Sakamoto said. "They had their own producer. Their approach to Metroi...

Rate Retro: Nintendo Entertainment System

Original at Fragland.net external link    Mon, Jun 8

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 Belgium Nintendo later on restyled the 8-bit machine for the West and sold millions of it thanks to the giant library of first class software. The NES was the home base of the most respected franchises ever - just think of Super Mario, Metroid and Zelda - that ...

Rate E309 | Retro Studios Helped with Red Steel 2 Control

Original at Cubed3 external link    Sat, Jun 6

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Ubisoft has revealed a close bond with Metroid Developer Retro Studios to get an insight into how to get fp Wii controls right. One of the major issues players found with Red Steel wasn't the game itself, but more so how it was played - choppy movement ...

Rate Top 10 Things Everyone's Gonna Want From E3

Original at BallerStatus.com external link    Sat, Jun 6

Proving that there's more than one M in Nintendo's arsenal, Metroid fans also had something to cheer about from this year's E3. Firstly, there's the “Wii-make” of Retro Studios' Metroid Prime series, all three episodes of the GameCube trilogy in one ... IGN

Rate Things Unmentioned At The Nintendo Press Conference

Original at Kotaku Australia external link    Wed, Jun 3    2 related articles

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 Australia Retro Studios: Nintendo's main studio in the United States has made some superbly well-reviewed Metroid games and is polishing a compilation disc of all three that they made. So maybe it was time, we thought, for Nintendo to tell us at E3 2009 what ...

Rate Blast video game staff E3 predictions, hopes, and thoughts.

Original at Blast external link    Fri, May 22

 MA IGN has been saying that Retro Studios (Metroid Prime) has something in the works that will rock all of our socks off, so maybe E3 is when we will see that unveiled. First off, I cannot fathom a more exciting and alluring event for fans of the video ...

Rate Hands-on: Killzone 2

Original at Blast external link    Sat, Feb 21

This is something that worked very well for Nintendo and Retro Studios when Metroid Prime 3 arrived on the Wii, as you felt like the Wii Remote was an extension of your own arm and hand, that you were actually controlling the movement of Samus’ hand. ...

Rate Ex-Metroid Staff Form Studio, Sign With EA

Original at Wired Blogs external link    Mon, Sep 15

By Chris Kohler Remember those key members of the Metroid Prime staff who departed Retro Studios earlier this year? Looks like they're joining up with Electronic Arts. Kotaku has spoken with the trio of evacuees, who tell the blog that they have set... Metroid Prime Devs Eye 360, PS3 [Kotaku]

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Original at Kotaku external link    Mon, Sep 15

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By Brian Crecente Retro Studios was founded in Austin, Texas in 1998. In 2000, Nintendo gave the studio the license to the Metroid franchise to help recreate the game for the Gamecube. In 2002 the developer relased Metroid Prime. In 2004 they released Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and last year released Metroid Pri...

Rate Today in Joystiq: May 21, 2008

Original at Joystiq external link    Wed, May 21

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By Ross Miller Filed under: Retro Take a look at this recreation of 16-bit Samus Aran "made entirely of stone mosaic blocks which were hand-nipped to form a several hundred pixel depiction," according to the Flickr page. Now let's see how we can use mosaic blocks to recreate Metroid Prime-era Samus ... now t...

Rate Retro Review: Super Metroid

Original at Garden of WiiDS external link    Mon, Apr 14

By abates17 As the first Metroid game released for the Super Nintendo system, the designers of Super Metroid had a legacy to live up to. The original Metroid for the NES introduced non-linear gameplay on a large open world, into which the player (as bounty hunter Samus Aran) is dropped with very few abi...

Rate Ask Joystiq: hunting, singing, hating, saving

Original at Joystiq external link    Thu, Mar 27

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By Scott Jon Siegel Filed under: Culture, Features, Retro This week on Ask Joystiq, we tackle Smash Bros Brawl's quirky saving preferences, universal disdain for Metroid II, the Smash Bros Brawl theme song, and the hunt for a classic Apple II platformer.

Rate Retro Profile: Metroid (NES)

Original at Infendo external link    Sun, Jan 20

By tips@infendo.com That game, of course, is Metroid– the first game to introduce us all to the cybernetic bounty hunter Samus Aran. Metroid proved to be a truly inventive title, breaking away from some of the usual elements found in most games of that era ...

Year 2007

 

Rate Retro talks Samus in Brawl; expanding Metroid Prime world

Original at Playstatic external link    Mon, Oct 8

By Andrew Macarthy With Metroid Prime 3: Corruption raking in the cash for Nintendo and Retro Studios in North America (and with the PAL and Japanese launch of the Nintendo Wii title still to launch), thoughts are already being directed towards the future for the Metroid series and its protagonist, Samus. A...

Rate Metroid Prime 3 ‘Dread’ reference a ‘coincidence’

Original at Infendo external link    Thu, Sep 27

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By tips@infendo.com Lovers of a Metroid 2D revival were hit with a setback today as a reference first pointed out by IGN’s Matt Casamassina was squelched in an MTV interview with Retro. MTV: What’s the story behind the apparent reference in “Metroid Prime 3″ to “Metroid Dread,” the rumored but never-confirme...

Year 2006

 

Rate Metroid Corruption Hands-On Leaves Me Craving More

Original at Kotaku external link    Sun, Sep 17

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By Brian Crecente Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Format: Wii Launch Date: TBA ESRB: RP (Rating Pending) Game Type: First-Person Adventure Accessories: Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers Players: 1 Developer: Retro Studios Characters: Samus, Dark Samus, the Galactic Federation and new bounty hunters.

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