A full decade before popular female leads like Lara Croft and Jill Valentine became mainstays of gaming, Samus Aran, the badass bounty hunter of the Metroid Series, made waves when her pixilated ...

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is officially here, and while most players are still plumbing its depths, an all-time classic power scaling conundrum has bubbled to the surface once again: Master Chief vs.

Since this franchise title makes up one half of the inspiration for the genre term “metroidvania,” you probably already know what a typical 2D Metroid game looks like, but I’ll break it down anyway.

Samus Aran, the science fiction protagonist in the Metroid series, is arguably Nintendo’s most mysterious character. She doesn’t speak at all. She wears a space warrior’s uniform with a reflective ...