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WWE superstar-turned-actor John Cena apparently told Nintendo how much he wanted a new 2D Metroid game years before Metroid Dread was released.  According to a tweet from @DanRyckert (opens in new tab), creative director at Giant Bomb and former WWE employee, back in 2017, John Cena took part in a …

The best Metroid games want you to get lost for a little while. The Metroid series is a bit of an outlier in Nintendo’s portfolio, with its focus on solitary adventures and hostile alien worlds. From our introduction to bounty hunter Samus Aran on the Famicom Disk System to her …

Metroid Dread is getting a free update with new modes today, followed by another update in April. Earlier today at a Nintendo Direct presentation, Nintendo announced that an update would be hitting Metroid Dread later today. This free update adds two new modes to the game: Dread difficulty, and Rookie …

Metroid Dread’s developer is working on a new third-person action-RPG set in a “dark fantasy world.” The new information comes from a press release (opens in new tab) from Digital Bros., an entertainment company that owns games publishing arm 505 Games. The parent company announced yesterday on November 30 that …

You’ve crowned Metroid Dread as this year’s winner of the Nintendo Game of Year at the Golden Joystick Awards. Nintendo has had an interesting year of releases, with end of year conversations dominated by the return to form of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. However, for your Nintendo Game of the Year, …

Update: The Metroid Dread patch notes actually had the opposite effect from what we originally reported, causing the gameplay timer to not count failed boss fights as it previously did in one specific instance. Here’s the wording from the patch, which we initially misinterpreted: “Fixed an issue where retrying after …

A Metroid Dread demo has been released by Nintendo as a Halloween celebration. Just earlier today on October 28, Nintendo announced that a brand new demo for Metroid Dread would be released immediately, through the tweet just below. There’s a special Samus Aran-themed pumpkin carving to celebrate the release of …

Metroid Dread speedrunners are beating the game in under 90 minutes flat. As first reported yesterday by Kotaku (opens in new tab), the Metroid Dread speedrunning community is on fire right now. If you head over to Speedrun.com (opens in new tab), a database where speedrunners from all over the …

A Metroid Dread game-closing bug has now been fixed, after Nintendo previously apologized for the error. Just yesterday on October 20, a brand new update was released for Metroid Dread, its first update since the game originally launched last week. Over on the Nintendo of America support page (opens in …

A Metroid Dread bug that can stop players from finishing the game under specific conditions will be fixed in an update coming this month. Nintendo addressed the bug in a new support post (opens in new tab). While not technically game-breaking, this bug can definitely be game-braking, forcibly closing the …