February 8, 2023: Nintendo has announced and released Metroid Prime Remastered for the Nintendo Switch digitally, with a physical version releasing on February 22, 2023 in North America and March 3, 2023 in other regions.
February 9, 2022: Nintendo has announced two free updates for Metroid Dread. The first one, releasing on February 9, 2022, will add Dread Mode and Rookie Mode, and the second one, releasing in April 2022, will add a Boss Rush mode.
December 9, 2021: Metroid Dreadhas won the award for Best Action/Adventure Game at The Game Awards.
Older generation gamers may remember a form of "manual saving" where predetermined passwords were used to call older states in the game. Extremely old NES games (such as Megaman, Caslevania 2: Simon's Quest, and more importantly Metroid) lacked internal batteries, meaning they lacked the ability to save, resorting to a special password input left behind by modern consoles. After dying or reaching certain check points, gamers were often given codes, expected to write them down. Just who is Justin Bailey? What is a Narpas Sword?