James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

August 6th, 2026 was the 40th anniversary of Metroid, one of the few videogames in history to be so influential it has a whole genre named (at least partially) after it. You'd be forgiven for not ...

Nintendo may have let Metroid‘s birthday slip by unremarked, but a bunch of fan creators didn’t, commemorating the game’s 40th anniversary by releasing Metroid Prime Origins, a 2D remake of Metroid ...

Developed by Team Ninja and released on the Nintendo Wii sixteen years ago, Metroid: Other M was an attempt to bring a more ...