Samus by Luís Melo

Samus by Luís Melo

Artist’s Description: When I drew this picture I wanted to capture the old simple feel of the 8-bit game. It was nothing more than dark corridors, getting deeper and deeper, with strange colorful blobs of pixels as enemies. Your imagination did the rest.
I tried do do something in-between the very simple color and design of the original and what you can see today (I loosely referenced Samus’ suit from a couple of Metroid Prime pics), in search of something that isn’t an over-design of the concept and would still retain some of the crudeness of the 8-bit original impression I got as a kid.

Used with permission from artist

Metroid Quarantine Community Restructure

With the completion of our sister site, Magatroid, settling down we now have an outlet for theoretical discussion of the series. As such we are now loosening the focus of Metroid Quarantine from Metroid News to encompass all metroid related material. We have also opted for a smoother gradient design that gives the website a softer feel.

This ranges from highlighting Metroid based projects such as fangames to showcasing Metroid fanwork. On top of this is a recent resurgence in the amount of Metroid based news to report on, as such we are opening up to the possibility of turning MQ into a Metroid Based Blog (more…)

Metroid Prime 1 & 2 coming to Wii

Good news for the hopefulls. Ign reports that Nintendo is porting a total of seven games from the Gamecube to the Wii with motion control functionality. Notable among these are Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. Along with the two Metroid remakes DK Jungle Beat, Chibi Robo!, Mario Tennis, Pikmin, and Pikmin 2 will be making the jump as well.

There has been a bit of speculation about the possibility ever since Retro was noted as saying that they tested controls on a build of the Gamecube titles prior to Prime 3. This may prove an interesting take for new and old fans to the Prime series.