These eight Xbox 360 metroidvania games respect players' time by featuring brief stories, easy-to-understand puzzles, and ...

The Castlevania series established a gaming genre tied the most to dark or atmospheric settings, a theme that one title ...

This Wednesday’s September 9 Nintendo Direct was packed with announcements, both big and small. Without a doubt, one of the ...

Happy birthday, Metroid. Now let's all celebrate by forgetting the term "metroidvania" as thoroughly as we've all forgotten ...

Developer Aeternum Game Studios announced Metroidvania game, Aeterna Lucis, will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo [...] ...

The original Metroid and Castlevania both turn 40 years old this fall. As the two series most responsible for creating the ...

If you're tired of the typical recommendations, check out these ten Metroidvanias games most haven’t played, but definitely ...

Already, players have noticed that protagonist Rose Belmont in Belmont’s Curse has access to tools both familiar and new to ...

Between bad concepts and inadequate executions, the Metroidvania genre is full of examples of how not to do a boss fight.

Following the leak, prolific gaming journalists Tom Henderson and Jeff Grubb confirmed that they, too, have heard rumors about the God of War spinoff project. “Hearing a lot of scuttlebutt about the 2 ...

Aeterna Lucis is a Metroidvania focused on fast-paced combat, exploration, and an engaging story, and it was originally ...

If there is one thing that people who make and play video games love more than video games, it’s labels. People love to label a game, to invent a genre, to categorize and sort and declare some kind of ...