The Merlies, launching September 29 on PC, Mac, and Nintendo Switch, strips combat from the Metroidvania genre and replaces ...

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

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 ...

Check out the Launch Trailer for Magical Blush, a top-down magic-based action Metroidvania developed by Alkacer Game Studio.

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...