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

Magical Blush, the top-down elemental Metroidvania from Brazilian indie Alkacer Game Studio, launched on PC at $14.99 on ...

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

From as far back as the early 1980s, metroidvanias have been and still are evolving to entertain the masses, so here we honor ...

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

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

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

The original Metroid and Castlevania both turn 40 years old this fall. As the two series most responsible for creating the “metroidvania,” we’re taking this occasion to take a comprehensive view of ...

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 ...

The new Castlevania game succeeds in being both familiar and fresh, and it's easily the prettiest title I saw at Gamescom ...