Nintendo announces Metroid Ravenous 2D game for Switch 2

Nintendo announces Metroid Ravenous 2D game for Switch 2. The announcement gives gaming fans a fresh reason to pay attention, with the details coming from the report and its cited source material.

2026-09-09 10:53 EDT by Alex Mateo Game launches on January 28 Nintendo announced during the Nintendo Direct livestream on Wednesday Metroid Ravenous , a new 2D game in the Metroid series, on January 28 for Nintendo Switch 2. The company unveiled a trailer: Metroid Dread launched for Nintendo Switch in October 2021. This was the first 2D non-remake game in the Metroid series in over 19 years since the release of Metroid Fusion for Game Boy Advance in 2002. Nintendo released the Metroid Prime 4: Beyond game for Switch 2 and Switch in December 2025. Nintendo announced a Metroid Prime 4 game at E3 in 2017, but restarted its development in January 2019 at Retro Studios, Nintendo 's American subsidiary that developed the original Metroid Prime game. Source: Nintendo Direct livestream discuss this in the forum (8 posts) | bookmark/share with: News homepage / archives ⬈ ⬋ - + review Daughter of a Thousand Faces Volume 1 Comic Review Sep 9, 16:00 manhua What's a girl to do when she accidentally makes a pact with a demon in the depths of the Abyss? ― It's not easy being the odd child out, and that goes double when your father is an immortal cultivator with tens of other children who do live up to his expectations. Shen Yuhua, youngest daughter of the great immortal of Chaoyang Palace, was told as a little girl that she lacked any meaningful spiritual... convention Sound Euphonium Chief Director Tatsuya Ishihara on Portraying Genuine Emotions Sep 9, 13:00 anime For over a decade, Sound! Euphonium has taken viewers on a musical journey of hope and growth as it followed one high school

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A new 2D Metroid is the sort of announcement that can make a Nintendo showcase suddenly feel much more serious. Metroid Ravenous has the right format to deliver tense exploration, lonely corridors and the satisfying ritual of returning to an area with a power-up that changes everything. The cautious verdict is excitement with the brakes on: the name has promise, but the map, movement and atmosphere will decide whether it earns the suit.