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We explore five bizarre gaming-mysteries, like flying dolphins and spike-resistant boots.

News Blips for Wedneday, December 14, 2011: Nintendo reveals the full list of 3DS Game Boy Advance Ambassador games; South Park's fifth player class is "Jew;" EA announces free-to-play Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances; and more.

If a gamer in Japan were to, right now, order all 10 Ambassador GBA games, how much would it cost?

Metroids: ultimate threat or tool of other species?

My Summer of Arcade continues with Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. It looks and sounds like a winner, but it lacks the depth, fun and longevity normally associated with Metroidvania games.

Super Metroid is a SNES classic, claustrophobic and tense, but since then the series has followed a different path. Is it time that Samus returned to the dark?

The NES is now officially 25 years old, a with it a gigantic library of classics. How have they aged in the last 20 to 25 years?

My glorious attempt at an introduction.

Sixteen years ago, Super Metroid defined a genre that was badly in need of a standard bearer.

We sat down with Nintendo of America's localization producer Nate Bihldorff to learn more about a more realistic Samus, why they wouldn't give the same treatment to Link or Mario, and whether we'll see our star in a wii bikini. (You do know who's developing this game, don't you?)

Have action/adventure games dropped the adventure part in favor of more action?