Metroid: Other M producer, Yoshio Sakamoto, didn’t go easy on his development partners.

With Metroid: Other M and Bleach: Heat the Soul 7 being the only two significant new releases in the Japanese market, the week of August 30th – September 5th was a relatively slow one.

Other M’s writing really isn’t as terrible as you might think. In fact, it does quite a few things right. [ENDGAME SPOILERS INSIDE]

We took Metroid: Other M for a speed-boosted test run. Twice. How did it perform?

A few words before our Metroid: Other M playtest goes up.

Team Ninja reveal they were literally shaving mere seconds off movies in places in order to be able to squeeze the game’s data onto the disc.

Nintendo are going out of their way to promote the title as a new-age Famicom game in Japan.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata arranges an audience with Yoshio Sakamoto, Yosuke Hayashi and Ryuzi Kitaura to talk Metroid: Other M. And tears. Lots of tears.

Contrary to what Metroid: Fusion might have made you believe, Other M doesn’t sound like there was any sort of romantic spark between Samus and Adam.

Team Ninja made finishing moves for Samus Aran to use in Metroid: Other M. Get close to a near dead enemy and press the beam button to make Samus grab the alien and fire a charged blast at its face.

The “M” in Metroid: Other M could stand for “more cutscenes.” Metroid: Other M opens with a video of Samus Aran fighting Mother Brain moments before a Metroid larva flies in and picks Samus up.

Whatever happened to Anthony in this Metroid: Other M trailer?

Samus sounds oddly…young…in this Metroid: Other M footage from Comic-Con.

Nintendo, Team Ninja and D-Rockets give a little insight into the development details of Metroid: Other M.

Comic-Con attendees set your Dragon Quest IX to tag mode while walking by Nintendo’s booth. Nintendo is giving away a treasure map to Mortamor during the show.

Yet another trailer for Metroid.