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Our Message Board is alight today with two bits of news regarding Metroid: Other M which have begun to surface in Japan!

The first is an update to Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s official Metroid website in Japan. Upon visiting, you'll hear a woman's voice which says, translated from Japanese: "A dream. It's as if I was watching a playback of a tragedy that really happened." There are numerous ways to speculate the meaning of this, though I'll be content to leave this mystery up in the air for a while longer. The site also includes some rather interesting music, though I'll suggest that you visit it and hear for yourself! Thanks to marumari of our forum for providing us this information!

The second bit of news, as reported by GoNintendo (thanks Megatron0016) and Kotaku among others, is of a reported Summer 2010 release date for Other M in Japan.

UPDATE: The Japanese Metroid homepage says the game is expected to see a release in Summer 2010, so it is OFFICIAL - the game WILL come out this year. Note that Metroid Prime 3 (along with several other hot Nintendo titles like Super Mario Sunshine and F-Zero GX) was released in late August, so it's possible Other M will see a similar US release. However, there's still no official indication of when there would be a release for Europe, North America or Australia. Hopefully it will be a Fall 2010 release at the very latest!

Fingers crossed.

-Jesse D