Metroid Database.com

Hmm, this sure is interesting!! In a recent edition of "Ask Dan" on www.nintendo.com, this question was asked and answered:

"Q: I read in Ultra Game Players that Eidos Interactive would develop games such as the ever-popular Tomb Raider for the Nintendo 64 except for one thing... Nintendo has to ask them to. Does Nintendo, for some odd reason, not want Tomb Raider on their system? --[email address snipped--TJ]

"A: I read that article in UGP too, and that quote didn't quite make sense to me. Nintendo won't ask a company to develop a game unless we want to publish it as a "first party" game, that is, under the Nintendo label. Nothing against Tomb Raider, but it just doesn't really have the feel of a Nintendo title. If Nintendo wanted to do a game like that, why not make it with Samus? In other words, we have out [sic] own characters to develop."

[Remainder of response snipped]

...Now I'm certainly not saying that this is confirmation of a new Samus adventure, but it sounds like a tiny hint to me! I was thinking that the new Metroid game should play kinda like Tomb Raider anyways...but better, of course!

--TJ