Nintendo makes August the month of Metroid

In order to generate buzz for upcoming Wii FPS Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Nintendo has put up a new Metroid Prime 3 preview channel on the Wii (under Wii Ware), currently host to several preview videos and trailers. The game itself is scheduled to launch on August 27, 2007.

What’s even more exciting is Joystiq’s reporting that two classic Metroid titles will be available on the Virtual Console for the festivities: The original Metroid will be arriving on August 13, 2007 for 500 points, with SNES masterpiece Super Metroid landing for 800 points on August 20, 2007.

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption has some big space boots to fill as the first Wii installment of the excellent adventure/FPS Prime series that started life on the Gamecube. The new title features Wii-ified controls with which to blast aliens and a new phazon corruption mechanic.

If you’ve never caught Samus fever before, now is a perfect time to start. Seems like Nintendo is finally catching on to how this whole Internet contraption works and I couldn’t be happier.

Read [Joystiq] Also Read [Nintendojo]