'Metroid Dread' Is Headed to Nintendo Switch With Two-Dimensional Alien Battles

During its E3 Direct showcase, Nintendo announced that the Metroid series will arrive on Nintendo Switch this fall in a two-dimensional gameplay, titled Metroid Dread.A side-scrolling successor to Metroid Fusion, the new game follows intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran as she lands on planet ZDR to explore a suspicious transmission sent to the Galactic Federation. Once there, Aran discovers that the remote planet has been overtaken by a swarm of vicious aliens and fronts the task of overcomin...