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Nintendo May Have More Metroid Prime Primed For DS

10:20AM Michael McWhertor | Metroid Prime 3: Corruption may have wrapped up the GameCube-to-Wii trilogy, but fans of first-person adventuring in the suit of Samus Aran may be able to look forward to future Prime games. More »

Development Studios That Don’t Put Out Many Games Might Be Busy

6:00AM Stephen Totilo | Do you ever wonder why some of gaming’s top development studios put out so few games? I know, I know. Making games is hard. But here’s what happens when you ask the Metroid Prime developers that question. More »

Metroid Prime Team Discusses Decade Of Samus, Ponders Future

3:40AM Stephen Totilo | Following the recent release of Metroid Prime Trilogy, members of Nintendo’s development teams in Texas and Japan answered Kotaku’s questions about what the Metroid Prime series got right, what it missed and more. They even hinted at Prime’s future. More »

Metroid Prime Trilogy Lost Its ‘Damn’

11:00AM Owen Good | In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Admiral Dane expresses his frustration with the Space Pirates by letting out a rather mild profanity. “Damn,” to be precise. In the Metroid Prime Trilogy, which released a week ago, it’s been scrubbed. More »

Metroid Prime: Trilogy Unlockables Dust Off Nintendo History, Detours

8:40AM Stephen Totilo | PS3 Slims. World of Warcraft expansions. Is there any news for the Wii gamer these days? A copy of Metroid Prime: Trilogy arrived in the office this week. I’ve had little time to investigate it, but did discover this. More »

Metroid Trilogy Preview: The Game So Nice, You Can Play It Thrice

2:00AM AJ Glasser | Surprise! The rumours that all three Metroid Prime games would receive a compilation release in the US with the “Wii-applied” control scheme were true. More »

Metroid Prime Devs Eye 360, PS3 for Future Games

7:19AM Brian Crecente | Three of the key developers behind Nintendo’s popular Metroid Prime series recently jumped ship to form a new development studio that will be dedicated to creating games for all three platforms under a publishing deal with Electronic Arts, the publisher announced today. Armature Studio, located in Austin, Texas, is headed by Mark Pacini, Todd Keller and Jack Mathews, the former Game Director, Art Director and Principal Technology Engineer of the Nintendo franchise. In a recent interview with Kotaku, Pacini said that the trio formed the new company some time in April and signed their exclusive publishing deal with EA two to three months later. “EA approached us with this really interesting business model of creating a small studio that is only comprised of industry veterans,” Pacini said. “The goal is to create new IP with a very, very small team and to produce a game without having to grow that team.” Pacini said he and the others at Armature are excited to finally be working on games for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 and not just the Wii and DS. More »

Key Metroid Prime Staffers Leave Retro Studios

9:20AM Michael McWhertor | According to report from Shacknews, three senior staffers at Metroid Prime series developer Retro Studios have left, described as being “escorted off the premises last Friday.” Specifics weren’t provided, but Shacknews theorises that the move could indicate that the trio, which includes Metroid Prime 3 Corruption director Mark Pacini, is planning to set up shop outside the confines of Retro. Pacini was quoted last summer that the Retro Studios team would be taking a break from all things Metroid, but may not have had any idea how permanent it would be for some. There have been no announcements about the Nintendo-owned, Austin-based studio’s next project, but wherever the recently departed wind up maybe they’ll get to put some guns on some cars. Key Metroid Prime Staff Leave Retro Studios [Shacknews] More »