retro studios
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Make The Metroid Tactics Game, Retro Studios, You Cowards
David, writing about a Metroid project that never saw the light of day on Kotaku AU? Must be Wednesday. YouTube stalwart Did You Know Gaming? has come through with the behind-the-scenes goods yet again, this week illuminating a suite of Metroid games that never saw the light of day. As spotted by Nintendo Life, it…
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PlayStation Studios Break Silence On Abortion Rights After Roe Overturned
7On Friday the U.S. Supreme Court made good on a longstanding right-wing threat to overturn Roe v. Wade, and with it eradicate the constitutional right to abortion that had existed for nearly 50 years. Now some of gaming’s most well known studios, which had previously been silent, are speaking up about the issue, with at…
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That Time Miyamoto Helped A Game By Crouching In It For 20 Mins
A former Retro Studios developer’s anecdote about working with legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto is too good not to share. It will surprise no one that the Mario creator knows exactly what he’s doing (most of the time) but hearing about how he works in practice adds a whole other layer of idiosyncratic craft to…
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What To Expect From Nintendo At E3 2021
Nintendo’s widely expected to bring out some big guns for its post-covid return to the biggest video game expo in the world, although whether we get a new Switch or Breath of the Wild 2 is a complete unknown.