retro studios
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Four Years Later, Players Found A Metroid Hidden In Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze
There’s a metroid in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and someone finally found it. The search took four years, but it turns out it actually isn’t that hard to find once you know where to look.
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Nintendo Defends Decision To Have Retro Make A New Donkey Kong Country
Nintendo knows that the choice to have the company’s top-flight development studio in Texas make another Donkey Kong side-scroller was controversial — so controversial, in fact, that Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime actually addressed it in a video yesterday shortly before I asked him about it.
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Retro Studios Probably Not The Right Fit For Zelda Says Miyamoto
Retro Studios has made a career from expertly and delicately bringing the best out of overlooked or struggling Nintendo franchises. Metroid Prime is arguably one of the greatest games released in the last decade and Donkey Kong Country Returns? I’d argue it’s the best 2D platformer of this generation. Some fans have been clamouring for…
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Shigeru Miyamoto Knows Some Americans He’d Make A Zelda With
The Legend of Zelda is one the most successful video game franchises to ver come from Japan. It’s been mostly made by Nintendo studios in Kyoto, with some added efforts by Capcom, which is based in Osaka.