Remember Metroid Prime 4? It’s still happening, as former DICE exec is hired

It really is one particular of the most extended-awaited sequels in Nintendo’s gaming history, but you will find at last some positive movement happening with the troubled improvement of Metroid Key four.

Jhony Ljungstedt, the former artwork director at studio DICE is joining the crew at Metroid Key four developers Retro Studios, and delivers with him a strong pedigree in initially person shooter structure.

Though Ljungstedt’s correct position is nonetheless to be verified, his prior get the job done on Battlefield five, Medal of Honor (the 2010 reboot), and Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst would make him a audio option to lead the artwork on a sci-fi initially person shooter like Metroid.

Other hires

Ljungstedt isn’t the only significant use for the studio, with Kyle Helfey of Halo character structure fame jumping on board, as effectively as the return of Stephen Dupree, who earlier acted as lead designer on Retro Studio’s Donkey Kong Place: Tropical Freeze, according to VGC.

It really is superior to listen to things at last shifting in the proper way for Metroid Key four, with the recreation possessing suffered considerable delays so considerably. At first unveiled (in logo sort, at minimum, all through a 2017 E3 presentation by Nintendo, improvement on the recreation was scrapped as Nintendo govt Shinya Takahashi said that  it experienced “not attained the conventional we seek out in a sequel to the Metroid Key series”.

That lead to present developers Retro Studios having on the job, with the complete way of the recreation remaining overhauled.

We’re nonetheless no closer to a release date for the recreation then, but get the job done presumably is progressing. Could this be the title to start the extended-rumored Nintendo Change Professional? It’d be a fair guess.