Retro Studios
Despite their success critically and commercially, Retro Studios have consistently suffered from problems behind the scenes. When first acquired by Nintendo, many of their games in development were canceled, and more recently a number of very senior staff members left the company. Through all this though, Retro has continued to make the Metroid series their own with a trilogy of truly superb games, rounded off with the gorgeous Corruption.
What has become increasingly apparent though is that Metroid‘s fundamental gameplay concepts are an acquired taste, and despite efforts to streamline the backtracking in Corruption, the series will never have the wide reaching appeal of Halo for example. So with this in mind it would be surprising if Retro were not working on a Halo-killer in time for summer 2009, especially as much of the technology is already in place.
