During the day, a highly interesting news arrived, especially for true fans of the famous saga: Nandakumar joined the studio owned by Nintendo in April as chief engineer to devote himself entirely to Metroid Prime 4, thereby leaving the same role uncovered it had occupied for the PC version of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. The Indian programmer in question had spent a whole decade together with Activision working on all Black Ops episodes and specializes in online programming, tools and gameplay. In particular, man contributed to the creation of the Theater mode of Black Ops and also led the instrumentation and data analysis for recent branded titles Treyarch.
Nintendo had declared since the beginning of 2019 that he had in mind to "restart development from the beginning" for Metroid Prime 4, with the manufacturer Kensuke Tanabe which he would call the Texas-based studio creator of the series "Retro Studios”To assign the project to its original developer and without warning, also relying on a number of veterans such as Nandakumar. Since then, Retro has begun to follow the fourth installment of the series and on their page you can see that the team is still looking for a variety of roles to fill.
In this regard, the leading designer of Tropical Freeze, Stephen Dupree, rejoined Retro at the end of 2019 after two years of total absence. About half of the full-time developers they have worked on Metroid Prime 3 remain at Retro Studios, according to analysis by VGC conducted in August 2019. Did you know that just over a month ago some artworks of possible canceled projects related to Mario e Zelda?
