Metroid will be releasing on the North American Wii U Virtual Console next week, according to a listing on Nintendo’s website. Though it’s tentative, the game could arrive on July 11. Pricing is set at $4.99.
In a new interview with Game Informer, Shigeru Miyamoto discussed Metroid, the possibility of returning to the Super Mario Galaxy series and making a single-player-only Mario title, mobile games, and more. You can find some excerpts after the break. You can find the full interview over at Game Informer.
The Earthworm Jim Facebook page is managed primarily by Doug TenNapel (creator), with some extra comments by MIke Dietz and Ed Schofield, all of whom worked on the series in some official capacity. Whether this means anything is hard to say… he could have just been thinking about the 3D entry in the series and pondering how fans don’t really think too highly of it!
Namco Bandai put out one Tekken game on the 3DS, Tekken 3D: Prime Edition. This was a traditional Tekken experience. But if another entry in the series were to come to 3DS, it would probably be a card game.
Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada told French website Pockett:
“If we were to make a new Tekken game for Nintendo 3DS … We would do something else. A card game like Tekken Card Tournament is more likely. But, to date, there is no such plan.”
