NeoGAF member “Mama Robotnik” has unearthed a bunch of various concept art, renders, and more for the Metroid Prime games. The findings come from Retro Studios artist Danny Richardson.
Each title in the Retro-developed series is featured in the gallery above. You’ll find images of enemy concepts (such as an Omega Metroid for MP1), menu shots, and a bunch of other items.
Thanks to datapop for the tip!
Gaijin Games co-founder Alex Neuse has fired off another round of comments which hint at a Wii U version of Bit.Trip Presents: Runner 2.
Last month, the game was pushed back to November. As far as whether or not Gaijin will be looking to make a Wii U version of Runner 2, Neuse said:
“(Smiles) I wonder. I wonder if that means that. Let me put it this way: we have a Wii U dev kit, and our game is coming out around the time that system launches, so that would be pretty cool.”
Neuse followed up with comments on how the Wii U controller excites him:
“I have to think of it in terms of Runner2 now — thinking about it broadly would be too much — but if we were to do a Wii U version, what if you could have a pick-up in the game that reveals hidden bonuses and stuff that you can’t see on your screen but have to hold the controller up? You’re still playing but it’s sort of like an X-ray vision.
“Yeah [sort of like a CommanderVideo detective mode], exactly! (laughs) You get a Silent Scope kind of feel. But anyway, if we do a Wii U version I don’t know what we would do with the controller. I would want to do something unique, but honestly we haven’t figured that part out.”
Gaijin Games even posted the following on Twitter today:
“What Wii U features would you like to see on the OFF CHANCE that we bring Runner2 to the platform?”
Runner (and the Bit.Trip series in general) made its debut on Wii. Wouldn’t it be nice to see Runner 2 on the console’s successor?
Mario Party 9 will be available in Japan on April 26.
IGN has obtained various software sales data from Nintendo.
Kid Icarus: Uprising sold 135,000 units in its first month. Mario Party 9 was even more impressive, moving 230,000 copies on Wii.
Super Mario 3D Land tacked on another 100,000 sales while Mario Kart 7 picked up another 118,000 units. Life-to-date figures of these two titles in the U.S. stand at 1.98 million and 1.58 million respectively.
