{"id":112777,"date":"2020-05-11T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/metroid_prime_4_dev_retro_studios_hires_battlefield_tomb_raider_and_borderlands_artists"},"modified":"2020-05-11T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T11:45:00","slug":"metroid-prime-4-dev-retro-studios-hires-battlefield-tomb-raider-and-borderlands-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/11\/metroid-prime-4-dev-retro-studios-hires-battlefield-tomb-raider-and-borderlands-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Metroid Prime 4 Dev Retro Studios Hires Battlefield, Tomb Raider And Borderlands Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8e2c9951f6b86\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8e2c9951f6b86\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Samus Metroid\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8e2c9951f6b86\/samus-metroid.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8e2c9951f6b86\/samus-metroid.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Samus Metroid\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>It would appear that Retro Studios, a subsidiary of Nintendo which is currently working on the highly anticipated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/metroid_prime_4\"><strong>Metroid Prime 4<\/strong><\/a>, has once again been hiring a number of talented industry folk to bolster its ranks.<\/p>\n<p>As spotted by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/retro-studios-hires-battlefield-and-star-wars-artist-as-vfx-lead\/\">VGC<\/a>, the Texas-based developer has brought on a number of new VFX artists &#8211; the people responsible for the visual aspect of special effects like explosions, lasers, fire, and the like. The new hires include <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/adadmorales\">Adad Morales<\/a> (<strong>Battlefield Hardline<\/strong>), <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/bryanerck\">Bryan Erck<\/a> (<strong>Shadow of the Tomb Raider<\/strong>), and <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artstation.com\/artwork\/Bm50W8\">Nicholas Wilson<\/a> (<strong>Borderlands 3<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few months, we&#8217;ve been hearing of plenty of exciting Retro Studios newcomers. The three mentioned above will be joining Mark Capers, previously of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/new_super_luckys_tale\"><strong>New Super Lucky&#8217;s Tale<\/strong><\/a> developer Playful, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/metroid_prime_4_dev_retro_studios_hires_super_luckys_tale_and_crysis_3_designers\">James Beech<\/a> (<strong>Crysis 3<\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/dc_universe_online\">DC Universe Online<\/a>)<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/donkey_kong_tropical_freezes_lead_designer_has_reportedly_returned_to_retro_studios\">Stephen Dupree<\/a>, (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/donkey_kong_country_tropical_freeze\">Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze<\/a>)<\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/metroid_prime_4_dev_retro_studios_hires_halo_character_modeller_as_new_lead_artist\">Kyle Hefley<\/a> (<strong>Halo<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still yet to see anything of Metroid Prime 4, of course, but seeing all of these names joining the team is certainly a promising prospect. It&#8217;s now been well over a year since we first heard that development of the game had been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/metroid_prime_4_development_scrapped_will_be_restarted_alongside_retro_studios\">scrapped and restarted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you hoping to get a first glimpse at Metroid Prime 4 soon? Are you happy to wait as long as it takes? Let us know with a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear that Retro Studios, a subsidiary of Nintendo which is currently working on the highly anticipated Metroid Prime 4, has once again been hiring a number of talented industry folk to bolster its ranks. As spotted by VGC, the Texas-based developer has brought on a number of new VFX artists &#8211; the people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}