Samus Aran seemed to be in good hands when Nintendo announced it was making a live-action Metroid movie directed by John Woo.

before revitalizing it with the first-person Metroid Prime series and a couple of more retro-minded side-scrolling spinoffs for Game Boy systems. Another break, almost as long, followed after the ...

In 2003, Michael Kelbaugh was named president of Retro Studios. In 2004 Retro released Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, which proved to be just as much of a success as the first game.