Retro Studios will be at the E3 according to their tweet:

Given that they are the guys behind the Metroid Prime quadrilogy, the last three Donkey Kong games, and Super Mario Kart 7, what announcement are you hoping for?

Wouldn't mind another Donkey Kong Country game, Tropical Freeze was not the greatest in the world but I still enjoyed it. Metroid Prime doh, that would be glorious.

Donkey Kong Country: The Big Dig. Coming to Wii U this Fall/Spring.

Fuck it , I dunno. This time the villains are mole people. Because whatever, everybody who was at Retro who had ambitions of working on something more original than a DKC game has already left to work somewhere else.

:(

Would love it if they either tackled a Nintendo property they haven't done before or something completely new.

Pikmin 4. Which is now basically Lemmings.

I'd buy a Wii U immediately if it was Metroid. It won't be.

Would also love a 2D Metroid.

Won't be that either. *sigh*

So they are making a sequel to The Warriors?

I would love a 2D Metroid for 3DS... actually I would like anything for 3DS. I think it's super unlikely that Retro would do that though.

I would like to see something new and original.

Athletic World 2016

I want this to happen

CAN YOU COUNT, SUCKAS?

I'd be down for a new take on Metroid or something else new from them. They've done two good DK games, time to move on.

This lines up with the old Kevin Callahan leak that said Retro and Monster were collaborating on Diddy Kong Racing 2. That's my thought as to what they're getting at. It has only been just over a year since DKCTF, not enough time to get DKC Baja Blast together.

Edit: Also worth noting Nintendo just reupped their trademark of Diddy Kong in Europe. What else could that mean other than DKR reappearing?

That'd be cool, I didn't like the first one but would be down for giving a new one a shot.

If it's not a new Metroid game, I will be severely disappointed...until I finish watching the trailer for whatever they're actually working on because it'll probably be another good game.

I hope it's nothing Donkey Kong related. Those two new DKC games seemed pretty good, well I played the second one and it was pretty good, but I'd also love to see them put that amount of craftmanship into either a new, bigger and betterish, Metroid Prime-ish game. Or, if that would be beyond them, into something completely new.

I've forgotten what exactly was the situation with some leaderfolks leaving Retro and starting Armature, but I'm curious if those guys will ever have a major project of their own. The most I've ever seen of them was being attached to that cancelled Primelike Mega Man game, and they are handling the WiiU and Vita ports of Bloodstained.

"Hey guys, we're making a new Metroid and it's coming out this year.

...

Ha ha, just kidding! What a funny joke. Instead we're making HD remasters of the first three Donkey Kong Country games. One every other year, for the next six years.

That's all we're doing."

@angrighandi: Yeah, that's about the extent that I expect Nintendo to misuse Retro, so sure.

I kind of want Retro Studios to make a Booker T game after reading that tweet. But I do look forward to see what they're gonna show off.

Please be F-Zero, Please be F-Zero

Is it a Squid or is it a Kart Racer?

Can you dig it?Retro doing a drilldozer reboot?

@slag: I want to believe!

If it's anything DK related then I'm gonna freak out and not in the good way

2D Metroid. Just do it already, with Tropical Freeze they showed that a big budget 2D game can still amaze.

OK, so this was all complete bullshit, right? I didn't watch all of the Nintendo E3 Treehouse streams and whatever, but Retro Studios didn't feature anything of note, right?

So who is making that terrible looking Metroid Prime: Federation Force game?

Next Level Games, the developers of Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon.

@ll_exile_ll said:

Yeah. And man, Next Level Games could be doing so much better. They made Mario Strikers Charged, which was actually fucking awesome. Maybe even though it's not what everybody wants, that Federation Force game will turn out alright, because I actually kinda trust that studio's design chops.

But seriously, what the fuck was that "Can you dig it?" tweet about, when Retro Studios did not show anything at E3 whatsoever?

@bisonhero said:

Yup. Retro mislead everyone. They've offered no explanation for their absence though.

@bisonhero: @crimsonavenger: I think the more likely, and optimistic, option is that they simply were promoting their parent company's press event.

Yep. Few things to note.

-They confirmed no other Metroids were in development.

-Iwata stared into a banana again

-Last time Iwata did that was a year before the reveal of Tropical Freeze.

Guys get hype. Retro is closing out their DKC Trilogy!

(Don't listen to naysayers. They thought DKCR was all Retro would do. They were ridiculously wrong. They have a bad track record.)

@gaff said:

True, but it still seems weird to put out a tweet that is like "Get hype for this conference! Which btw we are not contributing to in any way."

@gaff said:

We know they are working on something though. We kind of expected them to show up.

sigh...

@babychoochoo said:

That moment when you see how young and naïve you used to be.