Retro Employees Get Fired, Maybe.

Psssst, guess what? Several employees over at Retro Studios got canned... I think... or maybe they quit? The details around their sudden departure are kind of cloudy.

According to Shacknews, "Design director Mark Pacini, art director Todd Keller, and principal technology engineer Jack Mathews were escorted off the premises last Friday."

For those of you worried about Retro Studios closing, or the future of the Metroid series, fret not, we've been reassured that Retro won't be closing anytime soon and Metroid Dread is being developed by Nintendo itself.


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R.I.P Mark Haigh-Hutchinson.

Picture of Mark from 1996. Credit to mobygames.com for the picture.

Mark had a 23 year career where he worked at both LucasArts and Retro Studios working primarily on camera views and controls for the games. That is until he recently passed away due to pancreatic cancer.



I wanted to do something special for Mark's passing, so I've taken a list of a few of the games he's worked on and put a video next to them as a memoir to the greatness which he helped create.

Star Wars : Rogue Squadron

Sam 'N' Max Hit the Road








Zombies Ate My Neighbors







Metroid Prime, Series

May peace be with you Mark, thanks for all the games and all the fun times.

-Undrallio

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