A new update has appeared on the Japanese Metroid website that has led some to believe a new project could be on the way. According to a new button that has appeared on the main page, another side-story is on the horizon. The Japanese text featured on the button states "Follow Metroid Prime's history from the perspective of the Space Pirates." Could this be another spin-off from the main Metroid series, just as the Prime games were set between the happenings of the original Metroid and Metroid II? And if so, will it indeed be a new game or just an update to the web-based Metroid manga series?

Considering all of the other pictures on the main page are related to main entries on consoles, it could very well be something special. Could we finally see Metroid Dread appear on the DS? According to Mark Pacini, when he was still working at Retro Studios, he claimed the team's next project was not going to be Metroid-related, but perhaps things have changed.

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hmm, i honestly want another 2D metroid, but whatever they give us is fine i suppose

Hehe I hope it is a 3D game but a 2D would be ok to. I want something at least..

I took that as meaning that Metroid was going somewhere else. Despite the fact that Nintendo R&D1, the old team responsible for Fusion and Zero Mission (and Super Metroid before it) is long gone, i do think they could put an EAD team on a 2D Metroid

Retro is doing something else, but that doesn't preclude a new Metroid now, but i do think that this is just a fanservice of some sort

I'd love for a 2d metroid to come to the DS, but I guess another 3d one would be good too.

I believe someone here already translated that page and figured out that it's a comic book, not a game.

Super Metroid 2 for wii ware (on the line of the Snes game)

PLEASE PLEASE! ANOTHER 2D METROID!

It doesn't say anywhere that it's a comic book, but I'm pretty sure it is anyway. It just says that it's a sidestory.

if it is going to be a 3D/2D game kinda like SF4 i might have to get a Wii