Longtime Metroid director Yoshio Sakamoto acknowledged that the long-rumored Metroid Dread is real and may some day be released.

During a Metroid interview yesterday with series director Yoshio Sakamoto and Team Ninja producer Yousuke Hayashi, we slipped in a question that was not about the newly announced Metroid: Other M.

Well, we thought it might be related.

For a few years, there have been rumors that Nintendo was working on a new side-scrolling Metroid game called Metroid Dread. There was even an easter egg reference to entities known as "Metroid Dreads" tucked into Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.

So, we wondered, could the long-incubating Metroid: Other M, which we learned was conceived in 2006, be the Dread project?

"He's very familiar with that [game,]" Sakamoto's translator said after posing our question to him. "No, this is different."

We pressed for details on what Dread is. Sakamoto's response: "The day may come when Dread hits the stores, but this one is something that's completely different. This is other M."

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So another Metroid?

does this mean we have 2 metroid games in production? this is great!! : )

Metroid Dread is aliiiiiiiiive!!!

"The day may come when Dread hits the stores, but this one is something that's completely different. This is other M."

^ I just jizzed in my pants. Fucking awesome.

if Dread is real, i would like if they actually announced it >.>

Nintendo always has some hidden games....

The more Samus the high my tent gets pitched.

Dread is supposed to be a DS game anyway.

Still want a Metroid/Castlevania crossover game as well.

1up interview here btw: http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?pager.offset=0&cId=3174587&p=44

2D Metroid game for DS... Do want!