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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption may not be the last game in the Prime series. With Other M on the way next year, some might have thought that the Prime series had come to an end but, as Nintendo’s Kensuke Tanabe told ONM, the series may still have a future.

Asked whether Samus will ever return to DS, Tanabe (who oversaw Retro Studios’ series for Nintendo) said "We are always planning to make new games in the Metroid Prime series. Depending on the timing and the situation, we cannot deny the possibility of realising it on DS or DSi."

Metroid Prime is finished, but Retro Studios may yet return to the franchise they translated to next-generation consoles. Speaking with IGN, CEO Michael Kelbaugh said that he thinks Retro will always be associated with Metroid.

“I think Retro will always be associated with the Metroid Prime franchise and who knows, maybe we?ll do another one someday,” he said.

Retro’s body of work was recently collected and updated for the Metroid Prime Trilogy, which was released August 24.

Gamasutra is proud to present an excerpt from the book Real-Time Cameras by Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, a veteran Retro Studios staffer who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2008 and passed away in 2009. The book, published posthumously with help from his colleagues and friends, is available now.

If there’s one thing Zelda fans know at this point, it is that a game in the series is in development for the Wii.