During the Game Developers Conference, the boss of Retro Studios, Michael Kelbaugh, harshly attacked some former staff members who left the company after the release of Metroid Prime 3 to give birth to a new study. "In the end it was a good thing for us, and if any of you here in the audience, look at what you missed," Kelbaugh said, referring to the platformer Donkey Kong Country Returns.
The go-ahead for the development of new Donkey Kong was made by Nintendo in 2008, and just at that date back some frictions that have led some staff members to leave the study. "Some key elements of the back (in 2008 the art director Todd Keller, design director Mark Pacini, engineer Jack Matthews and formed Armor Studios) left the company to seek his fortune elsewhere, and prevented the study to continue the experiments being conduct ".
"This allowed Retro Studios to abandon the experiments for rapidly working on Donkey Kong Country Returns. If these people had left there probably Donkey Kong Country Returns would not have fallen into the hands of Retro." Armor is currently working on a project to be announced "to be published by a publisher as yet unknown.
Meanwhile, Retro Studios has reached 4 million copies sold around the world with his Donkey Kong. 
The go-ahead for the development of new Donkey Kong was made by Nintendo in 2008, and just at that date back some frictions that have led some staff members to leave the study. "Some key elements of the back (in 2008 the art director Todd Keller, design director Mark Pacini, engineer Jack Matthews and formed Armor Studios) left the company to seek his fortune elsewhere, and prevented the study to continue the experiments being conduct ".
"This allowed Retro Studios to abandon the experiments for rapidly working on Donkey Kong Country Returns. If these people had left there probably Donkey Kong Country Returns would not have fallen into the hands of Retro." Armor is currently working on a project to be announced "to be published by a publisher as yet unknown.
Meanwhile, Retro Studios has reached 4 million copies sold around the world with his Donkey Kong.
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