Nintendo hasn't forgotten about Metroid , even though the game company didn't reveal a new game in the beloved franchise during E3 2014.

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Kotaku spoke with two of the men in charge of game development at Nintendo — Shigeru Miyamoto and Shinya Takahashi — about the Metroid franchise, especially since there hasn't been a new adventure with Samus Aran since 2010's Metroid: Other M. But it sounds like the wait might not be too much longer, with Takahashi saying he hopes to share more "in the near future.""We have the Prime style of Metroid game, and we have the more traditional style of Metroid game," Takahashi said. "We feel that we do need to take care of both of these styles of play. And the hope is that at some point in the near future we'll be able to share something about them."Miyamoto and Takahashi didn't drop any hints about whether the next entry will be 2D or 3D, but it sounds like Nintendo hopes to satisfy all Metroid fans in the not-too-distant future. Now whether that future includes Super Metroid director Yoshio Sakamoto is another story , since the well-known game creator doesn't sound like he's returning to the sci-fi franchise anytime soon.For more on Miyamoto and Nintendo's future, be sure to check out IGN's interview with the Mario and Zelda creator.

Evan Campbell is a freelance news writer who streams games on his Twitch channel , talks about Nintendo weekly on the NF Show , and chats about movies and TV series on Twitter