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Last year today (August 31), Metroid: Other M was released to anxious fans around North America, followed shortly by the rest of the world. While for many, Other M was far from expectations, and a grave disappointment to some, there were still others who found great enjoyment from it. In fact, it's hard to think of any other game that came out over the past few years that has been this divisive or caused such change to the Metroid community since Metroid Prime. While we don't have any retrospectives to reflect on this occasion, I would like to say I've finally added a Library section for Metroid: Other M. One thing I'm doing new with this section (that will be expanded to the other libraries) is include interviews with the development staff as opposed to just strategy guides. Other M had a tremendous number of interviews, dating back to the game's reveal at E3 2009, and the new library aims to document all of these. Included are the Iwata Asks and Nintendo Channel interviews, but you may be interested to know there are additional interviews that haven't been widely known. These include the complete transcript of Yoshio Sakamoto's GDC lecture via Nintendo of Europe, an Iwata Asks conversation between Yoshio Sakamoto and Final Fantasy's Hironobu Sakaguchi that was translated by Nintendo of Europe but oddly never placed on NOA's homepage, a revealing interview with Gamasutra, and Metroid Headquarters' video interview with Yosuke Hayashi that was also conducted at A-Kon! I have to admit most of these passed under my radar... In all, it makes for an interesting retrospective of the game's development history that speaks for itself.

Admittedly, it's still a work in progress (as the absence of pictures makes immediately clear...), but I will be adding more detail to these sections as well as including more interviews. Stay tuned, and keep your eye on the 'Updates' bar to your right as well as the RSS feed for future updates.

Until next time...
Captain Commando