Nintendo Direct Confirmed & Metroid Prime Remastered May Be Coming Soon

Nintendo is having a last minute, mini Direct before the end of June, Metroid Prime Remastered may be coming to the Switch this Holiday, PlayStation Plus games for July leak, and Hideo Kojima scrapped a The Boys-like project.

A new Nintendo Direct is imminent, and Metroid Prime might be coming to Switch this year? All this andmore on today’s GameSpot News.

For the past few weeks, a Nintendo Direct (*Xenoblade Direct footage on screen* No, not that one) has been rumored to be in the works before the end of June. In the eleventh hour, Nintendo confirmed that a Direct is indeed happening *cheering sound effect* buuuuutttttt *record scratch sound effect ends cheering* that it’s going to be one of its mini presentations exclusively dealing with third party titles. So expect to see some news on titles like Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope rather than the sequel to Breath of the Wild.

Jeff Grubb of GameSpot’s sister site GiantBomb has stated that he has heard Nintendo plans to spread out its Not-E3 presentations over the course of the summer, so even if this Direct doesn’t speak to you, you might not have to wait much longer for one that does.

Speaking of Jeff Grubb and waiting, this year is the 20th anniversary of the beloved Metroid Prime, and it seems that Nintendo might finally be ready to put out a remaster of this classic in time for that celebration. Grubb reports that he has been told “pretty definitively” that the remaster will be one of Nintendo’s big holiday 2022 releases. Grubb also notes that rather than a package of the entire trilogy, this release will only be a remaster of the first Metroid Prime, and while there are plans to eventually rerelease two and three, those titles might not get the same level of overhaul.
But leaks don’t stop there! Also potentially revealed are July’s PlayStation Plus titles. Via Dealabs, it seems subscribers to the service, on every tier, will be able to get Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan, and Arcadegeddon when the monthly games refresh on July 5. 

Not only is the recently released fourth Crash Bandicoot a great get on its own, but the remastered N. Sane trilogy of the first three games is already available via the PlayStation Plus Collection, so players can complete the entire Bandicoot saga. For those that have checked out Supermassive’s latest horror game The Quarry, and are itching for more, Man of Medan is the first release in the developer’s Dark Picture Anthology series, featuring similar mechanics and spooky delights. The final title, Arcadegeddon, released in early access last summer, and is a multiplayer shooter set in an arcade game with both PvP and PvE elements. While it has flown relatively under the radar since launching, its inclusion in next month’s PS Plus lineup is sure to give it a shot in the arm.

Of course, with new PS Plus games incoming means old PS Plus Games outgoing, so these are the last few days you have to claim 2018’s God of War, Nintendo All-Star Brawl and Norotu to Boruto: Shinobi Strikers before they’re gone.

Something else that’s gone is a potential Hideo Kojima superhero project. In a tweet thread, the iconic developer mentions how he shelved plans for a “radical hard-boiled action film” that pit a special detective squad against superheroes after the release of Amazon Prime’s The Boys, a TV show with a similar scope. Kojima states that he pictured one of the actors in his latest game Death Stranding, Mads Mikkelsen, in the lead role.

Kojima, if you’re watching this, I’m begging you: please bring this project back to life.

While you at home too mourn the loss of a hard-boiled detective story helmed by Hideo Kojima, distract yourself with the Overwatch 2 open beta starting on June 28th, now on both PC and console. If that’s not your bag, on the same day, Jane Foster AKA the Mighty Thor will become a playable hero in Marvel’s Avengers with her own unique moves and battle pass separate from the original God of Thunder.