Mercury Steam Entertainment S.L.,

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MercurySteam, is a Spanish video game developer based in

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. The company was founded by former members of Rebel Act Studios, who previously developed '' Severance: Blade of Darkness'' in 2001. Dave Cox is a producer at

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who has helped out MercurySteam during the '' Castlevania: Lords of Shadow'' trilogy. In 2015, Nintendo Life reported that MercurySteam had worked on a ''

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'' prototype for

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and

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, that was later turned down and possibly retrofitted into a different project. It was later revealed that they had pitched for a remake of ''

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''. This pitch was rejected, but because series creator

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was impressed by the pitch and the team's love of ''Metroid'', they were hired to collaborate on '' Metroid: Samus Returns'' instead. In December 2020,

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, under their Nordisk Games division, purchased a 40% stake in the studio. MercurySteam collaborated with Nintendo again to develop a new ''Metroid'' game, ''

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'', for the

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, after the developers demonstrated that they could develop games for the platform.

Games developed

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