Mercury Steam Entertainment S.L.,

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MercurySteam, is a Spanish

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based in San Sebastián de los Reyes,

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

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, assisted MercurySteam during the '' Castlevania: Lords of Shadow'' trilogy. After MercurySteam pitched a remake of the 2002 game ''

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'' to

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, the producer,

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, hired them to create a remake of '' Metroid II'' instead. MercurySteam collaborated with Nintendo again to develop a new game, '' Metroid Dread'', for the

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. In December 2020,

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, under their Nordisk Games division, purchased a 40% stake in the studio.

Games developed

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