Nintendo, Piggyback Team for Metroid Prime Artbook

Nintendo, with Retro Studios, partners with Piggyback for a forthcoming Metroid Prime art book. Learn more about this exciting collaboration, showcasing the behind-the-scenes development of the Metroid Prime series.

Nintendo and Piggyback Offer a New Perspective on the Metroid SeriesEncompassing Metroid Prime 1-3

Nintendo and Piggyback, a guidebook publisher, are collaborating on a Metroid Prime art book, releasing Summer 2025. Retro Studios, the Metroid Prime series developers, are also part of this partnership, offering extensive details on the game series’ 20 years of development.

The Metroid Prime 1-3: A Visual Retrospective art book features “drawings, sketches, and assorted illustrations from the Metroid Prime Series,” according to Piggyback’s website. It's not just visually appealing, but also provides context and perspective on the development of Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, and Metroid Prime Remastered.

Aside from high-quality art and developers’ sketches, the art book also comes with:

⚫︎ A foreword from Kensuke Tanabe, Metroid Prime’s producer
⚫︎ Penned Retro Studios’ introduction of each game
⚫︎ Producer’s anecdotes, commentaries, and insights on the artwork
⚫︎ A stitch-bound premium sheet-fed art paper with a cloth hardcover, featuring Samus etched in a metallic foil
⚫︎ Single (Hardcover) Edition

With 212 pages to peruse, readers will gain exclusive insight into how these four games were made and what inspiration the developers took them from. The price of this art book is £39.99 / €44.99 / A$74.95. If you are interested in this wonderful piece of art, you may check Piggyback’s website from time to time as it is not available yet to purchase.

Nintendo’s Past Collaboration with Piggyback

This is not the first time Piggyback collaborated with Nintendo. In fact, the company produced official guides for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, assisting players in exploring Hyrule, collecting all items, and finishing all quests.

These official guides encompass all information a player may require while playing these games, from Korok seed locations to weapon and armor specifications. The BOTW official guide even included details on its DLCs, such as The Master Trials and The Champions’ Ballad.

While not an official guide, Piggyback’s expertise in crafting visually stunning artwork for the recent Zelda BOTW and TOTK will undoubtedly be showcased in the forthcoming Metroid Prime 1-3: A Visual Retrospective art book.