Acting president and co-founder of Next Level Games, Douglas Tronsgard, announces his retirement from the video game industry.
Next Level Games is a Canadian video game developer who is best known for its work with Nintendo. Established in 2002 by Eric Randall and Douglas Tronsgard, it would go on to create several console games, with some most acclaimed titles being for Nintendo. This includes Super Mario spin-offs like the Mario Strikers series to a fully-fledged reboot of Punch-Out!! for the Wii console. Thanks to these titles, Next Level Games became a household name on Nintendo platforms.
In 2014, Next Level Games announced that it would be working exclusively with Nintendo. Since that statement, two games were released under its joint umbrella, those being Metroid Prime: Federation…