Next Level Games

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Next Level Games, Inc. is a Canadian video game developer owned by Nintendo based in Vancouver. Founded in October 2002 by former members of EA Black Box who've worked on games such as Sega Soccer Slam and NHL Hitz titles. Next Level Games specializes in creating console video games. Their first project was NHL Hitz Pro, which was published by Midway Games in 2003 and followed up from EA Black Box's prior entries in the NHL Hitz series. The company is best known for its work with Nintendo, the Mario Strikers games and Punch-Out!! for the Wii, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon and Metroid Prime: Federation Force for the Nintendo 3DS, and Luigi's Mansion 3 for the Nintendo Switch.[1][2]

Among other awards, Next Level Games has been named one of "Canada's Top 100 Employers" and one of BC's Top Employers in 2008, 2009 and 2012. The company has been featured in Maclean's magazine and BC Business magazine.

History

In January 2014, the studio announced that it would work exclusively with Nintendo from then on.[3][4] In that same interview, co-founder Jason Carr and producer Ken Yeeloy revealed that it was Nintendo who approached Next Level Games in the first place to develop Super Mario Strikers for the GameCube due to much of the team's prior work on Sega Soccer Slam at EA Black Box.[5]

In January 2021, Nintendo announced that it had purchased Next Level Games after "A number of owner-directors recently determined that the time is right for them to sell their shares, and NLG therefore began exploring potential sale transactions".[6] According to Nintendo's 2021 annual report, this acquisition took place on March 31st, 2021.[7] Co-founder Tronsgard would later retire from the studio by March 2022.[8]

List of games developed

List of games developed by Next Level Games
Year Title Platform(s) Publisher(s)
2003 NHL Hitz Pro GameCube
Xbox
PlayStation 2 		Midway Games
2005 Super Mario Strikers GameCube Nintendo
2007 Mario Strikers Charged Wii
Spider-Man: Friend or Foe PlayStation 2
Xbox 360
Wii 		Activision
2008 Ticket to Ride Xbox 360 Playful Entertainment
2009 Jungle Speed Wii
Punch-Out!! Nintendo
Doc Louis's Punch-Out!!
2010 Transformers: Cybertron Adventures Activision
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Ubisoft
2011 Captain America: Super Soldier Xbox 360
PlayStation 3 		Sega
2012 Microsoft Solitaire CollectionTemplate:Efn[9] Microsoft Windows
iOS
Android 		Xbox Game Studios
2013 Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon Nintendo 3DS Nintendo
2016 Metroid Prime: Federation Force
2019 Luigi's Mansion 3 Nintendo Switch
2022 Mario Strikers: Battle League
Notes

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Cancelled

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