We didn't expect t' pillage news about PilotWings Resort during a Donkey Kong Country Returns panel, but here it be. During Retro Studios' GDC postmortem, Nintendo producer Kensuke Tanabe cited two other American developers that Nintendo works with: Next Level Games, which made Punch-Out for Wii, 'n ExciteTruck/ExciteBots developer Monster Games -- which he said be working on PilotWings Resort.

Until now, it seems that this detail had been a secret ('n Pilotwings creator Nintendo EAD had been assumed t' be the Resort developer) -- or, at least, it just wasn't mentioned.

Resort isn't the first PilotWings game t' be co-created with an American company: Nintendo EAD worked with Paradigm Simulations for the Nintendo 64 sequel.