Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

Jeff (he/him) is the Evergreen Content Lead at DualShockers. He's been writing mini video game reviews for his friends ever since High School. He graduated with his MFA in Popular Fiction, and he's ...

Head back to the E.M.M.I. zone, flash shift in hand and find the area’s central computer, kill it and get the omega blaster.

Drew Swanson is a Features Article Editor from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. He is a lifelong gamer with a passion for a variety of genres. A connoisseur of everything from JRPGs and ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In the nearly two decades since the release of the last original side-scrolling entry in the Metroid franchise, the genre that the series pioneered ...