A FLAWLESS REIMAGINING OF NINTENDO’S 2D SERIES IN 3D, METROID PRIME WAS MET WITH UNANIMOUS ACCLAIM AND RECEIVED TWO POPULAR SEQUELS. PRIME TRILOGY CREATIVES JASON BEHR, KYNAN PEARSON AND VINCE JOLY EXPLAIN HOW THE SERIES EVOLVED

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ANCIENT CORP’S NEW MEGA DRIVE SHOOTER EARTHION HAS DELIGHTED AUDIENCES (INCLUDING NICK) WITH ITS STUNNING PIXEL ART, SUMPTUOUS SOUND AND ENERGETIC GAMEPLAY. WITH THAT IN MIND, WE ASKED LEGENDARY GAME COMPOSER YUZO KOSHIRO AND DESIGNER MAKOTO WADA TO LIFT THE LID ON ITS CREATION

REMEMBER THE BACK OF THE ARCADE, WHERE THE NOT-SO-FLASHY COIN-OPS LURKED IN THE DARKNESS, WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED? BACK IN 1987, THIS IS WHERE YOU’D LIKELY HEAR A BLOOD-CURDLING FEMALE SCREAM THAT COULD BELONG TO ONLY ONE GAME… SEGA’S COIN-OP CREATURE FEATURE ALIEN SYNDROME

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