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Episode 20 – End of Year 2021

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Episode 20 - End of Year 2021
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Our twentieth episode rounds off the year 2021 by looking back at our content from Shinesparkers published this year, highlighting some of the great features and community spotlights across the website. The podcast also features a special Metroid themed quiz, featuring six contestants from members of the Shinesparkers community!

Please be aware that this episode will contain spoilers from Metroid Dread. This will be our last notice regarding spoilers, so if you wish to avoid them in this episode or in the future, please listen once you’ve played the game.

00:46 – Main topic: Looking back at a year of Shinesparkers content
09:57 – Metroid themed quiz featuring members of the Shinesparkers community
48:00 – Closing comments
49:09 – Bloopers

Special thanks to Shinesparkers community members The Orpheon, Deadweight, Doeboy, TorvusBolt, Metroid Trainer and Metroid35 for taking part in our quiz!

10 Dec 2021
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Community Spotlight: Doeboy

December 10, 2021

Our final Community Spotlight for the year has now been published! This time, we are highlighting a personality within the Metroid community known as Doeboy. He’s a full-time Twitch streamer, content creator, and broadcast producer. Doeboy has had a big presence within the Super Smash Bros. community too, taking part in major tournaments as a Samus main, and organiser of the infamous Smash Bros. “Ultimate Summit”.

A huge thanks to everyone who allowed us to share their work this year. We hope that we were able to share some amazingly talented individuals and help them receive more recognition for their contributions!

Be sure to check out Doeboy’s Community Spotlight here

04 Dec 2021
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Metroid Dread wins “Best Spanish Game” at the Huawei 3D Games Awards 2021

December 4, 2021
Congratulations to Metroid Dread developer MercurySteam for winning the Best Spanish Game Award at the Huawei 3D Games Awards 2021! It managed to win against two other titles: Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX by Jankenteam, and Narita Boy by Studio Koba. Collecting the award was MercurySteam’s Creative Director, Jose Luis Marquez.

You can watch the timestamped stream of the award below, in Spanish.

03 Dec 2021
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Feature: The Shadow Federation

December 3, 2021

Back in August, our team member Quadraxis shared a feature written from research into the Galactic Federation’s past and present history. Today, we are thrilled to share part two of that feature, in which Quadraxis focuses on the “Shadow Federation”. This is his name for the secretive faction within the Federation that were responsible for the illegal bioweapon projects on the Bottle Ship and BSL research station, and possibly the E.M.M.I. too. We hope you’ll enjoy reading about the Federation splinter group.

Click here to check out the feature

30 Nov 2021
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MercurySteam confirms they’re developing a new RPG

November 30, 2021

MercurySteam has partnered with Digital Bros., the parent company of video game publisher 505 Games, to produce their next game. An original IP called Project Iron, it will be “a third-person action role-playing game set in a dark fantasy world.” Project Iron is to be released on multiple platforms and has a budget of €27 million, or about $30.7 million USD. The IP is co-owned by Digital Bros. and MercurySteam.

In a statement, Digital Bros. said: “We are thrilled to work with the team at MercurySteam, a proven studio that over the years has created numerous phenomenal IPs – including the recent hit release Metroid Dread in partnership with Nintendo. With MercurySteam’s creative vision and talent and 505 Games extensive experience, gamers can expect a high-quality, captivating and engaging videogame.”

MercurySteam brought us Metroid Dread last month, and Metroid: Samus Returns before that, and they were both fantastic entries in the Metroid series. With their passion, dedication and skill, I think Project Iron will be a great success. Best of luck to MercurySteam on their new game!

Source: Digital Bros./VGC

23 Nov 2021
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Metroid Dread wins Nintendo Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards 2021

November 23, 2021

Metroid Dread has won Nintendo Game of the Year, as voted by members of the public! Nicolas Wegnez, General Manager at Nintendo UK accepted the award, praising the development teams at Nintendo and Mercury Steam. Wegnez went on to say that almost twenty years had passed between the previous 2D Metroid title Metroid Fusion, and this new game, making the point that many players had never played a 2D Metroid game before. He thanked both development teams who worked together to create Metroid Dread.

Congratulations to Nintendo and Mercury Steam!