03 Feb 2022
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Nintendo announces Metroid Dread sales of 2.74m units globally

February 3, 2022

Nintendo’s have confirmed that Metroid Dread for Nintendo Switch has sold 2.74 million units during its launch on October 8th to December 21st 2021, which makes it the best selling 2D Metroid title ever! The results come from Nintendo’s latest financial report, which confirms that the game has outsold every other Metroid title except Metroid Prime, which during that period was only 100,000 units short of surpassing it. This is a fantastic result for the series, which has seen plenty of interest from gamers, and recognised by the wider gaming industry with nominations for several gaming awards in 2021, winning TIME’s Game of the Year award, and Best Action Adventure at The Game Awards in 2021.

It’s also worth noting that the Nintendo Switch, which has sold 103m units, has now officially outsold the Wii (101m units) as of December 21st 2021, which has surely helped the game thrive with such a healthy install base.

As Metroid fans, we needed no convincing that Metroid Dread was a very special title, but its great to see those figures finally confirm the success the game has managed to accumilate. We have no doubts that Dread will secure those additional 100,000 units to make it the best selling Metroid game to the present day. A huge congratulations to MercurySteam for the huge success the game has been bringing!

Source: Nintendo

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Episode 21 – Jack Mathews (Ex Retro Studios)

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Our twenty-first episode features special guest Jack Mathews, Technical Lead Engineer of Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, and Principal Technology Engineer on Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. In this special extended podcast, Jack goes into his thoughts on Metroid Dread, and answers questions relating to speculation and rumours surrounding the three Metroid Prime games he worked on. He shares his thoughts on a theoretical Metroid Prime remake for Nintendo Switch, and some thoughts on what Metroid Prime 4 and the future of the series could be like for Retro Studios.

Jack also pays a heartfelt tribute to two of his colleagues, Mark Haigh-Hutchinson (Senior Engineer) and Andy O’Neil (Technical Lead Engineer), who played a significant role in the games we love. Podcast features host Amanda and team member Darren.

Featuring brand new jingles, provided again by Mozzaratti!

01:06 – Guest: Jack Mathews (Dread, Interview)
42:14 – A tribute to Mark Haigh-Hutchinson and Andy O’Neil
52:02 – Topic: What we want to see from a Metroid Prime remake for Nintendo Switch
1:10:12 – Bloopers

Real Time Cameras: A Guide for Game Designers and Developers is available on Amazon

16 Jan 2022
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Interview: Lenka Volfová (Metroid: Other M Commercial)

January 16, 2022

We are proud to share our latest Shinesparkers interview, this time with Lenka Volfová, the actress who played Samus for the Metroid: Other M Commercial back in 2010! Lenka’s identity remained relatively unknown to the Metroid community for many years, so we are delighted to be able to recognise her work and learn more about her in this interview. We want to thank Lenka for taking the time to speak with us, and for bringing a beloved character to screen in such an awesome way!

Click here to check out the interview

14 Jan 2022
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Community Spotlight: Gario

January 14, 2022

Our first Community Spotlight of 2022 kicks off with musician Gario, a musician who has been creating music for many years, contributing to the OCRemix community, and more notably to our Harmony of a Hunter albums. His two tracks were Eldrich Spore Spawn from Harmony of a Hunter: 101% Run in 2012, and Garden of Zebes with our latest album, Harmony of a Hunter Returns. His spotlight marks the fiftieth Community Spotlight since we began highlighting some of the Metroid related talent across the internet!

Be sure to check out the Spotlight here

13 Jan 2022
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Metroid manga Samus & Joey gets eBook re-release

January 13, 2022

Kodansha publishing has announced that the Samus & Joey Metroid manga will be re-released as an eBook manga! It was originally published in Comic BomBom (a monthly Japanese manga magazine) between December 2002 and April 2004, and was written and illustrated by Idzuki Kouji. This release will be part of their Fukkatsu BomBom series (Revival BomBom), and all three volumes of the Samus & Joey manga will be released as a digital eBook. Updates will be given via the official Twitter channel, which links to their website (currently down at the time of publication).

Back in November 2019, we had the pleasure of interviewing Kouji-san about his work on the Samus & Joey manga series, you can check that out here. We are thrilled to see a classic Metroid story get a revival for a new generation of fans to enjoy, and wish to congratulate Kouji-san on its publication.

Source: ReBOMBOM_PR

31 Dec 2021
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Feature: End of Year 2021

December 31, 2021

Our final piece of content for the year is our annual End of Year feature. The team shares their favorite moments from 2021, and the excitement the series brought to them, and what they observed from the community in 2021. Naturally, Metroid Dread took centre stage in this feature, but we were also able to reflect on some of our own published content, including our fan-arrangement album Harmony of a Hunter Returns.

Happy New Year to all our readers, and thank you for your support this year. We look forwards to 2022, and the great content we have planned!

Click here to read our End of Year 2021 feature

24 Dec 2021
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Interview: Lawrence Schwedler (Metroid Prime Hunters Composer)

December 24, 2021

Recently, we had the pleasure of interviewing Lawrence Schwedler, the composer of Metroid Prime Hunters, and for Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt. Lawrence kindly offered many great responses to our questions, and anecdotes from his time working on the two software titles. We don’t want to give too much away, so we urge you to check out the interview in the link below. We are incredibly thankful for the opportunity to learn more about the sounds of Metroid Prime Hunters, and want to thank Lawrence for taking the time out to shae them with us!

You can check out the interview right here

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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