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Harmony of a Hunter: 101% Run OUT NOW!

Sunday, November 18th, 2012

After a year of hard work and dedication by the many musicians and team, Harmony of a Hunter: 101% Run is now available to download completely free! It features 39 tracks by over 30 musicians. Harmony of a Hunter 101% Run is a follow up to Harmony of a Hunter, an album we released last year to mark the 25th anniversary of Metroid.

Harmony of a Hunter: 101% Run was released to mark the 10th anniversaries of Metroid Prime and Metroid Fusion, which reach their impressive milestones today. It’s been a lot of fun putting this album together and I want to thank the many musicians, artists and the team as a whole for making this album possible.

You can download Harmony of a Hunter: 101% Run from our new look Harmony of a Hunter website right now!

Harmony of a Hunter: 101% Run Final Preview

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

It’s almost time for us to release our upcoming album Harmony of a Hunter: 101% Run, an album that i’ve been heavily involved in for just over a year, along with many other musicians. It’s been quite a ride and it’s been really great to see it all come together. Today we have revealed the final preview trailer for 101% Run. Click below to watch it!

For all the latest Harmony of a Hunter news, check out the official Facebook page

Feature: Play Expo Event

Saturday, November 10th, 2012

Last month we were invited along to Play Expo in Manchester by Replay Events and went hands on with Wii U and upcoming 3DS games such as Paper Mario. I (Darren) had a fantastic time and was really impressed by what I saw from Wii U and the event as a whole. Be sure to check out the full report on Play Expo by clicking the link above!

Feature: Interview with Andrew Skeet

Tuesday, November 6th, 2012

Our latest feature interview is with Orchestrator and Composer Andrew Skeet, who discusses Super Metroid: A Symphonic Poem on the Greatest Video Game Music 2 album, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Find out what it took to create the piece and working with Nintendo and Kenji Yamamoto to ensure the theme was just right.

Click the image above to go to the article!

Greatest Video Game Music 2 is available to buy from today from various stores.

Preview: Metroid Blast

Friday, September 14th, 2012

Over the past couple of days we have been gathering all the information that we can on Nintendo Land’s Metroid Blast. We have put together a preview featuring everything we know and shall continue to update it with information as we get it. You can find the preview in our Articles and Features section, or by clicking the link above.

Article: Other M: Two Years Later

Monday, September 10th, 2012

Back in January, we posted our first opinion piece on a concept for Metroid: Wii U in an attempt to offer some additional content to the website. Recently, Metroid: Other M celebrated its 2nd anniversary, and staff member Naner has aired some of his thoughts and opinions on the game. Be sure to give it a read in the Articles/Features section or click the image above!

Shinesparkers reaches second anniversary

Friday, August 31st, 2012

Our website has reached its second year, on this day back in 2010, a brand new Metroid fan community was born, offering exclusive news and content, building on the existing fan community already established by websites such as Metroid Database, Metroid Headquarters and Metroid Recon as well as others. I feel that Shinesparkers has surpassed expectations and has received a huge amount of support from Metroid fans and the wider Metroid community. Our Harmony of a Hunter project has been received well and our interviews and features have separated us from other similar websites. Our aims for the future continue to be built on, we hope to continue to provide fans with the same high levels of exclusive content and features and hopefully become one of the largest and most popular Metroid fan websites on the internet. We are already brainstorming ideas on how we can make this possible and hope that you will stick around and continue to support us.

I would also like to take a moment to recognise the efforts of our staff. Wavehack is our host and technical support, helping out behind the scenes to make sure things continue to run smoothly and the reason that this website is able to exist. Our staff writer Naner has been hard at work on website updates and articles and has been a big support during times when I (Darren) am not around to do so. I would also like to take this opportunity to introduce our newest staff member Sam, who is our graphic artist. She has been a huge help with our most recent features and will continue to support us by offering her services for the various graphics found around the website. We hope that you will welcome her and support her.

As you can see, Shinesparkers is a team effort, that includes you guys too. We do what we do because we love Metroid, but we are ultimately doing this for you too. Shinesparkers wouldn’t be what it is without our fans, so thank you to each and every one of you. We hope that you will continue to support us into our future.

Review: Max Factory Figma and Scale model

Wednesday, August 29th, 2012

We have been hard at work recently putting out some features for you guys. We have just finished putting together reviews for the Varia Suit figma and Zero Suit scale model. We have given our honest opinions on both of these products and hope it will make your decision in buying them easier. Both of these reviews can be found in our articles and features section now, or by clicking the images below.

We would like to thank Good Smile company for providing these figures for us to review for you.

Feature: ChozoBoy’s Ridley CosPIX

Friday, August 24th, 2012

We have been talking with Dan Cattell, also known as ChozoBoy about his latest piece of art taking one of Metroid’s most iconic characters and bringing him into the real world. ChozoBoy with the help of friends designed a life sized Ridley, pixel perfect from Super Metroid. He’s a huge fan of the series and his passion and dedication really show in this project. The feature is now available to read in the Articles and Features section or by clicking the picture above.

Harmony of a Hunter: 101% Run Third Preview

Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

Sorry for the lack of updates recently, we’ve been quite hard at work on Harmony of a Hunter: 101% Run and we are now very happy to reveal the third preview trailer for the album. This time, the preview has a heavy focus on Metroid Fusion and we hope that you enjoy it!

We can also confirm that Harmony of a Hunter: 101% Run will be released this November as a free download. For more information check out the Harmony of a Hunter website and for even more updates and a chance to communicate with other fans and musicians of Harmony of a Hunter, be sure to check out the Facebook page!