Welcome to a brand new Metroid community where the staff are as passionate about Metroid as you!
Our first feature is an interview with Gene Kohler discussing his work on Metroid Prime.
Metroid Metal, the infamous band behind the Metroid Metal: Varia Suite album has now released an update to their album in the form of Metroid Metal: Expansion pack. Here you will find an extra six songs that weren’t featured on the original album and provides 27 minutes of Metroid goodness! If you’ve already bought the album, you can buy Expansion pack on disc for just $4 or as a download for an amount you feel to be reasonable.
Today marks the day of the European launch of Metroid: Other M which now means that the game has been launched in the US, Japan, Australia and now Europe. If you haven’t already bought the game then go out and do so! If all goes well I should get my copy today one way or the other, Royal Mail fails guys! 
Also, do make sure you visit our new forums, they’re quite active currently and there is some interesting discussion going on. However if you’re going to discuss Metroid: Other M be warned, we have a spoiler rule in place!
There have also been a few nice reviews written about the website so far, you can check them out below and see if you agree with what they say:
The Gaming Enigma
Matt’s Opinions
The official Metroid website has updated with new media content for Metroid: Other M. The new content includes video footage of many abilities that Samus has in the game and there has also been some wallpapers added to the website. The wallpapers are kinda cool and can be downloaded in different resolutions to suit your screen resolution. I particularly like the arm cannon one 
Today also marks the release of Metroid: Other M in Japan and Australia, with Europe following suit tomorrow on September 3rd. The reactions to the game so far have been mixed, our staff member Ben has completed the game in 12 hours playing it through to the very end. Expect some comments from him at some point on our forums or on our website in the form of a review.
I would just like to say how thrilled I am that Shinesparkers got off to an amazing start. We’ve been really lucky to have good advice and support from various people out there. I would like to give a quick mention to Robot Entertainment who have linked to our interview with Gene Kohler via their Facebook page. We would also like to give a big thank you to the many users and visitors that have advertised our website to their friends through Facebook, Twitter and word of mouth. We hope you will continue to do so.
There has been a lot of activity on the forums regarding the release of Metroid: Other M so if you haven’t checked it out already, please do so!
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