Tag Archives: Monster Hunter

With all eyes glued on GDC, you’d think the rest of the news would have the decency to keep quiet – but no. Hit the break for loads of tasty snippets.

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A thread on the Capcom-Unity forums has been created to keep players informed of upcoming Monster Hunter Tri events.

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You like Metal Gear Solid. You like Monster Hunter. You’re just about ready to explode with joy, then, at the latest Solid Snake shenanigans in Monster Hunter Portable 3rd.

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The addictive delights of the Monster Hunter series may soon find a new and perhaps more popular home on new hardware, as producer Ryozo Tsujimoto hints at a possible 3DS incarnation for the portable phenomenon.

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According to a Nikkei report, Capcom wants to release more games from its big IPs on a yearly basis.

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Looks like the Monster Hunter armor revealed for Lost Planet 2 yesterday is only for those that live in Japan.

For now.

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Famitsu has revealed through some screenshots that Lost Planet 2 is getting more than just Wesker, Dom and Marcus.

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Want to know what Monster Hunter looks like in Metal Gear Sold: Peace Walker? Well, here you are.

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Nope, you’re eyes do not deceive you. Monster Hunter is coming to Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

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Capcom’s Keiji Inafune has told Famitsu that he believes Monster Hunter: Frontier Online could “succeed” oversea.

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SCEJ just announced five new PSP bundles for Japan, featuring white, blue, black, red and Monster Hunter shades. See them on Kotaku.

The non-game bundles are ¥19,800 (US$219.50). The Monster Hunter Pack’s ¥18,500 ($205). They’re all out in December.

Capcom announced a spin-off of Monster Hunter for the PSP over the weekend at an event in Japan.

The full title of it isn’t known in English, but it does involve creatures from the series, “airu”.

Find the full video of the reveal after the break, thanks to Kotaku.

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Capcom’s Monster Hunter Gathering Hall will have its doors flung wide come July 3 at the Lazarides Gallery in London.

Three floors of space should be plenty of room for you to mingle and enjoy the free sodas, art, and people playing Monster Hunter on Ad-Hoc.

Hours of operation are from 10am to 8pm, seven days a week and will remain so until September 1.

The Gathering Hall is open to everyone providing they own a PSP and a copy of Monster Hunter.

More over on Capcom Unity.

Capcom’s told MCV it’s to “get serious” about Monster Hunter in Europe.

“What has been lacking in Europe in the past with the Monster Hunter series is definitely the promotion,” said producer Ryozo Tsujimoto.

“The PR and marketing for the last two titles in the series have been very limited, but this time we’re taking things far more seriously in terms of the promotion.”

The series, a huge hit in Japan, hits European PSPs this spring.

Full thing through there.

OXM (via CVG) has a few new details on Capcom’s slightly thawed shooter sequel, and — at least to us — it sounds a bit like Sony’s Shadow of the Colossus with some Monster Hunter thrown in for good measure.

“Lost Planet 2 will put a huge emphasis on your responsibility to your team,” said OXM. “Besides having you mind your own T-ENG reserves when the fighting gets rough, Capcom also plans to incorporate something called a ‘Team Military Power Bar.’ If you happen to die during a mission, you’ll be able to immediately respawn at a data post – but your team’s overall Military Power Bar will take a hit.”

Taking on the game’s “skyscraper-sized” bosses, then, requires players to stand on each others’ shoulders, metaphorically (and, we hope, sometimes literally) speaking.

“My three comrades have scattered to the winds,” said OXM of it first battle with a “three-story high” boss monster. ”

“A buddy has somehow grapple-hooked onto the back of the monster and is now riding it like a giant, living surfboard,” the Xbox-centric magazine added.

And then they pour cold steel into the unfortunate beast’s various glowing “hotspots” until it keels over. Sound familiar?

We’re pretty excited about this one — at least, so long as it lives up to OXM’s description.

More through the link.

Capcom’s announced that Monster Hunter Freedom 2G and Monster Hunter Freedom 2G PSP the Best have shipped three million units between them in Japan since last March.

Last year, Monster Hunter Freedom 2G sold more than any other game in the Japanese market, the now infamous adhoc “Party for PlayStation Portable” pushing the game hard.

March 11, 2009 is the fifth anniversary of the release of the first game in the Monster Hunter series, which to has sold a cumulative 8.5 million units.

The game will be heading Stateside this spring, retitled Monster Hunter Freedom Unite.

Press release after the jump.

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According to Famitsu – via Kotaku – PSP has now sold more than 10 million hardware units in Japan.

The figure was attained between the launch date of December 12, 2004 and August 24, 2008.

The top five bestselling games for the machine were also released. Capcom must be pleased.

• Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Capcom)
• Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Capcom)
• Crisis Core – Final Fantasy VII (Square Enix)
• Monster Hunter Portable (Capcom)
• Phantasy Star Portable (SEGA)

More through the link.