Monster Hunter news (March 17th): Monster Hunter XX / Monster Hunter Stories

Monster Hunter XX

For fans of the Monster Hunter series, today is a pretty important day: the latest entry in the series, Monster Hunter XX, is now available in Japan via the Nintendo eShop (the retail release will be available in stores in a few hours). To celebrate this launch, Capcom upload two web commercials, along with three more making of video for said commercials.

Here they are:

And here’s some videos from Famitsu:

Next, here’s some pictures of the official Monster Hunter Data Book from Famitsu, releasing at the same time as the game itself (264 pages, 740 Yen):

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Source: 4Gamer / Famitsu / Gamer

Monster Hunter Stories

Monster Hunter XX may be available in store, that doesn’t mean Capcom is done with Monster Hunter Stories. Today, one more sub-quest was released, where players get to battle the Gold Rathian.

Here’s some pictures for that sub-quest:

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