Monster Hunter: World News

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne sales reach 6.6 million

November 11, 2020 Monster Hunter World: Iceborne has reached another massive sales milestone.

Earlier this year, Monster Hunter World: Iceborne made the leap to PC from consoles, with Capcom announcing at the time its Steam release helped push the expansion past four million sales. Now, close to the end of the year, Iceborne has shipped 6.6 million units across all of its platforms.

Capcom updated its sales ranking site with the new numbers today, as Gematsu notes. That's up from the five million announced back in March, so even if Iceborne isn't selling as fast as it once did, plenty of new players have been jumping in.

Base Monster Hunter World sales hit 16.4 million units sold in today's update, further cementing its position as Capcom's best-selling game of all time. According to the statement in March, the long-running Monster Hunter series as a whole has had cumulative sales of over "62 million units, as of March 13, 2020". That's a whole lot of units.

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Ver. 15.10.00 Information

Ver. 15.10.00, which contains game updates and other fixes, will be released in early December 2020.

[Major Additions & Changes]
■ The Red Dragon siege event will now feature 1 and 2 player scaling difficulty.

■ The following items can now be melded at the Elder Melder:
- Astera Fest Tickets: Spring Blossom Tickets, Summer Twilight Tickets, Autumn Harvest Tickets, Winter Star Tickets, Appreciation Tickets
- ☆ Seliana Fest Tickets: Full Bloom Tickets, Sizzling Spice Tickets, Fun Fright Tickets, Joyful Tickets, Gratitude Tickets
- ☆ Seliana Fest VIP Tickets: VIP Full Bloom Tickets, VIP Sizzling Spice Tickets, VIP Fun Fright Tickets, VIP Joyful Tickets, VIP Gratitude Tickets

Contents marked with ☆ require the purchase of Monster Hunter World: Iceborne.

[Bug Fixes]
■ Some bugs and other issues have been fixed.

Important:
Matchmaking in Monster Hunter World: Iceborne requires players to have updated to the same version. Keep in mind that you can only match with other players who have the same update. You can verify the version number in the bottom-right corner of the title screen.

For other questions, please visit the official Monster Hunter World: Iceborne support portal below.
http://www.capcom.com/mhwsupport/

New Hunting Party Pack!

As a thank you to all the hunters out there who have played Monster Hunter: World and Iceborne, we're releasing a free item pack with useful multiplayer items!

You can claim your item pack by logging in and checking your login bonuses during the period listed below. It's available for a limited time only, so don't miss out!

Note: If you do not see the item pack in your login bonuses, try closing the game, updating to the latest version, and checking your login bonuses again the next day.

■Item Pack Name
New Hunting Party Pack

■Availability
Friday, November 6 at 0:00 UTC to Thursday, November 26 at 23:59 UTC
(Thursday, November 5 at 4 p.m. PST to Thursday, November 26 at 3:59 p.m. PST)

■Item Pack Contents
Gourmet Voucher　　 x 30
Mega Nutrients 　　　x 100
Nourishing Extract 　　x 100
Whetfish Fin+ 　　　　x 100
Great Sushifish Scale 　x 100

Important:
Matchmaking in Monster Hunter World: Iceborne requires players to have updated to the same version. Keep in mind that you can only match with other players who have the same update. You can verify the version number in the bottom-right corner of the title screen.

For other questions, please visit the official Monster Hunter World: Iceborne support portal below.
http://www.capcom.com/mhwsupport/

The Monster Hunter movie trailer shows off 5 familiar monsters

The Monster Hunter movie's first full trailer is out in the wild, following a very brief teaser earlier in the month. We get to see Milla Jovovich, Tony Jaa, and their soldier pals get into plenty of peril, but more importantly we get a good look at some of the lovely monsters that have been rudely interrupted by these gun-toting humans. First, let's get up to speed. Captain Artemis (Jovovich) and her squad of soldiers find themselves transported to the world of Monster Hunter by a sandstorm—very Wizard of Oz—and quickly discover that their guns are no match for big ol' dragons. They've got to get help from Hunter (Jaa) and Admiral (Ron Perlman) to survive, and along the way there's a whole world-saving quest and presumably a few fights. If you erase all the bits with soldiers and modern guns, it does look a great deal like Monster Hunter, with the creatures pretty faithfully recreated. There are a few more nods to the game, like the slinger getting Artemis out of danger, and we'll even see the Meowscular Chef, a palico from Monster Hunter World, though sadly he doesn't appear in the trailer. Five of the series' monsters show up, though it's safe to assume we'll see a whole lot more. That $60 million must have gone somewhere. First off, we get another look at the diablos, which is surprisingly good at sneaking up on people given its size. It hangs out underneath the sand and then jumps out when it gets visitors. After the amount of times it killed me in Monster Hunter World, I've still got a grudge. It's followed by some much nicer—but still pretty dangerous—apceros. They probably won't want to eat the soldier buds, but pretty much everything in Monster Hunter is dangerous, and those tails sure look like they'd pack a wallop. I'd still take them over the creepy nerscylla, the giant arachnids we see chasing Artemis and her gang. They're awful. Along with the diablos, the trailer squeezes in an elder dragon, gore magala, and another huge wyvern: a fire-spewing rathalos. That's a lot of heavy-hitters for a two minute trailer, and probably a bit too much for a group of soldiers who've maybe never even played Monster Hunter to take on. It was previously delayed until April 2021, but it's now set to appear on December 30 in the US and "soon" elsewhere.

Monster Hunter movie will have Palicoes and Meowscular Chef

During a panel at this year's New York Comic Con, Monster Hunter movie director Paul W. S. Anderson talked about all the monsters he crammed into the film. We already knew about the massive beasts, but Anderson confirmed some fan favourite critters are making an appearance too.

In the panel (ta, IGN), Anderson stated that Palicoes, small, feline companions from Monster Hunter: World, are a staple aspect of his production. "Well, you couldn't make a Monster Hunter movie without having a Palico in it," he said. "So definitely we lean into the Palico." In Monster Hunter: World, players only get one Palico during the entirety of the action-RPG game, so the bond becomes quite special. In context here, that means Tony Jaa, who's an established hunter in the film, should have a Palico pal by the time we meet him in the plot.

One famous Palico is Meowscular Chef, who retired from the hunting game in World to be a cook after assisting the Admiral, who'll be portrayed by Ron Perlman on the big screen, for years. According to Anderson, Meowscular and star Milla Jovovich develop a rapport, of sorts. "We have one of the characters, Meowscular Chef, who's the Admiral's sidekick, who's a fantastic character, who has this rather flirtatious relationship with Milla, which is really interesting," he stated.

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