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Capcom updated the official Monster Hunter 4 website once more with Arena Challenge content. The page confirms that the feature will be back, but with some additions and changes.

You can find screenshots of the Arena Challenges and details below.

– Arena Challenge returns
– This has players going up against monsters using pre-set gear and items
– Has two new stages and features
– Test your hunting skills to see if you have what it takes to face the fearsome monsters in the arena
– Start a challenge by speaking with an NPC in the Arena counter
– Need to choose a set of gear to your liking
– Players’ times are recorded after beating a challenge
– Top-3 best times ranked for the quest
– Additionally, it will also indicate the ranking of other players whom you’ve shared Guild Cards with
– Can’t carry in your own equipment or items
– Also can’t carry material out of the arena
– Food effects won’t affect you in here
– After entering a challenge, players start out at the base camp
– Prep yourself here before going in
– When in the arena, you’ll have access to the fence, which is activated by a button
– Fence is useful while fighting a set of two monsters or more, by allowing you to split them apart and take care of them one at a time
– Need to time the fence button right
– If you don’t, you’ll end up having to fight two monsters with much less space
– Monster Hunter 4 has various types of arenas
– One area has two elevation levels, but no fences
– Stages usually vary based on the type of monster you’re up against

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Nintendo opened a new teaser site for Band Brothers P today, which contains a few more details about the title. You can access it here.

Intelligent Systems, the same developer behind Fire Emblem, is working on Band Brothers P. The game’s website also indicates that Vocaloid synthesizer software is being used – the same tech involved with production of Vocaloid music for virtual pop-stars including Hatsune Miku.

As mentioned previously, Band Brothers P can take advantage of the 3DS camera to take a picture and the built-in microphone to record your voice. In turn, your very own Vocaloid will be created.

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Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward suffered from a significant bug when it launched last year. All 3DS retail copies came with an issue that caused save corruption and game crashing.

Aksys finally published Virtue’s Last Reward on the eShop last week. As it turns out, this version comes without the bug. Now the question is: will the retail version finally be patched to address the glitch?

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Level-5 International America followed up on the company’s Japanese “Vision” announcements made earlier today. Overviews of two new titles, Layton 7 and Wonder Flick, were provided in an official recap.

First, here’s what Level-5 said of Layton 7:

LAYTON 7 is a puzzle game for the new generation that follows in the footsteps of the PROFESSOR LAYTON series, which has now shipped over 15 million units worldwide. Players take on various character roles; you may be a taxi driver, a young boy, a dog, a fine lady, a philanthropist, an elderly man, or even a zombie. The player will earn points as they fulfill a given role. But, what is the role of these characters? And what is the greater meaning of these roles to begin with? The latest title in the LAYTON series is shrouded in mystery and is about to begin! The game is being developed for Nintendo 3DS and iOS / Android devices as part of our UNIPLAY line-up. Release date has yet to be determined.

And here’s Wonder Flick:

WONDER FLICK is the latest full-scale role-playing game from LEVEL-5 and the inaugural UNIPLAY title. The production team consists of Akihiro Hino, who developed the concept and leads the project as producer / director, character designers Takuzo Nagano and Nao Ikeda, and musical compositions by Nobuo Uematsu, world-renowned for his contributions to game orchestrations. The player, “the fortunate one,” washes ashore in Grimnarth, a world that everyone dreamed of, yet no one has ever seen – an enormous land, scattered with dungeons and towns. A land where a monarch seeks aid in order to save his kingdom. A world of peril, where monsters and kings among dragons await. Where the success or failure of a journey depends on the deft execution of skills in critical moments, and fortunes are made from the rare treasures sealed in their chests. A wealth of equipment to customize one’s hero. The borrowing and lending of friends and their characters to form alliances. Everything that defines a traditional RPG is found in WONDER FLICK – the most sprawling yet accessible original fantasy RPG in the history of LEVEL-5. The game is planned for release in November 2013 on iOS and Android devices in Japan. Console releases (PS Vita / PS3 / PS4 / WiiU / Xbox One) are scheduled for 2014 in Japan.

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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies will not be released overseas as a physical product, according to producer Motohide Eshiro.

Eshiro shared the following in a new Capcom-Unity interview:

In response to fan feedback we looked into a western physical release of Dual Destinies but from the beginning of the project, one of our goals has been to bring the game to the western market much more quickly than we have been able to in the past. As text adventures, the Ace Attorney games require a lot of time for localization, so we really moved the proverbial mountains and had a lot of people work very hard to get the text localized as quickly as possible—while of course maintaining the high quality level fans are accustomed to.

As part of this, we made the decision to release on digital only in the west in order to take manufacturing time out of the equation and allow the release date to be as early as possible. So the answer is, no, Dual Destinies will be a digital download-only release in the west.

Capcom announced that the publisher would be bringing Dual Destinies to the west in May. The news was met with some backlash due to the eShop-only launch. Just a couple of months ago, however, Eshiro left the door open to a physical version. It sounds like such a possibility is no longer in the cards.

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Nintendo managed to secure three awards at this year’s Gamescom. Mario Kart 8 was selected in the “Best Wii U Game” and “Best Family Game” categories while Zelda: A Link Between Worlds was chosen as the “Best Mobile Game”.

You can find the full lineup of winners on our sister site.

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Professor Layton has been Level-5’s most-successful series. The franchise has spawned 15 million copies around the world since the original’s release, the company announced during its “Vision” event in Japan held earlier today.

Level-5 provided sales updates on other IPs, too. Inazuma Eleven has also been access with global sales reaching 6.5 million units. Meanwhile, combined sales of Ni no Kuni on the PlayStation 3 and DS stand at 1.4 million sales worldwide.

There’s also a bit of news about Level-5’s Guild series. The likes of Liberation Maiden, Aero Porter, and Crimson Shroud, have sold 400,000 digital copies in total. Around 50% of the share comes from overseas downloads.

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