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Capcom put up an official interview with Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate directors Kaname Fujioka and Yuya Tokuda. Watch it in full below.

Questions asked in the video include (with times during the video):

0:42 Could you give us an overview of the monster design process?
1:43 What was the most challenging monster to develop?
3:00 Which returning monster was the most challenging to bring to the MH4U gameplay engine?
4:09 What was the most fun monster to design?
5:33 Which was the most challenging weapon to balance in MH4U?
7:18 How was the process of balancing the Life Honing feature?
9:07 How did you come up with the Charge Blade’s Guard Point mechanic?
11:07 How did you come up with the specific features to Seregios’s weapons (Auto-Sharpening, Auto-Reload)?
12:47 How did you settle on Mounting as the core feature of MH4U?

And questions that aren’t specific to the game:

14:51 Why is Monoblos only available for hunting in Single-Player quests?
16:15 What is the language the Diva uses while singing?
17:48 How is a flagship monster created, and why is that a necessary feature of the game?

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New details about Ace Attorney 6 are emerging from Jump Festa 2016.

First up, Athena Cykes will be returning in the game. She previously appeared in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies. Also shown in a demo at Jump Festa, free investigations from previous titles will be possible.

We’ll keep you updated as we hear more about Ace Attorney 6.

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Capcom announced an anime based on Ace Attorney during the Tokyo Game Show back in September. Today, a few fresh details about the project were shared.

A-1 Pictures (Fairy Tail, Sword Art Online, lots more) is behind the Ace Attorney anime. Ayumu Watanabe is directing, and Kaoru Wada is composing.

Here’s the cast:

– Yuuki Kaji as Phoenix
– Aoi Yuuki as Maya
– Masashi Tamaki as Edgeworth
– Chie Nakamura as Mia
– Masami Iwasaki as Gumshoe
– Tooru Nara as Larry

The Ace Attorney anime will air on Saturdays via YTV starting in April 2016.

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Capcom brought Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure to the European Wii U eShop last week as a Wii download. For a look at the title, watch the video below.

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The latest Capcom TV has wrapped up, and excerpts have been uploaded online. Two segments for Monster Hunter Stories and Mega Man Legacy Collection can be found below. For the latter one, there’s not much in the way of gameplay, but we do get a look at the new 3DS themes.

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On December 16, a soundtrack for Monster Hunter X will be sold in Japan. Capcom published a video today giving fans a behind the scenes look at a bit of the musical recording. View it below.

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Since Monster Hunter X is only out in Japan at the moment, there aren’t a whole lot of reviews floating around for the game. Famitsu did share one in a recent issue, however. Monster Hunter X earned “9’s” from four different editors for a total score of 36 out of 40.

Interested in knowing how Famitsu’s editors felt about the game? Head past the break for a full translation of the magazine’s review.

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Media Create’s latest report had Monster Hunter X at nearly 1.5 million unit sold. As it turns out, the game sold through 91.84 percent of its initial shipment. Media Create also says that pre-orders were at 936,000 copies.

How does Monster Hunter X stack up to the previous game in the series? Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (4G) sold 1,446,289 copies with a sell-through of 85.40 percent. Pre-orders were similar, as that title had 929,000 units reservations.

In terms of hardware, Monster Hunter X helped boost 3DS sales by 362.53 percent. 196,000 systems were sold across all platforms during the week, up 206.19 percent from the previous week.

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Data provided by the likes of Media Create and Famitsu indicated that Monster Hunter X had sold 1.5 million copies in Japan thus far. Amazingly, that high figure was achieved in just a couple of days.

Capcom has also now followed up with its own sales announcement. The publisher said in a press release today that shipments for Monster Hunter X are at 2 million units. This includes retail copies, plus sales on the eShop and download cards.

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Famitsu has reported the first sales data for Monster Hunter X. According to the site, 1,542,104 copies of the game were sold in just two days.

Monster Hunter X’s launch also had a big impact on 3DS hardware sales. Famitsu says that 3DS hardware sales were at 133,628 units.

We’ll have more sales numbers from Japan tomorrow morning, so stay tuned for that.

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