Nintendo eShop Down, Seemingly Due to Monster Hunter Rise Demo Demand

The Nintendo eShop is currently down for unscheduled “emergency maintenance”, which may be due to demand for the recently released Monster Hunter Rise demo.

The eShop has been down for at least 4 hours at time of writing, with Nintendo’s Japanese customer support Twitter account repeatedly apologising for the issues, but offering no timescale for a fix.

While neither Nintendo or Capcom has specifically commented on the connection, the outage coincides with the release of the demo for Monster Hunter Rise, which includes two quests and two tutorials for the upcoming Switch exclusive.

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IGN UK Podcast #574: The Big 2021 Games Preview

Cardy, Dale and Jesse are here to all the games that they’re looking forward to (potentially) playing in 2021. Half of them probably won’t actually be released but we can only hope for the best. Before getting to that long list though we talk through some of the games, films and TV shows that we enjoyed over Christmas which ranges from regency romance to cannibal infested woodland.

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IGN UK Podcast #574: The Big 2021 Games Preview

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