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Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin has been announced for Nintendo Switch by Capcom as part of today’s Nintendo Direct Mini Partner Showcase.

The cel-shaded story-led RPG releases Summer 2021, and casts you as a monster rider rather than a hunter. As the descendant of a legendary monster rider known as Red, your story will start with the investigation of mass disappearance of Rathalos from their natural habitats.

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It’s promised that you’ll be able to ride and forge bonds with a variety of well-known Monster Hunter beasts. From the trailer, we know that the Rathalos and Anjanath will be among them.

In addition to Wings of Ruin being a story-led RPG in the Monster Hunter universe, Capcom has also said that there will be ‘compatability’ with the upcoming Monster Hunter Rise on Switch. It’s not yet clear what that connectivity will be.

The previous game in the series was well received by us; our Monster Hunter Stories review praised the 3DS game as being a spin-off that does the series proud. It did away with the RPG grind and used a novel turn-based battle system for a true JRPG experience.

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Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer. 

Capcom has announced Monster Hunter Rise for Nintendo Switch. It will arrive on March 26, 2021.

The game resembles a traditional Monster Hunter, but with far more freedom of movement, and the Rise title is meant to communicate the idea of verticality, which will be a major part of the game. Players will be able to use new Wirebugs, which act as a grappling hook. The Wirebug can be used in combat too, to allow for more versatile, fast-paced combat.

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Areas in the game will be seamless, open locations, as in Monster Hunter World. Your base will be Kamura Village, which will be filled with characters to meet, who will form the basis of the story.

Rise also includes a new dog-like companion character called a Palamute, that can be ridden through the environments, and will aid you in combat. Palicos also return and act as support characters. In single player, players can bring two companions (in any combination of Palamutes and Palicos), and in multiplayer players bring one.

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Monster Hunter Rise features a number of new monsters, including fire-breathing bird Aknosom, inflating amphibian Tetranadon, the wolf-like bird wyvern Great Izuchi, and what seems to be the game’s headline monster, the Chinese dragon-like Magnamalo. Arzuros will also return from previous games, with many more returing and new monsters to be announced. As in Monster Hunter World, monsters can encounter and fight each other without the player’s input.

The game will come in standard and deluxe editions. The deluxe edition features the base game and a bundle of DLC including armour, gestures, and cosmetics. Pre-order bonuses will be offered, adding some (tremendously cute) layered armour sets for Palamutes and Palicos, as well as a talisman item to help novices in the early game. Pre-orders for the download version of the game will open today. Three new Amiibo will also be released, of Palamute, Palico and Magnamalo.

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The game appears to feature more English language voice acting than previous installments in the series. It’s just one of two new Monster Hunter games announced today, along with Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin – both games will be compatible with one another in some form, although Capcom hasn’t yet said exactly how.

Technically, we had two Nintendo Directs today – you can check out everything announced and shown in them right now.

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The latest patch for Madden NFL 21 has arrived, and it addresses a number of relatively small issues with the game and one big one. Starting with the big one, the September 16 patch fixes an issue that could prevent the PC edition from launching at all.

The update, which is out now on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, also addressed multiple issues with passing and fake kick run plays in the MUT Squads mode. It also fixes a general gameplay bug that stopped players from passing the ball after a handoff in a a run-pass-option play.

You can see the full patch notes below, as posted by EA on the Madden forums.

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Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, the first new game in the series since 2012’s Medal of Honor: Warfighter, has a release date. The VR title from Respawn (Titanfall 2, Apex Legends) will release on December 11 through the Oculus Store and Steam.

The game, which features both a single-player campaign and multiplayer modes, will feature stories from WWII veterans and survivors about their experiences, which will also influence the game’s levels. The whole game will be set during the second World War, marking a return after the PS3/Xbox 360 reboot transplanted the series into the modern day.

Work on the game began four years ago, and involved a lot of travel to research the areas depicted in the game, as well as interviews with veterans. The game is touted as featuring a “movie’s worth of narrative performance” in a press release sent to GameSpot, with 120 pages of scripted narrative captured.

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It’s been a very big day for the PlayStation 5, as we finally know the price, release date, and launch lineup for Sony’s next-generation console. While people are excited by Sony’s various announcements, the situation surrounding pre-orders has been something of a fiasco.

Sony confirmed the PS5 launch date and price during its reveal event, but a bigger surprise was that pre-orders were available … immediately. This led to a global race to secure the PS5 before retailers ran out of stock–and they did. It’s not a surprise that the system was a hot commodity but the issue for many was that Sony gave no warning about pre-orders.

Actually, they did, but the message was not consistent. Worldwide marketing boss Eric Lempel said back in July (via IGN) that Sony would be forthcoming and transparent about the pre-order details for the PS5 so people could plan and prepare. But that didn’t happen. Here’s Lempel in July: “I think it’s safe to say…we’ll let you know when preorder will happen. It’s not going to happen with a minute’s notice. We’re going to at some point let you know when you can preorder PlayStation 5,” he told Geoff Keighley. So, please, don’t feel like you have to go run out and line up anywhere until you receive official notice on how that will work.”

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