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Capcom's Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch for iOS and Android on October 29, with a mainland China version scheduled for 2027. The open-world survival game supports multiplayer and a character-switch system, and adds a new Elder Dragon, Ruger Aidal. Chinese developer TiMi Studio Group is handling development, with franchise composer Tadayoshi Makino returning for the music.
Jotoyo will hold a limited-time playtest for its hunting life simulation Monster Fantasy starting September 22, with sign-ups open on Steam and test contents to be detailed later. The game pairs hunting actions against roughly 50 large monsters with fishing, logging, mining, cooking, and crafting, plus four jobs and about 100 villagers. The team says Monster Hunter is one inspiration.
NHK's game music concert Symphonic Gamers 5, subtitled Melodies of Adventure Across Time and Space, returns to NHK BS at 0:40 on September 20, late night on September 19. The broadcast covers an orchestral program drawn from the Super Mario series, the Monster Hunter series, Kirby Air Ride, Chrono Trigger, Journey, Shadow of the Colossus, Tales of the Abyss, Granblue Fantasy, Okami, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, and Final Fantasy IX. Game director Masahiro Sakurai and voice actress Ruriko Aoki appear as MCs. The setlist runs from Super Mario's Above Ground BGM and Piranha March through Monster Hunter's Proof of a Hero and its Wilds version, Kirby Air Ride's Legendary Air Ride Machine, Chrono Trigger's Wind Scene and Frog's Theme, Okami's Reset (Thank You Version), Sakuna's Yanato Rice Planting Song, and Final Fantasy IX's Battle 1 and The Place I'll Return to Someday. NHK's official website and the streaming service NHK ONE carry performer and setlist details.
URAKITA Workshop, also written as URAKITA Kobo in one source, is selling a storage case shaped like the Large Barrel Bomb item from the Monster Hunter series. The case reproduces the metal parts of the in-game bomb with matte resin molding and uses domestic wood finished with traditional barrel joinery. The sides carry three-dimensional Barrel Bomb and Guild Emblem icons made through metal engraving, and the Monster Hunter series logo is printed on the bottom exterior. The item doubles as a piggy bank because its lid includes a coin slot. Priced at 4,290 yen including tax, the case has been available on the URAKITA direct sales site since August 25, with shipping scheduled for the end of September 2026. Both Inside and Game Spark reported the product, with Game Spark adding related Monster Hunter product links in its article.
Capcom opened CAPCOMIX Minato Mirai, a new experiential facility in Yokohama, on July 17. The venue combines physical activity with Capcom IPs in the Crazy BANeT area, plus a VR-X zone with Street Fighter, Onimusha, and Resident Evil content, a kids' area, a trial play corner, and a store. Pricing starts at 2,300 yen for 90 minutes on weekdays, with a special opening price of 500 yen for 60 minutes for app members through July 31. A preview event featured comedian Hollywood Zakoshisho demonstrating the activities.
Anime News Network published a five-part roundup of Tanabata greetings from across the anime, manga, and video game industries on July 7, 2026. The collection includes wishes and illustrations from official accounts for series such as Bungo Stray Dogs, Detective Conan, My Hero Academia, Sakamoto Days, Doraemon, Chibi Maruko-chan, Hell's Paradise, and Dragon Quest. Video game franchises like Final Fantasy, Monster Hunter, and Like a Dragon also participated, alongside creators including Hideo Kojima, Yuki Kaji, and Shoko Nakagawa. Several series tied their posts to new releases: the second season of Yoroi Shin Den Samurai Troopers premiered on July 7, My Happy Marriage released a special Tanabata illustration and announced a three-episode special for 2026, and My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren't Wicked began airing on July 8. The roundup also features greetings from manga titles like Chiikawa, MARRIAGETOXIN, and Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, as well as from studios Tatsunoko Production and Square Enix.
Pop Mart will release a set of 13 Monster Hunter Palico figures on June 26, 2026. The blind-box series includes Palicoes wearing equipment from Tigrex, Zinogre, Gore Magala, and a Rathalos-equipped Navirou from Monster Hunter Stories. Each box costs 1,760 yen, and a 12-box assortment is 21,120 yen.
Yoshio Nishimura, who led background art at Vanillaware for over twenty years, left the studio during the pandemic and moved to a village of 1,200 people in Nara Prefecture. He spent six years developing Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle under his own label, Digitalis Publishing. Studio head George Kamitani framed the departure as a "graduation" and the first case of a planned strategy to let senior creators open their own shops.
Good Smile Fest 2026 Tokyo, held on June 6, 2026, featured a wide array of new figure prototypes and painted samples from Good Smile Company. The event included first-time exhibitions of polyester and polyurethane figures from 'New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt,' a color sample of Cutie Honey from 'Cutie Honey Nova,' and figures from 'City the Animation' featuring Minami Mitori, Niikura, and Izumi Wako. In the game titles category, new items included a Nendoroid of Hideo Kojima, painted samples of Tidus and Yuna from 'Final Fantasy X,' and figures from 'Fate/Grand Order,' 'Steins;Gate,' and 'Bunny Garden 2.' The social game edition showcased numerous figures from 'Azur Lane,' including Howden Leeuw, New Jersey, Taihou, and Mogador, as well as items from 'Uma Musume: Pretty Derby' and 'Fate/Grand Order.' The event also displayed 'POP UP PARADE BEACH QUEENS' figures of Rei Ayanami and Asuka Langley Shikinami from 'Evangelion: New Theatrical Edition' and a prototype from 'Mononoke the Movie: The Medicine Seller.'