{"id":7832,"date":"2015-12-07T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capcom.co.jp\/ir\/news\/.html"},"modified":"2021-10-19T11:11:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T02:11:20","slug":"e151207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capcom.co.jp\/ir\/english\/news\/html\/e151207.html","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Official Chinese Service Launch of December 17 Announced for<br>&#8220;Monster Hunter Online&#8221;!<\/strong><br>&#8211; Japan&#8217;s favorite hunting action series set to stir up &#8220;Monster Hunter Craze&#8221; in China &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"mainText\">\n\n<p>Capcom Co., Ltd. (Capcom) today announced an official service start date of December 17, 2015 for &quot;Monster Hunter Online&quot;, an online game for the PC rolling out in China in cooperation with Tencent Holdings Limited.<\/p>\n\n<p>The &quot;Monster Hunter&quot; series features hunting action games that pit players against giant monsters in a beautiful natural environment. The series sparked a social phenomenon known as the &quot;Monster Hunter Craze&quot; after gaining popularity primarily among young users with its wireless and online cooperative play. Since the first &quot;Monster Hunter&quot; title made its debut in 2004 the series has expanded beyond games into other media, and overall has grown into a mega-hit with cumulative sales of more than 35 million units as of December 3, 2015.<\/p>\n\n<p>&quot;Monster Hunter Online&quot; represents a new kind of &quot;Monster Hunter&quot;, and will launch in China in cooperation with Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Limited. Since the game&#8217;s pre-launch on November 27, it has held the number one spot for the most anticipated PC online game on the website &quot;duowan.com&quot;, China&#8217;s premiere video game authority; favorable reviews from within the market such as this helped solidify the official service start date.<\/p>\n\n<p>Capcom remains firmly committed to satisfying the expectations of all users by making the most of its industry-leading game development capabilities in order to create highly entertaining games for the ever-expanding global market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <h4 class=\"mB5\"> [ Product Details ]<\/h4>\n\n<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n <tr>\n <td width=\"20%\" class=\"blue\">1. Title<\/td>\n <td width=\"45%\">Monster Hunter Online<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td class=\"blue\">2. Genre<\/td>\n <td>Action  RPG<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"blue\">3. Platform<\/td>\n<td>PC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n  <td class=\"blue\">4. Region<\/td>\n  <td class=\"vM\">China *Excluding Hong Kong and Macau<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"blue\">5. Official Scheduled Service Start Date<\/td>\n<td class=\"vM\">December 17, 2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"layout mT15\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"txtC\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ir\/news\/html\/images\/151207a.png\">\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"txtC\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ir\/news\/html\/images\/151207b.png\">\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n<\/div><!-- mainText -->\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capcom Co., Ltd. (Capcom) today announced an official service start date of December 17, 2015 for &quot;Monste [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[934],"tags":[1819],"class_list":["post-7832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product","tag-__"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"lang":"english","translations":{"english":7832,"ja":2578},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.capcom.co.jp\/ir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.capcom.co.jp\/ir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.capcom.co.jp\/ir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.capcom.co.jp\/ir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.capcom.co.jp\/ir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.capcom.co.jp\/ir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7842,"href":"https:\/\/www.capcom.co.jp\/ir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832\/revisions\/7842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.capcom.co.jp\/ir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.capcom.co.jp\/ir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.capcom.co.jp\/ir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}