Monster Hunter: World – Iceborne “Zinogre” Trailer, Developer Interview

Ahead of the September 6, 2019 release of the Iceborne expansion for Capcom’s Munster Hunter: World, we get a new trailer that showcases a few bits of gameplay featuring a beastie described as a thunder wolf wyvern that goes by Zinogre, as well as a number of Master Rank monsters. Check it out:

Then, there’s also this Eurogamer interview with Monster Hunter: World’s producer Ryozo Tsujimoto and directors Kaname Fujioka and Daisuke Ichihara that focuses on the game’s global success, its upcoming expansion, and the future of the series. An excerpt:

Monster Hunter World has done incredibly well in terms of sales – did these surpass your expectations?

Tsujimoto: With World, we were really pushing to bring the series global, so it’s the first time we’ve had a simultaneous global release for a Monster Hunter game in the west and in Japan, and we of course wanted to make it a big success – with every title in the series we’ve wanted to bring it to more people than the previous one, so we wanted to have an upward tick on the chart for sure. Still, it’s now Capcom’s best-selling game in history with over 10m sold, I think the current figure is 13m. So that absolutely blew away our expectations. But we’re not resting on our laurels, we want to make sure that with the expansion, people who still haven’t got on board with Monster Hunter still have a chance to see how great the game is.

Would you say that Monster Hunter World has “cracked the west”?

Tsujimoto: There will always be more people left who haven’t played the game – who don’t know about it, who aren’t interested yet – and as I said, we don’t want to sit back and be satisfied with our own achievements. I think it’s been the best success in the west yet for the entire series, but we’re always looking forward to see how we can make things bigger and better.