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Naruto & Monster Hunter Online Games' 1st Trailers Streamed
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
The websites for the official Chinese online games of Naruto and Monster Hunter opened on Tuesday and Thursday, respectively, and began streaming their first trailers.
Tencent is also streaming a collection of videos previewing Naruto Online's battles and gameplay:
Namco Bandai Games announced its Naruto Online collaboration with China's Tencent Games and Naruto Ultimate games' CyberConnect2 in January, but the Monster Hunter Online game was just announced on Thursday. CAPCOM and Tencent are collaborating on Monster Hunter Online, and the game uses the CryEngine3 development toolset from Crytek (Far Cry, Crysis)
Naruto Online will debut this fall. It will be Namco Bandai's first foray into PC online games in China. A 2011 white paper on the Chinese game industry reported that the online game marketplace in China garnered 44.6 billion yuan (about 550 billion yen or US$7.16 billion) in revenue.
[Via Saiyan Island, Hachima Kikō, VG247]
