Author: Mogarth

Today, September 7th, 2016 at 3pm Sony held a “Playstation Meeting” in the Playstation Theater, New York. This meeting focused on the reveal for the new “PS4 Pro,” which is an upgraded version of the Playstation 4. The focus on this new console is enhanced visuals, greatly improved hardware, and a much 1 TB hard drive. The meeting started with the reveal of the Playstation 4 Slim, which will be the only “regular” Playstation 4 that will be available for purchase moving forward for Sony. The PS4 Slim will be sold for $299 and will be available on September 19th, 2016. Sony then briefly talked about Playstation VR and confirmed that it will be available starting next month. corinna kopf leak The focus of the meeting then shifted to the PS4 Pro, which until now has been code named “PS4 Neo.” They stated that this new console will nearly double the GPU power of the current PS4, will support 4K and HDR displays, a boosted clock rate which will increase frame rates, a 1TB hard drive, and Playstation VR support.
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Ever since its original release in spring of 1999 Pokemon Snap has been a fan favorite spin off of the ever popular Pokemon series. In this game players took the role of a Pokemon photographer who rode around in a cart on a quest to take pictures of all the Pokemon. This game played very much like a rail shooter but instead of shooting bullets the player shot photographs. Fans of Pokemon and Pokemon Snap have been clamoring for a sequel to this Nintendo 64 game ever since the introduction of motion controls that came with the Nintendo Wii. These pleads for a sequel were even louder with the release of the Wii U which seemed to be the perfect platform to launch a revival. With the continuation of motion controls and the separate game pad, which could have functioned as the player’s camera, but it never came. While a Pokemon Snap U does not seem to be on the horizon, Nintendo and the Pokemon Company have announced a new feature in Pokemon Sun & Moon called Poke’ Finder.
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Every so often Nintendo does a “Nintendo Direct” which is a live streamed video showing off their new products, or their new products which have received some major updates. They showed off one of these such directs this morning, which today took the form of a “Nintendo 3DS Direct.” This showed off quite a few new 3DS games, some updates for some existing 3DS games, and some new hardware. We have broken down what was shown in the direct in the order in which it was showed in their stream so if you do not have time to watch the entire 40 minute video you can easily get all the news here!
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After its announcement only a week ago the new streaming service offered by Sony, Playstation Now, has gone live as of today. This service allows players to stream over 400 Playstation 3 games directly to their Playstation 4, Windows PC, or Mac computers. The service is a $19.99 monthly fee, and is much like how Netflix and other streaming services operate. They have also offered a free 7 day trail, and an introductory offer that provides the service for the annual cost of $99.99.
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Monster Hunter is a beloved series that has seen games on multiple platforms such as the PSP, 3DS, PS2, PC, and now the Playstation 4. The game has even been adapted to an online MMORPG which took the form of Monster Hunter Frontier.

While Monster Hunter Frontier is a Japanese only PC game series, it has gotten some recent love in the states with the recently released Monster Hunter Generations for the Nintendo 3DS, which received overall positive reviews.
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