Ok, I just got the green light from Nintendo to set up the Supporter’s Page, similar to the MHFU one.

I will create it later this evening. Basically you send me an orginal picture of the gamebox with some sign showing that it’s yours (like your gamefaqs name, or yourself on the picture). I’ll put those pictures up on RotR so everybody can see who’s supporting the franchise. Show your pride.

Why? I’m getting some swag (nothing too big, so no Wii or huge statues) from Nintendo to spread the love. I’ll make a raffle every 50 entries and draw one price for a lucky winner. So, the more entries I get the more prices are there to win. Send your picture to mh3supporter@reign-of-the-rathalos.com.

See the entries, once they are starting to dribble in, here:

http://mh3.reign-of-the-rathalos.com/supporters/

• I've received awesome help of some peeps from gameFAQs on the data work for the Weapon Calculator MH3. Thanks a bunch, guys! #
• Monster Hunter Tri: The Hunters Photo Album. Show yourself to the world. http://bit.ly/bHUW4S #mhtri #mh3 #nintendo #wii #
• Comparing Monster Hunter: MHFU – 122 Long Swords, MH3 – 23 Long Swords. This time is quality above quantit.y. At least I hope so. #mh3 #
• Back to work for Tuesday. I have all the weapon lines for MH3 now as raw data. Next they'll go into the database. #
• For the raw data I have to thank: WhiteHawk1532, Bryan and SpiderCVIII. Work in progress: http://mh3.reign-of-the-rathalos.com/calc/ #
• Firefox Persona still in the works. #
• IGN UK reviews Monster Hunter Tri as 9.3 / 10. http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/108/1083358p1.html #wii #mh3 #
• Cheezeburger much? Enter the lolfelyne contest: http://bit.ly/932I79! #capcom #us #monster hunter #
• IGN US rates Monster Hunter Tri as 8.8 / 10. http://go.ign.com/ck76eW #
• MH3 Weapon Calc: Weapon data and attack percentages are now in the database. Let's do the coding now. #
• Monster Hunter Tri: Current Metacritic score is 87 / 100. Dragged down by a NTSC-uk review. http://bit.ly/dd8Zok #
• Monster Hunter Tri on C.A.D: Page 2. http://www.cad-comic.com/ Actually it's a good introduction to the game. #
• Extract from CADs Monster Hunter: Fish + Mushroom = Fishroom http://twitpic.com/1fra9s #
• Monster Hunter Tri: Weapon Calculator released. http://mh3.reign-of-the-rathalos.com/calc/ #wii #capcom #monster hunter #mh3 #
• @iHunt_News So you can't access http://www.facebook.com/monsterhuntertri too? in reply to iHunt_News #

PHEW! That was work.

Go ahead and try the next generation of weapon calculators

http://mh3.reign-of-the-rathalos.com/calc/

• MH3 Weapon Calculator user interface finished. Take a look http://bit.ly/aKv6Yc #
• I complained about the Europe MH3 campaign and now I feel bad about it. Still, the tremor in the force is weak. #
• A Firefox Persona for RotR? I shall perform now. #
• @mazda254i Yes. 13 days. in reply to mazda254i #
• MGS Peace Walker vs Tigrex. OH LOL? http://bit.ly/9akW2e #
• Oh and btw, the Famitsu which contained that info was the April one. Just saying. #
• MGS vs Monster Hunter: No april fools joke. Here's a vid of Snake cooking meat: http://www.twitvid.com/QMKTJ #
• Robot suits? Check. Eyepatch? Check. Cardboard box? Check. Huge giant yellow dinosaur monster? Che….wait, what? #mgs #mh #
• SUPER EPIC: Snake Vs Tigrex in video: http://bit.ly/a5sZSC #mgs #peacewalker #mh #
• Monster Hunter Content Confirmed in US Peace Walker http://bit.ly/buFQ8U #
• Malcom McLaren has died of cancer. No more anarchy in the UK….Rest in peace. #
• Monster Hunter on Ctrl-Alt-Delete: http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/ #

More coming soon, but here’s what you can expect:

In other news: Rathalos has won. HAHAHAHH PFRTZ. That’s what you get for Rapid Fire and Clust Spam!

• David Reeves (Ex-CEO Sony Europe) is now COO of Capcom Europe. Welcome! #capcom #
• @atheistium http://www.reign-of-the-rathalos.com/2010/04/capcom-announces-mhfrontier-for-ipad/ in reply to atheistium #
• Working hard now for the MH3 Weapon Calc. It will be the first visually compelling calculator I've done. A teaser? http://bit.ly/aKv6Yc #

In a somehow totally surprising move CAPCOM announced another iPhone/iPad related release of one of their major franchises. After Street Fighter and Megaman they have decided to finally bring Monster Hunter to the touches of your fingers.

Demo of Espinas on the iPad

Controls are done with swiping and pinching commands. The hammer pounds for example are simple taps followed by a swipe to the golfswing. There are no virtual joypads, item use will be done by tapping on the inventory.

They state that the whole MMO aspect of Frontier will be transported to the iPad. Support for the OpenFeint is included. It’s available for download in the App Store at the iPad launch date for $29.99, making it the highest priced title in the iPad store as of now.

Initative for buying an iPad? No more needed for me!

Sources: Kotaku, touchArcade, CAPCOM US

Edit: Oops, did I post this on the first of April?

• Youtube down? Wow. "It's not just you! http://youtube.com looks down from here. " http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/youtube.com #
• MH3 artistic contest coming up. Watch this space: http://bit.ly/cYyyO6 Follow and RT for a chance for a MH goodie. Winner drawn on 1st Apr #

• MH3 Comments Wall http://is.gd/aoDEC #
• Monster Hunter Portable 3rd announced!!! http://www.capcom.co.jp/monsterhunter/P3rd/ #PSP #MH3 #
• MH3 Photo Album opened. Get yourself known and see the faces behind the skills. http://mh3.reign-of-the-rathalos.com/photoalbum/ #
• Updated information from sonsaru on MHP3rd: http://www.reign-of-the-rathalos.com/2010/03/capcom-jp-announces-mhp-3rd/ #

The Monster Hunter Wikia page has become something really really good. It started awful some years ago and for a long time it didn’t look promising.

But under the regency of Bobofango the content and presentation really went stellar. I applaud you guys.

Well, that being said, I spent this week thinking about the benefits I can add to the data already provided there. The data on the MH3 Wikia is well presented, it’s very complete and structured, you can get every info you want with a few clicks. However, it’s a static presentation, so linking must be done manually and you can’t aggregate the data (like I did for MHFU).

Still I am unsure if these aggregations are so much more useful that they warrant the considerable effort needed to create databases, tables, functions and last but not least, raw data for those tables. What do you guys think? Shall I provide another data outlet with similar or slightly enhanced benefits than the Wikia or shall I not bother and instead focus on calculators and other tools?

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