Music streaming services have gotten very popular in the United States with companies such as Rdio, Spotify and Rhapsody. Similar services are also used in Japan because the public is less inclined to purchase individual albums these days. For the gaming crowd, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan has just started a new service called PlayStation Game Music that’s used in conjunction with streaming music services that are already available.

While I’m sure none of you ever doubted Capcom’s Monster Hunter 3DS game would receive a worldwide release, the first hints at one have just appeared. An early scan of the next issue of Official Nintendo Magazine has appeared, and Monster Hunter 3G features prominently. In fact, it says it will be appearing in Europe during Fall 2012.

The ONM scan was initially referred to as a rumor…

While Monster Hunter 3G for the 3DS is exciting and all, what with it being among the first games to use the slide pad and the first entry in the series on a Nintendo handheld, there’s a significant downside to this portable adventure. Mainly the fact that multiplayer won’t be what you expect it to be. It’s only local…

As in all Monster Hunter games, Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G starts with a nameless, amateur monster hunter. You customize him or her to your liking, then start your new life in a small, rural town. Your goal is to become a master hunter, capable of protecting the village and taking down the biggest and baddest monsters in the wild so you can complete missions, cook food, catch bugs, gather treasure and craft awesome equipment…

Look! Wait, not so obvious! I think that’s a Barioth. It’s heading this way! Quick, grab your iOS device and bring up Monster Hunter Dynamic Hunting so you can take that beast down! Capcom’s battling app was just released on iTunes today.

This $4.99 iPhone, iPad and iPod game isn’t exactly like the console and handheld incarnations of Monster Hunter…

Monster Hunter is about to get casual. Capcom is going to cash in and bring the series to a whole new generation of gamers – those who can’t leave home without an iOS device. This means by the end of June 2011, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch owners will be able to pick up Monster Hunter: Dynamic Hunting and take down some dinosaur-esque monsters…

Monster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Airu Village, also known as MonHun Nikki: Poka Poka Airu Mura, comes out next week in Japan on August 26, 2010 and will absolutely change the way you think of Monster Hunter. Even though it’s only a spin-off PSP game, once you see it, you can’t unsee it. I mean, can you really go back to hunting Popo as a human character after watching a group of adorable Felynes undertake the same hunt? Of course not!

Let’s watch the trailer. Brace yourself – it’s adorable…

Capcom will start to introduce more paid content to go along with its games. Dead Rising: Case Zero is coming to XBLA at the end of August, and it’s serving as a testing ground for Capcom’s new strategy. Capcom believes offering additional content will keep gamers playing its titles for extended periods of time. This prevents the games from being permanently shelved or traded in. Since games are costing millions of dollars to produce, companies such as Capcom must find a way to generate more money other than the initial $59.99 investment from gamers.

Wii owners can now know the joy of having their phones tell them when it’s time to take part in a righteous Monster Hunter Tri quest. Capcom’s updated the official Monster Hunter Community site to show the Quest Events. You just click the second icon on the main page, the one that sort of looks like a gem, and a listing comes up of all the forthcoming Arena and Event Quests…

Capcom, masters of the video game cameo appearance, are on pace to outdo itself with Lost Planet 2.

In January 2010, the publisher announced a cameo for the game that, at the time, looked like an early April Fool’s joke: Gears of War‘s Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago.

Now pics from Famitsu reveal a Monster Hunter from that popular franchise and zombie killing photojournalist Frank West from Capcom’s Dead Rising. While Marcus and Dom are 360 exclusive characters, the Monster Hunter will only appear on PlayStation 3.