Increasingly more and more third-party developers are moving towards a multi-platform strategy as the costs of game development continue to rise and remaining exclusive to one platform may not yield the dividends necessary to recoup the investment. Thus we’ve seen ports of older games whether individually or as part of a collection come to new platforms. One such case is with Xbox, as they announced today during the Xbox Tokyo Game Show 2025 stream that the complete Monster Hunter Stories series would be making its way to the console.
The Monster Hunter Stories series sees players take on the role of a Rider instead of the typical Hunter that stars in other games in the larger Monster Hunter franchise. The major twist is that the Stories games feature turn-based combat and befriending monsters, instead of the action combat against big monsters of the mainline titles.
The newest game in the series, Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection was announced at a late July Nintendo Partner Showcase with the surprise that it was not a Nintendo console exclusive as the other two games had been in the past. Later on that day, it was revealed that indeed the...
