At long last, the highly anticipated Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for the Nintendo 3DS is now available nationwide in North America.

To celebrate the release of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate in North America, Capcom has released an update via the Nintendo eShop where gamers can download the “Starter Pack” item that contains bunch of items. The pack has the following items that gamers can use:

Mega Potion x50
Honey x30
Mega Dash Juice x15
Well-done Steak x30
Max Potion x10
Lifepowder x20
Ancient Potion x5
Flash Bomb x30
Sonic Bomb x30
Pitfall Trap x15
Shock Trap x15
Super Mushroom x6

Need help on how to download the Starter Pack? Here’s how!

HOW TO GET YOUR FREE STARTER PACK

So if you’re reading this because you just got your copy of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate and are ready to claim your free Starter Pack, including the Super Mario Bros. collaboration items, here’s a little guide on how to get make sure you get everything:

REQUIREMENTS:

– Internet connection

– A copy of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

– A save file with at least one hunter created

STEPS:

1) Go to the Nintendo eShop

2) Download and install Patch 1.1

3) Load Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

4) Go to “Your House”

5) Talk to the “Housekeeper”

6) Select “Downloadable Content”

7) Go to the “Gift Area” option

8) Download the Starter Pack

9) Exit the Download Menu

10) Check your Item Box

Check back with us early next week for our review and bunch of guides we’ll have for the game.

As mentioned in another article on the site, it was announced today that the upcoming Nintendo release Pokemon X and Pokemon Y games will be available with a download code card that will be sold in stores in Japan, in addition to its cartridge and eShop release. This is not a huge surprise, as it has been done with many other Nintendo releases for both Wii U and the 3DS. However, the big news from this is that the download cards have unveiled how big these games will be. Both Pokemon X and Y will be 1.7 GB each, or about 14,000 blocks, a large increase from any previous games in the series.

According to a post on the gaming messageboard NeoGAF, the previous largest cartridge size for a Pokemon game was the 512 MB Pokemon Black and White 2. The game itself was likely even smaller than that, with that just being the basic cartridge size used for the game. Prior to that, Black and White were 256 MB, Platinum, Heart Gold, and Soul Silver were 128 MB, and Diamond and Pearl were 64 MB.

With the Pokemon series making the jump to 3D models and locations, there was an expected jump in size, but this was larger than I personally expected. We won’t know if it’s just the 3D models that have increased the size, or if there is more content than past Pokemon games. This will be answered when Pokemon X and Y are released worldwide, for the first time in the series history, on October 12 for the Nintendo 3DS.

This post is a little bit different from our usual news postings as it isn’t exactly a breaking news story, but rather exposure for a localization campaign for a game. Digimon World Re:Digitize released in 2012 for the PlayStation Portable, with a re-release under the title Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode for the Nintendo 3DS. Sadly, the title was never released outside of Japan, and many are hoping to change that.

Operation Decode, an online localization campaign, has been working for months to catch the eye of Namco Bandai to show how much support there is for a US release of this Digimon title. When the campaign started, the goal was 10,000 signatures, which has been far surpassed with a total of 18,340 at the time of this posting. While you may just think that petitions are useless, that is not quite the case as they have worked in the past, including Project X Zone, also from Namco Bandai.

The campaign has also caught the eye of Namco Bandai along the way when Joseph Walsh, a Namco Bandai PR Executive, tweeted in response to the Operation Decode Twitter account with “A LOT of love for Digimon. Interesting stuff.” This obviously doesn’t indicate anything, but it certainly doesn’t hurt. If you are interested in seeing Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode in the US, make sure to sign the petition that can be found right here. Hopefully we may also see a re-release and localization of the PSP title Digimon Adventure, an RPG retelling of the entire first season of Digimon.