Kushala Daora dragon in Monster Hunter Now.
Kushala Daora is a dragon in Monster Hunter Now.
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Monster Hunter Now introduces Elder Dragons for Season 2

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Niantic and Capcom announced that the popular Elder Dragons from the Monster Hunter series are coming to the location-based mobile game Monster Hunter Now for Season 2.

Monster Hunter Now debuted in September 2023 and it has been downloaded 15 million times as of April, giving Niantic its biggest hit since Pokemon Go debuted in 2016. Niantic’s infrastructure for the location-based game has held up well with the new game.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.