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Capcom wanted to do more with Monster Hunter: World and "didn't give up" on those ideas – now "Monster Hunter Wilds made it possible" to try again
Feature Interview | How Capcom used Monster Hunter Wilds to step up its tech
The best Uncharted games, ranked worst to best
Best List We rank the best Uncharted games, from the core four to a Nate-less spin-off
Monster Hunter Wilds ran great on PS5 at Capcom's Japan headquarters, and its director says "the same level of frame rate improvement will also be implemented on PC"
News Yuya Tokuda admits "there were obviously some issues" with monster hair and fur in the beta, too
Monster Hunter Wilds director says 4 weapons will get "big improvements or changes" after beta feedback: lance, switch axe, insect glaive, and sword and shield
News Some things, like difficulties with the controls for the lance, "really became evident" thanks to the beta
The best stealth games you can sneak through right now
Best List Move like a shadow and strike down your foes in the best stealth games, from Hitman to Assassin's Creed
Monster Hunter Wilds director confirms my suspicions: a bug made monsters run away too frequently in the beta and the full game doesn't have this problem
News It's not just you, monsters really were running away too frequently
Big Preview: Monster Hunter Wilds – Exclusive access and hands-on impressions of Capcom's most ambitious entry yet
Big Preview We flew to Osaka, Japan to visit Capcom and spend hours with a new build of Monster Hunter Wilds, and to meet the devs pushing the series' boundaries once again
Monster Hunter Wilds hitstop feels way better in the non-beta build, and the game's director was happy to juice it back up after overseas players apparently hated it in World
Monster Hunter Wilds weapons will land with more oomph in the full game
I spent 5 hours with a new build of Monster Hunter Wilds and it solved basically every problem I had after playing the beta – now this really feels like Monster Hunter World 2
Hands-on Big Preview | Monster Hunter Wilds feels like the World follow-up I always wanted
Metaphor: ReFantazio is the most fun I had with a JRPG this year and its Cyber Monday price is a new record low
Cyber Monday The JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio is available at a record-low price with this Cyber Monday deal.
All Genshin Impact Dendroculus locations
Guide Where to find all 271 Dendroculus in Genshin Impact
"It makes me sick": Skyrim modder with 475,000 downloads, fed up with "daily harassment," abandons modding after "thousands of hours" of work on what she calls "the most advanced follower to ever exist"
News Their departure has sparked another conversation about how the modding scene looks after its own
In an expansion-heavy time for Xbox, Phil Spencer says he doesn't like "expansions that are manipulative" – "I don't want it to be, like, the third level that you cut"
news "Not every game will do expansions"
A Deep Rock Galactic player became a real-life explosives miner as "a direct result" of the "silly little dwarf game," and couldn't be happier with her career
Interview Interview | "I'm going to be hopefully moving in on a driller position soon"
Ubisoft kills "inaccurate rumors" around Assassin's Creed Animus Hub: rewards are "entirely free," no paid sub or battle pass, and "no extra cost" to missions
News Update: Ubisoft steps in to set the record straight
Meet Elden Ring's newest hero: the Lore Accurate Knight, a sword-and-board legend crushing bosses with a simple Dark Souls-inspired loadout
news "Imagine how they must feel losing to a common knight"
Helldivers 2's new Democracy Space Station is killing so many Helldivers that the devs are giving out free shields and extra lives in a "temporary" emergency fix
News Update: Arrowhead agrees the DSS is a team-killing nightmare
That slick Prince of Persia action roguelike from the Dead Cells co-dev is getting a huge update that throws out the old art style and doubles the content
news The Prince of Purple is gone, but may return in a skin
Avowed is selling 5 days of early access, and in a surprise twist fueled by Xbox buying everyone, Obsidian's RPG is coming to Activision Blizzard's Battle.net
news Fork over $90 and you can play Avowed five days early
Under PS5 dominance, Microsoft says you don't need a console at all, actually everything is an Xbox, and "you're probably reading this right now from an Xbox"
news What isn't an Xbox, really?
No Man's Sky dev shares another reminder of how hard game dev is: 20 different formats to balance, with "around 140 combinations of graphics options" on PC
news "Which I hope conveys the complexity involved in releasing a large cross platform game like ours"
The First Descendant devs have "important news" for fans of the RPG shooter: "A decision has been made to add the much-requested 'Jiggle Physics'"
news You asked for it
Xbox faces hundreds of striking employees as union at Bethesda parent ZeniMax stages a walkout to "tell Microsoft to stop dragging their feet"
news ZeniMax Workers United reckons "Microsoft runs on outsourcing"
