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Best Monster Hunter Wilds weapons and full tier list
Guide Our weapon tier list for MH Wilds lays out all the most powerful choices and what's best
Monster Hunter Wilds' story is as divisive as expected: some players hate the "relentless on rails handholding," others love the build-up to "the best scene in Monster Hunter history"
News Love it or hate it, at least the finale is an all-timer
Monster Hunter Wilds takes an infamously rare and annoying material from the old games and absolutely buries you in it – and also buries you in tiny spiders
News We can thank the Nerscylla family for fixing the economy
After 7 years, one of my favorite manga is suddenly ending and I don't know how to feel: My Dress-Up Darling finishes this month before the anime even gets season 2
News Shinichi Fukuda's hit romantic comedy cosplay series comes to an abrupt end
Playing Monster Hunter Wilds in multiplayer is a confusing mess, but in defiance of Capcom I've jury-rigged a co-op campaign that actually works
Features There's no way to make playing with friends simple, but you can make it less painful
Capcom asks Monster Hunter Wilds players how they feel about the game in a survey longer than most hunts, and I guess y'all had feedback because it crashed due to "heavy traffic"
News Hello, have you played Elden Ring, do you watch YouTube, and would you buy DLC?
A Monster Hunter Wilds bug doomed one player to fight the 5-minute punching bag tutorial boss for a freakin' hour: "I’ve had to sharpen my weapon at least 15 times now"
News "Hmmm this is taking a while for early game"
"Thank you, Monster Hunter": Japanese restaurant's sales jump after Monster Hunter Wilds gives millions of players a hankering for stretchy cheese
News A Nepalese restaurant in Japan has seen a curious spike in cheese demand
I've played Monster Hunter Wilds for almost 60 hours and somehow missed this game-changing gathering tip
News Gathering a bunch of stuff at once is much easier like this
And you thought Hollow Knight: Silksong is late – 37 years in the making, this retro Metroidvania has a whip-smart Steam Next Fest demo that's as Castlevania as it gets
News Beyond the Ice Palace 2 brings a Commodore 64 game up to snuff
Monster Hunter Wilds revived a play style I fell in love with almost 10 years ago, and now it's one of my favorite ways to play all over again
Features The old-school great sword is so back in Monster Hunter Wilds
As players worry Monster Hunter Wilds is too easy, Capcom is already gassing up "a new level of challenge" coming in the first free update
news Monster Hunter Wilds Title Update 1 seems to have a few monsters in the works
The hottest city builder in Steam Next Fest is actually a roguelike deck builder in disguise: "Break the game with thousands of insane builds"
News 9 Kings is my kind of genre soup, and people really like it so far
The most popular open-world survival game in Steam Next Fest is coming straight for my JRPG-born obsession with floating islands
News Solarpunk smashed its Kickstarter goal, and it's getting a lot of play on Steam
Someone combined Diablo and League of Legends for a roguelike co-op MOBA with Risk of Rain energy, and it deserves the hype it's getting in Steam Next Fest
News Shape of Dreams looks like something very special
The most popular Metroidvania in Steam Next Fest is just what I'd expect from one of the best names in anime games, and it's also coming to consoles
News Inti Creates' Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark feels like another round of classic search-action fun
This open-world game imagines a cartoony Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom where the Master Sword is the Master Shield – it's coming to all platforms and I dig its Steam Next Fest demo
News The Knightling feels more like a platformer with some cool open-world ideas
The Witcher 4 devs hint at Ciri's morality and those delicious RPG story branches: "The situation that may happen after the trailer is over is such a tough choice"
News CDPR says "we expect you to consider some situations, make some tough choices"
This 93% positive Steam Next Fest survival game demo wants to combine Minecraft and No Man's Sky with "RPG-style depth," and so far it's actually pulling it off
News Cubic Odyssey almost feels like a Minecraft mega-mod, but it's a whole open-world game
Monster Hunter fans are in pieces over reviews saying Monster Hunter Wilds is too easy, but after playing almost 50 hours myself I don't think it's that serious
Features Monster Hunter Wilds is definitely easier than we're used to, but it never bothered me
An apparent ex-FromSoftware dev has a janky action RPG in Steam Next Fest, so obviously I had to play it – and yep, the opening shot is straight out of Dark Souls
News Rise of Rebellion is a curious hybrid of Soulslike ideas
The Game of Thrones action RPG giving George R.R. Martin a run for his money on late releases is playable in Steam Next Fest, and I'm afraid it's not very good
News Game of Thrones: Kingsroad presents itself pretty well, but plays fairly poorly
Dauntless is dead: After a blockchain company buyout, a disastrous update, and brutal layoffs, the Monster Hunter-like action RPG is shutting down this May
News Dauntless "will no longer be available to play" after May
