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"Please give it a chance": After 3,200 mixed Steam reviews for his new MMO, RuneScape creator explains the soft-reset class design confusing some players
news Brighter Shores plays very differently from RuneScape, even if it can look similar
Sony boss admits forcing PC gamers into PlayStation accounts can "invite pushback," but insists they have to keep games safe – which doesn't really track in single-player
news Horizon Zero Dawn remastered is the latest PC game to require a PSN account
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero "saw outstanding sales," and Bandai Namco says roughly 90% of that was from European and North American fans
news Dragon Ball, in general, is orders of magnitude bigger outside Japan
Genshin Impact community rallies to pummel one player "shamelessly admitting that I want friends" with so many friend requests that they can barely respond to everyone
news "I managed to play on co-op with one person last night briefly, and they were really kind"
Now that's a nasty MMO bug: Old School RuneScape players watched in confusion as thousands of bolts and arrows vanished in a black hole strapped to their shoulder
news Dizana's Quiver in OSRS was bugged and eating ranged ammo
Monster Hunter Wilds players use the Palico character creator to remember lost pets: "I have shed tears multiple times but I also feel happy that I can still fight monsters with my buddy"
news "They can accompany us into a whole new world," said one player
Days after Wii U gem Xenoblade Chronicles X was finally announced for Switch, Nintendo says the JRPG series has seen roughly 500% growth on Switch vs 3DS and Wii U
news Xenoblade has sold over 7 million copies on Switch
The best Persona games, ranked
Features With Persona 3 Reload and Persona 5 Royal released, we rank the 12 best Persona games to see how the classics stack up
Artist reimagines Elden Ring as a Baldur's Gate-style top-down RPG "despite my love-hate relationship with the game," is surprised to see it's absolutely stunning
news Elden Gate has a nice *ring* to it
After 800 hours of practice finally paid off, hitless runner explains why a no-hit run of Borderlands 2 was way harder than games like Dark Souls or Skyrim
news A hitless Borderlands 2 clear didn't even seem possible for a long time
Capcom wants to know what Monster Hunter Wilds players thought of the beta – Here are 11 things I want fixed before launch
Features The Monster Hunter Wilds beta was on its way to greatness, but not quite there
"Games have bugs and GTA is no exception": Former Rockstar tech lead shouts out modder behind hundreds of fixes for the original GTA trilogy on PC
news The modder recently acknowledged a one-pixel mistake in one weapon icon
Assassin's Creed Shadows lead shuts down "attacks driven by intolerance" over the game's Black samurai and woman warrior, condemns "personal attacks" against devs
news "Yasuke's presence in Japanese history is fact"
As Monster Hunter Wilds PC players fight horrible polygons and struggle to hit 60 FPS, Capcom says the game is "already in a more improved state compared to the beta"
news The Monster Hunter Wilds PC beta test can give even moderately old PCs some trouble
Monster Hunter Wilds players use the beta character creator to recreate their hunters from Monster Hunter World, aged for good measure, and also their real cats
news Monster Hunter Wilds joins the list of powerful character creators
After 500 hours in Monster Hunter World, the Monster Hunter Wilds beta feels like a new pair of shoes: fresh and stylish, but a little uncomfortable
Features Opinion | Sadly Monster Hunter Wilds may have killed one of my favorite play styles
After a nerf in his home turf, the Elden Ring DLC's notorious final boss has seemingly invaded Yu-Gi-Oh, but I have bad news for him: he kind of sucks
news Denial Deity Dotan reminds me of someone, I just can't put my finger on it
Ubisoft wants to restore the "creativity and innovation" that built its success in "2010 - 2020," and it's cut over 2,000 employees in 2 years to help do it
news Ubisoft has slimmed down to a mere 18,666 employees
Monster Hunter was a "big inspiration for both co-op combat and weapon design" on Dead Cells dev's new roguelike: "The depth of each weapon means there's always more to learn"
news Windblown launched just before the Monster Hunter Wilds beta test
As fans brace for Monster Hunter Wilds, Capcom reveals it's lured around 3 million players to this action RPG series in the last 6 months alone
news Monster Hunter has dominated Capcom sales for the last six months
Manga fans around the world saved an underrated series at risk of cancellation: "I never would’ve imagined that so many people would be willing to go all in"
News Love Bullet is getting a reprint, which is a good sign for a new manga
Borderlands fan will get to see Borderlands 4 early after Gearbox agrees to fly him to the studio following cancer diagnosis: "I never expected anything like this"
news "It was awesome to see the CEO of Gearbox emailing me and telling me that he would do whatever he could to help me out"
Monster Hunter Wilds casually mentions 100-player lobbies ahead of its first beta, but this is no MMO: 16 players show up at once just like Monster Hunter World
news Monster Hunter Wilds invites a lot of players to pile in at once
