Monster Hunter Wilds News

I'd be a nervous wreck, but Monster Hunter Wilds' producer is 'very confident' following up Capcom's bestselling game ever

year ago, longtime Monster Hunter producer Ryozo Tsujimoto celebrated some major series milestones, including one very big number: 23 million. That's how many copies of Monster Hunter: World Capcom had sold by early 2024 (including copies bundling in the game's expansion, Iceborne). If you take a look on Capcom's website, where it maintains a leaderboard of its bestselling games, World's tacked on another 5 million sales since then. 28 million copies! That's Capcom's most successful game ever, across its 42-year history...
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I played the final preview build of Monster Hunter Wilds, and the 2 beasts I hunted were the best kind of absolute freaks

Monster Hunter contains multitudes. Not just multitudes of monsters, but multitudes of moods. What other game series would open with a child's village being destroyed by a raging mythological beast, then an hour later devote five minutes to a cutscene of a roided-out chicken chasing a bunch of cats carrying a giant steak over their heads?..
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Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 4 Feb — 11 February 2025

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PSN crapping out means we all get an extra day of the Monster Hunter Wilds beta, even us on PC

This past weekend saw a bizarre, still largely unexplained outage of Sony's PlayStation Network service, effectively rendering a bunch of folk unable to access digital games and online servers. As someone who moonlights as a console sicko, I'll admit it was a real spanner in my weekend plans...
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The Monster Hunter Wilds beta on PC has officially been extended by Capcom

Capcom confirms that PC players will get extra time with the Monster Hunter Wilds beta, after a PlayStation Network outage stopped PS5 owners from playing the game over the weekend. Even though everyone on Steam was unaffected by the console downtime, the final stint of the beta ahead of launch has been extended across all platforms for 24 hours, meaning you get even more time to try Wilds out before launch.

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