Monster Hunter Wilds (PS5) News Articles
Friday4th Apr 2025
News Monster Hunter Wilds Connection Errors are Everywhere as Fans Flood Back for Title Update 1
It's a whopper
You know an update's popular when the game's online functionality is brought to its knees. Title Update 1 is now live for Monster Hunter Wilds, having dropped in the early hours of the morning. However, as the day's gone on and more of the western world has woken up, the RPG's servers have started to buckle. At the time of writing,...
News Monster Hunter Wilds' Massive Update Out Now, Here Are All the Patch Notes
Back into the Wilds
Capcom has dropped the patch notes for Title Update 1, the first major patch coming to Monster Hunter Wilds. The update itself will be available to download on the 4th April (tomorrow at the time of writing), breathing a lot of new life into the action RPG roughly one month after its initial release on PS5. If you've been...
Monday31st Mar 2025
News Monster Hunter Wilds Confirms Improvements Coming to Performance, QoL, and Weapon Balance
Layered Weapons also incoming
Just days ahead of Monster Hunter Wilds' huge Title Update 1, Capcom has confirmed its intent to improve pretty much everything about the action RPG going forward. In a surprisingly open letter from director Yuya Tokuda, we get some insight into the development team's current line of thinking — and although many of...
News Monster Hunter Wilds Smashes Capcom Record with 10 Million Units Sold
Wildly successful
Monster Hunter Wilds has tagged on another two million units in the weeks since its release, as the fictional animal slaughtering sim has now sold over 10 million units. If you recall, the release topped eight million units just three days after its arrival. Capcom says this is a “first month sales record” for the company, and...
Wednesday26th Mar 2025
News Monster Hunter Wilds Teases Fan-Favourite Sea Dragon's Return
A leviathan undertaking
Well, this is what happens when you don't pay close attention to the end of trailers! Admittedly, we missed this rather unsubtle tease, dropped into the latest Monster Hunter Wilds showcase. But as fans have been extremely quick to point out, it looks like a fan-favourite creature will finally return to the series this...
Tuesday25th Mar 2025
News Monster Hunter Wilds' Huge Title Update 1 Detailed, Here's Everything You Need to Know
Mizutsune! Arch-tempered! New gear!
Capcom has given us a deep dive into Title Update 1 for Monster Hunter Wilds. The game's first major update launches next week, on Friday the 4th April, and it's absolutely packed with new stuff. If you've fallen off Wilds since its launch last month, then these additions should pull you back in. There's a new...
Saturday22nd Mar 2025
News Monster Hunter Wilds' Campaign Has an Impressive 73% Completion Rate on PS5
High Rank awaits
Around three quarters of Monster Hunter Wilds players have pushed through the game's main story campaign on PS5. That's according to Trophy data, which has the silver 'Bringer of Harmony' trinket marked as "common" at 73.1%. Wilds has been out for just under a month, which makes this a fairly impressive completion rate when...
Friday14th Mar 2025
News Monster Hunter Wilds Player Shows Off Extent of Its Massive Open World
One loading screen in nine long minutes
Monster Hunter Wilds is a big game, packed to the brim with all sorts of nightmares of evolution to hunt down and slay to harvest their valuable hides and innards. One player has documented an impressive nine-minute-long jaunt across its vast, connected zones from the back of a Seikret. BrotherPig posted...
Monday10th Mar 2025
News Latest Monster Hunter Wilds PS5 Update Makes Dozens of Fixes, Here Are the Patch Notes
A beastly patch
Capcom has released a new patch for its big new action RPG, Monster Hunter Wilds. Available to download and install now on PS5, the update focuses on fixing numerous issues, including those that were preventing progress through the game. Here's the list of issues addressed in this update, per Capcom's support site: The “Grill a...
Friday7th Mar 2025
Random Monster Hunter Wilds Fans Impressed by Capcom's Collection of Blades
You call that a knife?
Monster Hunter Wilds features a wide assortment of majestic creatures to ruthlessly hunt down for their resources, and not a few nightmarish abominations that simply cannot be suffered to live. Of course, you'll need your trusty carving knife to reap the rewards, and fans have been impressed to find the wide range of blades on...
Wednesday5th Mar 2025
News Monster Hunter Wilds Will Cycle Weekly Event Quests with In-Game Rewards on PS5
The hunt never ends
Monster Hunter Wilds launched at the tail end of last week, and it's been a monumental success already, having sold 8 million copies in just three days. While there's plenty of content in the game for players to chew on, Capcom has now kickstarted a weekly schedule of Event Quests, introducing fresh missions to complete that'll...
Random There's a Run on Cheese Naan in Japan, and Monster Hunter Wilds Is to Blame
We'll take two
Mmmm, cheese naan. It’s comforting, filling, and outrageously delicious. It’s also selling out at Japanese restaurants right now, and Monster Hunter Wilds is to blame. Automaton reports that fans of the hit PS5 game have been storming Nepalese restaurants right around the country after seeing a cutscene in the game which depicts...
Random Capcom Survey Site Crushed by Monster Hunter Wilds' Massive Audience
Trampled underfoot
After hunting down a stunning eight million players in just three days, it seems Capcom's newfound mega-popularity isn't all upside: a survey the company is asking players to fill out with feedback has been hit with so many respondents that the site crashed due to "heavy traffic".
Tuesday4th Mar 2025
News Monster Hunter Wilds Patch 1.000.004 Out Now, Fixes Game-Breaking Bug, Crashes
The hunt continues
An update for Monster Hunter Wilds will be deployed on the 4th March, but it won't be the performance-enhancing patch that many players are waiting for. Over the weekend following Wilds' release, there were numerous reports of a game-breaking bug that occurs during Chapter 5 of the main story. Basically, there's a quest where...
News Monster Hunter Wilds Sells 8 Million Units in Three Days, Capcom's Fastest Selling Game Ever
Sales monster
Monster Hunter Wilds’ unstoppable success has earned it over eight million sales in just three days, making it the fastest-selling game in publisher Capcom’s history. The publisher failed to provide any additional information about the game’s performance in its press release, so we’ll need to await further announcements to...
News Monster Hunter Series Producer Just Got a Big Promotion at Capcom
Ryozo Tsujimoto moving up in the world
Ryozo Tsujimoto, a key producer at Capcom responsible for the Monster Hunter series, has received a big promotion after the company announced a personnel reshuffling. From 1st April, Tsujimoto, who currently serves as "deputy in charge of development divisions", will assume the Chief Product Officer position in...
Monday3rd Mar 2025
News Monster Hunter Wilds a Best-Seller in the UK as Series Continues Upwards Trajectory
Now an established seller in the West
Monster Hunter Wilds was the best-selling physical title in the UK last week, as its PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC launch saw the franchise begin to replicate the success Capcom experienced with Monster Hunter World. The franchise's first proper breakout hit in the West, it seems Wilds is already on course to...
Friday28th Feb 2025
Cashcom
Capcom makes damn good video games, but for years now, the publisher's peddled dodgy microtransactions — often to the detriment of the titles that they're attached to. And the newly-released Monster Hunter Wilds is no different. Just like in 2018's Monster Hunter World, players need to pay up with real money if they want to make cosmetic...
News Monster Hunter Wilds Eclipses All Expectations on Launch Day
Truly wild
Monster Hunter Wilds looks like it’s going to have a crack at being the biggest game of the year. Within hours of releasing, the latest in Capcom’s uber-popular property attracted almost one million concurrent players on Steam. That’s the eighth highest concurrent count in the PC storefront’s history, with the title guaranteed to...
News Palworld Maker Shuts Up Shop So Staff Can Enjoy Monster Hunter Wilds in Peace
That's one way to do it
Palworld developer Pocketpair has closed its office today, allowing staff to enjoy Monster Hunter Wilds in peace. The studio’s official X (or Twitter) account shared a memo which was sent to employees ahead of 28th February, joking that a number of staff already planned to take a sick day. “Regarding 28th February, we...
Thursday27th Feb 2025
News Monster Hunter Wilds' Big April Update Adds Harder Enemies as Difficulty Discourse Continues
Temper yourself
Capcom has detailed the first big 'Title Update' for Monster Hunter Wilds, which will drop at some point in April. The idea is that by this time, most players who snagged the game at launch will have played through the main campaign — as well as the High Rank stuff — and will be looking to sink their teeth into something new...
News Cheap PS5 Rental Service Rolls Out in Japan, Just in Time for Monster Hunter Wilds
Playtime
One of Japan's most popular retailers is rolling out a new rental service for the PS5 console itself — and it's actually quite cheap at just 980 yen (around $7 or £5) for a full week. The PS5 has sold fairly well in Japan up until this point, but there's no question that the region's home console market has shrunk significantly over the...
News Capcom Reveals Monster Hunter Wilds Global Release Times
The anticipation of the hunt
Monster Hunter Wilds is almost upon us. It will be released on PS5 tomorrow, February 28th. Series fanatics will likely want to start playing the second servers go live. Capcom understands this all too well and has confirmed the precise global release times so that prospective hunters can immediately get to hunting...
Tuesday25th Feb 2025
News PS5 Pro Is By Far the Best Way to Play Monster Hunter Wilds on Console
But...
When it comes to playing the imminent Monster Hunter Wilds on a console, your best bet — by some distance — is the PS5 Pro. This is what Digital Foundry's latest analysis boils down to, with the team having now examined the action RPG across all available hardware. We did our own performance analysis of Wilds earlier this we
News Some Monster Hunter Wilds Fans Are Losing Their Minds Over the Game Being 'Too Easy'
Easy does it
Monster Hunter Wilds is just days away from release at the time of writing this article, but early press and content creator reviews have managed to whip up a storm within the community. Currently, potential players are embroiled in a debate surrounding the game's difficulty. You see, several reviewers have pointed out that Wilds is...
Thursday13th Feb 2025
News Monster Hunter Wilds Isn't Out on PS5 Yet, But Capcom's Already Revealed Its First Free Updates
Lots to look forward to
Monster Hunter Wilds is going to be monstrous on PS5 this month, but even once you’ve worked through the presumably massive amounts of day one content, there’s more to look forward to. As part of yesterday’s State of Play, publisher Capcom confirmed the game’s first free post-release updates. “In the week after...
Wednesday12th Feb 2025
News The Hype for Monster Hunter Wilds Is Real as World Sales Erupt Seven Years After Release
World's world
Monster Hunter World has become a seemingly eternal money-spinner for Capcom, as the action RPG continues to post impressive sales numbers seven whole years after its release. The impending launch of Monster Hunter Wilds has no doubt sparked this latest sales bump, with IGN Japan reporting that World somehow managed to shift 1 million...
Monday10th Feb 2025
News Here's When Monster Hunter Wilds' Extended PS5 Beta Will End
More details to follow
One of the biggest downsides to this weekend’s PSN outage was that the much-anticipated Monster Hunter Wilds beta had been scheduled to take place. Obviously, it’s up and running now, but fans lost a full day of play, which isn’t ideal. Capcom, eager to make good on the situation, has promised that it’ll offer a...
Thursday6th Feb 2025
News Monster Hunter Wilds Lowers PC Requirements, Probably a Good Thing for PS5 Performance
Capcom makes optimisations
Capcom has revealed updated PC requirements for Monster Hunter Wilds, ahead of its release later in the month — and they may just point towards good news for PS5 players. Basically, the developer's managed to make some pretty significant optimisations to the imminent action RPG, reducing the technical heft that's needed...
Wednesday5th Feb 2025
News Creepy Beasties Abound in Monster Hunter Wilds' Iceshard Cliffs Trailer
Nope, no, absolutely not
Monster Hunter Wilds is preparing for the hunt, which begins 28th February on PS5. In a new trailer that activated our unfortunately ironic (for an Australian) arachnophobia, we glimpse the kinds of scuttling, chitinous abominations that are generally contained within our nightmares. Thankfully, we get to see more...
