Tag: Monster Hunter
"We'll continue to do our best"
Monster Hunter Wilds has had numerous ups and downs since it launched earlier in the year, to the point where it has, arguably, become one of 2025's most divisive games. On release, the action RPG was met with super strong review scores and positive player feedback; the finished product sported dramatic improvements...
Gogmazios, weapon buffs, and more
The next major update for Monster Hunter Wilds now has a confirmed date: the 16th December. Title Update 4 sees the return of series favourite creature Gogmazios, a colossal dragon capable of immense destruction. Capcom's already suggested that this'll be an especially difficult fight, even for veteran players...
News Monster Hunter Wilds Doing So Badly That's It's Been Outsold by MH Rise, Devil May Cry 5
Q2 sales results have MH Wilds at rock bottom
Capcom has today published its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2025, and they make for alarming reading for the publisher's biggest release of the year, Monster Hunter Wilds. While it had an excellent launch, selling more than 10 million units and setting new records for Capcom,...
News Monster Hunter Wilds Is Going All-In for Halloween with Costumes, Quests, and More
Dreamspell begins
Honestly, Capcom's put more effort into Monster Hunter Wilds' imminent Festival of Accord than we thought it would. The latest seasonal event kicks off tomorrow at the time of writing, on the 22nd October. Subtitled Dreamspell, the spooky occasion will see the Grand Hub undergo another redecoration, and new event quests will be...
News Monster Hunter Wilds Title Update 3 Out Next Week, Title Update 4 Teases an Elder Dragon
Omega and Omega
The next big update for Monster Hunter Wilds, Title Update 3, will launch next week, on the 29th September. We've known about the contents of this patch for a while now, but Capcom provided a more in-depth look during its latest online program. The headline act is undoubtedly the addition of Omega Planetes, a new monster taken...
News PS5's High Price Becoming a Serious Headache for Publishers
Plus the cost of PS Plus
Over the course of this console generation, much has been said about the PS5's steep price point — and now, even the big publishers are pointing fingers. More specifically, Capcom president Haruhiro Tsujimoto believes that the cost of Sony's current-gen system has been a key factor in limiting software sales. Tsujimoto's...
News Monster Hunter Wilds Crossover with Final Fantasy 14 Confirmed for September
The Omega is coming
We already knew that Monster Hunter Wilds is getting a major patch in the form of Title Update 3 this September, but now it's been confirmed that it'll feature crossover content from Final Fantasy 14 (the Monster Hunter World deja vu is real). You'll be able to ride chocobos, naturally, and hunt a form of Omega — one of the...
News Monster Hunter Wilds Patch 1.021 Out Now, Adds New Endgame Grind, Weapon Buffs, More
Back to the grind
Monster Hunter Wilds is getting a big update this week, with some of the endgame improvements originally planned for Title Update 3 being pushed out much earlier as part of this new patch. However, there's no doubt that for some players, the freshly released patch notes will leave much to be desired. And before you start...
News Turn-Based RPG Monster Hunter Stories 3 Announced for PS5, Hatches in 2026
A new story to tell
Capcom has announced the third game in its Monster Hunter Stories series. Fully titled Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection, it's coming to PS5 at some point next year. We've only got a brief reveal trailer to go on, but the official description clarifies a couple of key things. Firstly, this is another story-driven RPG...
News Monster Hunter Wilds' Struggling Sales Drag Capcom Stock Price Through the Mud
Wild
Capcom's been on a seemingly unstoppable winning streak for years now, but the company really seems to have hit a snag with Monster Hunter Wilds. Despite racking up record sales on release back in February, the action RPG has seriously struggled to maintain commercial momentum. Capcom's most recent financial report tags Wilds at just 477,000...
News Monster Hunter Wilds Endgame Expansion and Weapon Balance Update Pushed Forward
Taken from Title Update 3
Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Wilds' next big update will arrive in just a couple of weeks, and that it'll include some major adjustments that were originally going to be part of Title Update 3. Just to recap, Title Update 3 is still set for late September — promising a new monster and "various improvements"...
News Monster Hunter Wilds' Big Summer Festival Shows Off New Outfits, Events, and More
Begins this week
Capcom's given us a proper look at what's coming to Monster Hunter Wilds via the new Flamefete event — and there seems to be a decent amount of stuff to dig into. This summer festival kicks off on the 23rd July, and lasts until the 6th August. Hunters can look forward to the Grand Hub getting a makeover, and the addition of...
News Capcom Nixes Tone Deaf Conference on Monster Hunter Wilds Optimisation
But fan harassment crossed a line
Monster Hunter Wilds is not what we’d describe as the smoothest PS5 game, so Capcom’s decision to hold a seminar on video game optimisation doesn’t strike us as the best idea. To be clear, the Japanese publisher has made some outstandingly slick software over the years, so we’re sure it has valuable...
News Monster Hunter Wilds 1.020 Out Now on PS5, Full Title Update 2 Patch Notes Revealed
Not one, but two new monsters
Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Wilds' next big patch, Title Update 2, will launch on the 30th June — and it'll feature not one, but two returning monsters. As was previously teased, the giant water-dwelling dragon that is Lagiacrus is being added, and you even get to fight it underwater — albeit briefly...
News Monster Hunter Wilds' Huge Title Update 2 Confirmed for End of June
Lagiacrus! Layered weapons!
Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Wilds' all-important Title Update 2 will drop within the next few weeks. Players have been waiting on this one for a while. Although the Akuma-infused patch did spice Wilds up for a few days when it arrived in May, the so-called Title Updates have always been the lifeblood of the...
News Monster Hunter Wilds Wants You to Design a Weapon That'll Be Added to the Game
Competition now open
Artistic types take note: Capcom wants people to design their own weapon, and / or pendant for Monster Hunter Wilds, as part of a newly announced community competition. The best designs will be added to the game in a future update — currently set for 2026 — so all players can take them for a spin. Entries can be submitted...
News Monster Hunter Wilds Details Massive List of Improvements Over Next Two Updates
Update 1.011 patch notes are here
With Monster Hunter Wilds' next update locked and loaded for the 28th May (that's tomorrow at the time of writing), Capcom has published a detailed message from director Yuya Tokuda, which actually gives players a rundown on what the game's future holds. The incoming patch actually sounds a lot more in-depth than...
News Monster Hunter Wilds Reveals Free Akuma Armour and More in Street Fighter 6 Crossover
Chun Li and Cammy are DLC, though
Monster Hunter Wilds has unveiled its upcoming collaboration with Street Fighter 6, and it's actually all about Akuma. The demonic fighter is making his presence felt through a free armour set, which can be unlocked through a new quest, suitably titled Ultimate Strength. Additional arena quests, named Demonic...
News Monster Hunter's Coolest Cosmetic Is Back for a Limited Time in Wilds
Go with the flow
A fan favourite Monster Hunter armour piece has returned in Monster Hunter Wilds, and you can grab it right now through a limited time event quest. The glorious Sealed Dragon Cloth is basically a big old scarf that flows in the breeze as you battle beasties. Similar items have been made available in previous games, but we're...
News Monster Hunter Wilds Update Teases Some Kind of Street Fighter 6 Crossover
Hit the streets
It looks like Street Fighter 6 is coming to Monster Hunter Wilds in the near future. Based on a teasing social media post, which shows a palico's paw icon in Street Fighter 6's spraypainted style, some kind of collaboration is in the works. Obviously, both games are from Capcom, and the company has always liked to cross its...
News Monster Hunter Wilds' Deadly Rey Dau Event Quest Is Live, New Armour Set Included
Rey to go
Following on from the introduction of Monster Hunter Wilds' first seasonal festival, players can now test their skills against a fearsome new foe. Available to fight right now through its own event quest, Arch-Tempered Rey Dau is a much more powerful version of the lightning-based creature. And, if you're able to bring it down, you'll be...
News Monster Hunter Wilds' Big Spring Festival Is Live, Offers Cool Armour and Cosmetics
Spring has sprung
The so-called Festival of Accord is now live in Monster Hunter: Wilds, offering plenty of incentives for players to get stuck back into the action RPG over the next couple of weeks. Head over to the Grand Hub (assuming you've got far enough into the game) and you'll find that it's drowning in springtime decoration. Really, it's...
News Monster Hunter Wilds Overhauls Challenge Quests After Cheaters Broke the System
The Mark of Mastery can finally be yours
Capcom has announced immediate changes to how Monster Hunter Wilds' recently introduced Challenge Quests work. Challenge Quests task players with slaying specific monsters with preset weaponry, putting their skills to the test across timed leaderboards. But when these quests were brought in as part of Title...
News Monster Hunter Wilds' Limited Time Quests Are Being Completely Ruined By Cheaters
The real monsters
With the introduction of Title Update 1, Monster Hunter Wilds has been popping off in terms of player count — but there's now a less positive side to the game's continued popularity. We are, of course, talking about the rise of cheaters. As part of Title Update 1, Capcom has added special challenge quests that are only available...
Poll Are You Still Playing Monster Hunter Wilds?
Title Update 1 is here
It's been just over a month since Monster Hunter Wilds launched on PS5, and the action RPG's right back in the spotlight thanks to Title Update 1. This first major patch adds new monsters, new quests, a new multiplayer hub, and more, tempting lapsed players back into the creature-crushing fold. And based on how quickly Wilds'...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Poll What Review Score Would You Give Monster Hunter Wilds?
Apex predator
Monster Hunter Wilds has been out for about a week now, giving you plenty of time to break Hunter Rank 100 and then complain that the game simply isn't long enough. And you know what that means! As always, we want your review scores, which will factor into the game's user rating all across Push Square. Wilds has done extremely well...
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...
Poll So, Is Monster Hunter Wilds 'Too Easy'?
Authorised by the Guild
Before Monster Hunter Wilds actually released, you may recall that there were heated debates surrounding the game's overall difficulty. Of course, no one but reviewers had actually played Capcom's latest at that point, but that didn't stop hardcore fans from fretting over the title's supposed lack of challenge. In various...
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".
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...
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...
Poll Are You Playing Monster Hunter Wilds?
Going Wilds
Say goodbye to your free time over the next few weeks, because there's a new Monster Hunter in town. Capcom's oversized weapon simulator is back with Monster Hunter Wilds, and we want to know if you're jumping in. Monster Hunter World was obviously an unprecedented hit for the company, having been crowned Capcom's best selling title of...
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...
Video Monster Hunter Wilds Graphics Compared on PS5 and PS5 Pro
We look at all three settings
By now, you may have heard that Monster Hunter Wilds has... issues on PS5, and even PS5 Pro. Capcom's action RPG can struggle in terms of both visual quality and performance, often resulting in a disappointingly uneven experience. It's certainly not unplayable, but we were all hoping for better. So, in order to take a...
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...
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
