Tag: Monster Hunter

Monster Hunter Wilds roars onto the scene in 2025

Monster Hunter World 2 is real, except it’s called Monster Hunter Wilds, and it’s looking brilliant – despite not launching until 2025

Monster Hunter World 2 is real, except it’s called Monster Hunter Wilds, and it’s looking brilliant. Capcom debuted Monster Hunter Wild at The Game Awards 2023 and announced that their new monster game is planned for launch in 2025 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.

Capcom’s world premiere trailer didn’t show us much about what to expect, but there were a handful of exciting details. For one thing, the world looks more lived in, with herds of monsters roaming around, doing their own thing. The Wirebug is gone, but in its place, you get a Chocobo-looking monster that lets you race across the plains and fly through the air.

Monster Hunter Wilds is Capcom’s first foray back into open-world games after taking a more restrained approach in Monster Hunter Rise for the Switch. It comes after several years of critical and commercial hits, including Monster Hunter Rise, Resident Evil Village, Resident Evil 4 remake, and most recently, Street Fighter 6. Monster Hunter and Resident Evil in particular helped Capcom achieve record-breaking revenue earlier in 2023.

2024 might be the year of Dragon’s Dogma 2, but Capcom promised more Monster Hunter Wilds info in summer 2024.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

All The Game Awards 2023 announcements and trailers

We’ve rounded up all The Game Awards 2023 announcements and trailers, including Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Monster Hunter Wilds, and more

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The Game Awards 2023 announcements stretched across nearly every video game genre, from promising indies to hotly anticipated 2024 games and a few big names for 2025, including Monster Hunter. Square Enix debuted another Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth trailer, Atlus showed up with Metaphor ReFantazio, and even Hellblade 2 made an appearance. Briefly. It still doesn’t have a release date either.

Three hours of announcements is a lot for anyone to get through, but we’ve rounded up all The Game Awards 2023 announcements and trailers below, with links to more detailed stories for a few of the biggest reveals.

If you’re wondering who won what, check out our roundup of The Game Awards 2023 winners.

Winter’s Monster Hunter Now update adds more monsters and weapons

Niantic has big plans for the next Monster Hunter Now update as the mobile game expands even further with new monsters and more weapons

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Niantic has big plans for the next Monster Hunter Now update, as the mobile game expands even further with new monsters and more weapons. The Monster Hunter Now winter update “Fulminations in the Frost” launches on Dec. 7, 2023, and adds a snowy landscape where you can hunt some of the action game series’ most recognizable critters.

Barioth, Radobaan, Banbaro, and Zinogre join the fray along with two smaller monsters first introduced – appropriately – in Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, Wulg and Cortos. Niantic is also adding two classic weapons that fans have asked for since the game first launched – the Lance, good for battling larger monsters thanks to its long reach, and the Dual Blades, meant to make close-range encounters a bit easier.

Zinogre first showed up in Monster Hunter Portable 3 in 2010 on the PlayStation Portable before turning up in MH3 Ultimate and every game thereafter. The same is true for Barioth, though that one skipped out on Monster Hunter 4, while Radobaan lumbered onto the scene in World and Banbaro sprang up in Iceborne.

Niantic also said Fulminations in the Frost will introduce balance updates, including how close- and long-range weapons function and an increase in the number of items you can carry. There’s a new feature as well. Niantic is keeping quiet about that until December rolls around, but it’s meant to help “bring players together during the holiday season.”

Monster Hunter Now is available as a free download on Android and iOS devices.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

January 2023 game releases: Upcoming titles being released this month

There are some bangers already.

It’s a new month and a new year, and January is bringing quite a few great games to be excited about.

A game based on one of the most popular manga and anime series will kick off this month’s big releases in less than a week, while one of the best games on the Nintendo Switch is finally getting ported to all other  current- and previous-gen consoles. A long-awaited open-world RPG from Square Enix, where you talk to your wrist, is also on the menu.

Switch owners will be treated to the next installment in the Fire Emblem series, while survival horror fans are getting the highly-anticipated remake of one of the best games in the genre. At the very end of January, we’ll get another SpongeBob game and a new road trip adventure.

Plenty of titles to look forward to, so let’s go over the best games releasing in January 2023.

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Monster Hunter Rise is coming to PS5 and Game Pass in 2023

Monster Hunter Rise is finally launching on PS5 and Xbox, nearly two years after Capcom’s RPG landed on Switch

Monster Hunter Rise is finally Wirebug-swinging its way to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S, including Game Pass for console and PC, on Jan. 23, 2023, nearly two years after Capcom released the RPG on Nintendo Switch. Game Pass Ultimate subscribers can also play Rise anywhere via cloud gaming. 

This marks the first time a Monster Hunter game will be available across all current platforms, including PC via Steam.

Rise will launch with all content up to Version 10, which includes several monsters that were unavailable when the game first released and the proper ending for single-player mode. Sunbreak, Rise’s first major, paid expansion, will be available on PlayStation and Xbox platforms at a later date, sometime in spring 2023.

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On Xbox Series X and PS5, you can choose between 4K visuals and up to 60fps or drop the resolution down to 1080p and push the frame rate up to 120fps. The PS5 version also includes support for the DualSense’s adaptive triggers, though whether this is for all weapons or just a few is slightly unclear. Capcom’s rundown only mentioned feedback for Sword and Shield users and Gun-related weapons.

Bear in mind that if you’re playing on PS5 and want to take part in multiplayer, you’ll need a PS Plus subscription of some kind.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

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Wild Hearts is Fortnite meets Monster Hunter in new trailer

EA released the first Wild Hearts gameplay trailer, showcasing the RPG’s unique building mechanic

EA released a new Wild Hearts trailer showcasing the hunting RPG’s gameplay for the first time since its announcement. The trailer is a meaty one, clocking in at seven minutes, and it follows a hunter as they track down a massive boar monster that looks like it fused with a tree at some point in the recent past.

Awe-inspiring as this fantastical monster is, the environments it roams freely across – for the time being – are equally impressive. The tree boar first appears in an otherwise serene field full of flowers, before eventually leading the hunter on a chase through a dimly lit bamboo forest and ending the encounter near a massive cherry blossom tree infusing the arena with its dusky pink hue.

What makes this Wild Hearts trailer stand out even more, though, is the building mechanic. A previous trailer suggested the hunter could invent things on the fly, and it looks like that holds true. The new trailer shows the hunter imagining and building a number of contraptions, including a zipline that lets them reach the field where their quarry awaits.

It looks like this same power also comes in handy during combat, both with weapon enhancements and getting a height advantage, so Wild Hearts may just be able to carve itself a firm niche alongside Monster Hunter after all.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

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Wild Hearts trailer shows off Koei Tecmo’s Monster Hunter-like

Wild Hearts from EA and Koei Tecmo may resemble Monster Hunter, but it looks like the new RPG puts its own unique spin on combat

EA and Koei Tecmo debuted the first full-length Wild Hearts trailer, showcasing the action RPG’s gorgeous, colorful world and some of the beautiful and deadly creatures you can expect to find in it. 

Your goal in Wild Hearts is taming, well, the wild. The trailer’s narrator says the world has slid into ruin thanks to the Kemono, monsters the size of small mountains and creatures with electrified manes and breath of fire who roam the wilderness of Azuma unchecked. That’s where you step in.

While Wild Hearts undoubtedly takes inspiration from Capcom’s hit series Monster Hunter, Koei Tecmo is doubling down on combat. Familiar weapons such as longswords and bows turn up in the trailer, but with a twist. The narrator says you have an inventive spirit and, over time, you create new combat aids – things such as wooden bombs, towers infused with electricity, and elaborate traps to corner your foes.

How you go about developing these didn’t come up in the trailer, but it did show what looks to be a unique take on weapons as well. Swords infused with lightning and other elements are no stranger to Monster Hunter, but in Wild Hearts, the main character wielded not just an electric katana, but one with a segmented blade. Other modified weapons also made an appearance, so it seems there’s more to Wild Hearts’ combat than initially meets the eye.

Wild Hearts is set to release Feb. 17, 2023, for consoles, excluding Nintendo Switch, and PC.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF

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Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak demo goes live soon

Capcom is letting fans try the expansion for free on Nintendo Switch and PC.

There were plenty of great announcements during the Capcom Showcase, but nobody is eating better than Monster Hunter fans.

During the show on Monday, Capcom announced Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak is getting a demo. The best part is it’ll go live on Nintendo’s eShop and Steam later today! You’ll be out tracking Rathalos in no time.

The Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak demo arrives on June 14, 2022, at 7:00 P.M. PDT // 10:00 P.M. EDT and 2:00 A.M. GMT on June 15, 2022. Director Yoshitake Suzuki claims that any technical hiccups you might encounter probably won’t be in the final game.

“Just letting you know that some balance adjustments made to the final game aren’t fully reflected in the demo,” Suzuki said on Twitter. “We’ll post full details about adjustments shortly before release!”

Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak comes out June 30, 2022, for Nintendo Switch and PC. 

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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‘Monster Hunter: Rise’ will not support cross-play between Nintendo Switch and PC

If you plan to double-dip on Monster Hunter: Rise’s PC port, know you’re leaving Switch progress behind.

Anyone hoping that the upcoming PC port of Monster Hunter: Rise  would play nice with its Nintendo Switch counterpart is in for a big disappointment. According to developer Capcom, neither cross-saves nor cross-play will be part of the game.

Monster Hunter: Rise came out on Nintendo Switch  back in March and is already one of the  highest-selling titles of the year. As Capcom is looking to  make PC its primary platform, a port of Monster Hunter: Rise, along with its forthcoming Sunbreak  expansion, are coming to PC next summer. The port will support loads of graphical bells and whistles that aren’t available on the Switch version, but sadly, progression and play between the two platforms aren’t among those features. 

“We’ve heard your requests for Cross-Save/Cross-Play for Monster: Hunter: Rise and Sunbreak,” Capcom said on Twitter. “Unfortunately, after looking into it throughout the development process, we found we are unable to implement it this time.”

It’s not shocking, per se, but easy to understand why many fans aren’t thrilled with this announcement. Monster Hunter requires you to play for hundreds of hours to reach its coolest content. So anyone that wants to double-dip and get the PC version for its technical improvements will just have to grind to the end game again. 

Cross-saves, in particular, isn’t an uncommon feature between Switch and PC, either. The recent Diablo 2: Resurrected, for example, allows for it. As for cross-play between platforms, it’s more of a standard every day. Fortnite  is huge on Switch and has cross-play.

Here’s to hoping Capcom changes its tune before Monster Hunter: Rise  makes it to PC.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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‘Resident Evil’ developer Capcom wants PC to be its primary platform for games

Resident Evil could always use more neon-illuminated keyboards!

Capcom might be known for console games, but the publisher and developer want PC to be its primary platform, Nikkei  reported Friday and summarized in English by Bloomberg  reporter Takashi Mochizuki. Capcom’s President and COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto told Nikkei that the company intends to make this happen soon.

“[Tsujimoto] says the company wants to set PC as [the] main outlet for its game software,” said Mochizuki on Twitter. “By 2022 or 2023, Capcom hopes sales of games on consoles [and] PCs to be [equal].”

It’s not a surprising statement as Capcom has done simultaneous releases between PC and console versions of its games for some time now. A recent example is Resident Evil Village, which came out on PC the same day as its console counterparts. Similarly, Monster Hunter Rise, initially a Nintendo Switch exclusive, will come to PC next summer. That’s including the Sunbreaker expansion too!

Check out the slick trailer for Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak for yourself below.

Though Monster Hunter: World’s massive success on PC is likely the motivating factor behind Tsujimoto’s statements — as the game sold exceptionally well on PC. Similarly, Resident Evil 2  did gangbusters on PC back when it came out. Until Capcom comes out and explicitly states why, however, all we can do is speculate.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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