Monster Hunter Wilds’ poor post-launch reception bubbles up to the surface in shareholder meetings, though Capcom says it’s ‘committed’ to fixing performance and content woes

Monster Hunter Wilds is in a weird spot—it’s being buried under an avalanche of negative Steam ratings and community sentiment. At the time of writing, its recent reviews are “overwhelmingly negative”, with just 12% of over 20,000 user reviews being positive. Capcom’s fighting a war on two fronts—firstly, the performance for the PC version has…

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EA Japan exec laments Microsoft’s crushing layoffs, and the demands shareholders make for ‘short-term results from large-scale investments’

Microsoft’s latest round of brutal layoffs and studio closures have garnered more attention than usual—possibly because Phil Spencer had the gall to boast about how its gaming business has “never looked stronger” in the same announcement that saw 9,000 employees laid off across its gaming division and several major projects cancelled. So much attention, in…

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‘Night City lives on’—Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2 teaser trailer may give us our first glimpse at the series’ next protagonist

We finally got the news that Cyberpunk: Edgerunners will be getting a second season three years later, and in celebration of this, alongside the announcement, we got to see a short official teaser trailer for everything that’s to come. A good chunk of this trailer focuses on Season 1’s story, namely David and Lucy. We…

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Summer Games Done Quick 2025 is now live—kicking off a full week of speedruns and goofs to raise money for Doctors Without Borders

Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) 2025 has officially fired the starting gun, meaning dozens of speedruns, goofs, and charity drives are coming down the highway to a VoD near you. In case you’re unfamiliar, GDQ is a charity speedrunning event where streamers get together in a convention centre—this time, in Minneapolis—to livestream days upon days…

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Hands On: 30 Years On, DOOM’s “Super FX 3” Upgrade Gives SNES Players A More Polished Way To Rip And Tear

Hands-on with Limited Run’s new port and Retro-Bit’s rumble pad. When you talk about unbelievable programming achievements, the 1995 SNES port of DOOM is right up there. id Software’s FPS changed everything when it arrived on PC in 1993, and it was considered the benchmark release for many of the next-gen platforms which launched around…

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