Monster Hunter Wilds

Monster Hunter Wilds has “entered the area,” as it would say of one of its giant roaring enemies storming onto the scene. Far from an unbeatable monstrosity though, Wilds is the best starting point yet for the long-running series with its open world, streamlined combat systems, and slightly less clunky co-op system than past games….

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Bioware co-founder laments Jade Empire’s commercial failure and blames it on ‘the worst advice, absolutely moronic advice’ from Microsoft

BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk left the company with fellow founder Ray Muzyka in 2012, four years after the pair had sold the storied RPG developer to Electronic Arts. It’s fair to say that both are probably watching recent events with interest, after the lukewarm commercial reception to Dragon Age: The Veilguard saw the publisher react…

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Epic will give Fortnite cheaters ‘a second chance’ with a new, more forgiving ban policy, as long as they didn’t do anything too awful or illegal

Everybody makes mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes arise from good intentions—paving the road to Hell and all that—and sometimes, well, maybe you just didn’t think things through very well. But Epic Games says it believes in second chances, so if you’ve made a mistake in Fortnite at some point in the past, it’s going to give…

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Adult game dev reveals annual gamer ‘kink survey’ results: ‘Monster Girls’ are on top, but ‘Tentacles dropped out of the top 25’

Sexy games have been around for as long I can remember: I played Strip Poker on my Apple IIe way back in the ’80s. But Steam’s hands-off curation policy, the arrival of indie-friendly marketplaces like Itch.io, and the rise of monetization platforms like Patreon have led to a proliferation of adult games that means it’s…

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Monster Hunter Wilds: How to defeat Lala Barina

Very early on in Monster Hunter Wilds, you’re going to have to figure out how to defeat Lala Barina, a monster that looks and fights much differently from what you’ve faced so far. Soon after you enter the Scarlet Forest, you’ll notice something is amiss with the water—it’s bright red. This is due to the…

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How to defeat The Black Flame, Nu Udra

Monster Hunter Wilds’ Oilwell Basin is the game’s fire area, and after things go into disarray you’re faced with the terrifying explosive gorilla Ajarakan, which surely has to be the area’s Apex monster, right? Right? Once you manage to fend off two of the Ajarakan pack, another monster sneaks out from the shadows and instantly…

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