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Short of a catastrophic server meltdown, it was almost inevitable Monster Hunter Wilds would smash its way into the Steam record books. But I didn’t think it would happen this fast. As of 10:05 pm Pacific on launch day, Wilds has snatched a spot among the most-played games on Steam, surpassing the all-time peak player…
Monster Hunter Wilds is out in the, well, wild today, and giant lizards everywhere are suffering the predations of hunters with absurdly large weaponry. Unfortunately, if any of those hunters are having experiences like I did while playing for our Wilds review, they might be running into an unfortunate number of game crashes. Luckily, I…
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Modders are not missing a beat with Monster Hunter Wilds. At time of writing the game hasn’t even unlocked yet for plebs like me who don’t have pre-release access, and yet there are currently 33 mods on the Nexus Mods page and the number keeps going up. The highlight so far is Kitty Big, a…
It can be hard knowing where to start with Monster Hunter Wilds. Though undoubtedly streamlined in comparison to previous installments, this is still a Monster Hunter game, which means all sorts of systems to contend with. Even for series veterans, a good number of mechanics no longer work the same way, so no matter who…
Last year, Andrzej Sapkowski finished writing another Witcher book, marking his second return to the series. Though he declared he’d finished the Witcher saga in 1999, he returned to it in 2013 with Season of Storms, an interquel mostly set between existing stories, and left the door open for more books set before or during…
Sometimes during Steam Next Fest I enter a sort of fugue state where I download like a hundred game demos and go to town. I give them fifteen minutes to grab me. If they do, they get 15 more minutes. If they’re fun for half an hour, I play until they’re done or until an…
After a number of public betas and a recent benchmark tool, Capcom’s latest entry in the Monster Hunter franchise is here at long last. Monster Hunter Wilds sticks to the tried and tested formula that’s been the hallmark of the series’ 20-year run: accept questions to hunt and vanquish monsters, collect the dropped loot, use…
2023’s Dungeons & Dragons movie made a lot of clever references to Dungeons & Dragons the game, like one character being told to hold important quest items because (as we eventually realize) he has a bag of holding, or the moment an NPC walks mindlessly off in a completely straight line once his quest was…
Civilization 7 had a rougher-than-expected launch, thanks largely to changes that made it, as we said in our 76% review, “the most streamlined and pared-back the series has been in a long time”—and not always in a good way. The backlash was strong enough that developer Firaxis committed to fixes and improvements before Civ 7…