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Monster Hunter Wilds director confirms my suspicions: a bug made monsters run away too frequently in the beta and the full game doesn't have this problem
News It's not just you, monsters really were running away too frequently
Big Preview: Monster Hunter Wilds – Exclusive access and hands-on impressions of Capcom's most ambitious entry yet
Big Preview We flew to Osaka, Japan to visit Capcom and spend hours with a new build of Monster Hunter Wilds, and to meet the devs pushing the series' boundaries once again
Monster Hunter Wilds hitstop feels way better in the non-beta build, and the game's director was happy to juice it back up after overseas players apparently hated it in World
Monster Hunter Wilds weapons will land with more oomph in the full game
I spent 5 hours with a new build of Monster Hunter Wilds and it solved basically every problem I had after playing the beta – now this really feels like Monster Hunter World 2
Hands-on Big Preview | Monster Hunter Wilds feels like the World follow-up I always wanted
Metaphor: ReFantazio is the most fun I had with a JRPG this year and its Cyber Monday price is a new record low
Cyber Monday The JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio is available at a record-low price with this Cyber Monday deal.
All Genshin Impact Dendroculus locations
Guide Where to find all 271 Dendroculus in Genshin Impact
"It makes me sick": Skyrim modder with 475,000 downloads, fed up with "daily harassment," abandons modding after "thousands of hours" of work on what she calls "the most advanced follower to ever exist"
News Their departure has sparked another conversation about how the modding scene looks after its own
In an expansion-heavy time for Xbox, Phil Spencer says he doesn't like "expansions that are manipulative" – "I don't want it to be, like, the third level that you cut"
news "Not every game will do expansions"
A Deep Rock Galactic player became a real-life explosives miner as "a direct result" of the "silly little dwarf game," and he couldn't be happier with his career
Interview Interview | Yes, he has an epic beard
Ubisoft kills "inaccurate rumors" around Assassin's Creed Animus Hub: rewards are "entirely free," no paid sub or battle pass, and "no extra cost" to missions
News Update: Ubisoft steps in to set the record straight
Meet Elden Ring's newest hero: the Lore Accurate Knight, a sword-and-board legend crushing bosses with a simple Dark Souls-inspired loadout
news "Imagine how they must feel losing to a common knight"
Helldivers 2's new Democracy Space Station is killing so many Helldivers that the devs are giving out free shields and extra lives in a "temporary" emergency fix
News Update: Arrowhead agrees the DSS is a team-killing nightmare
That slick Prince of Persia action roguelike from the Dead Cells co-dev is getting a huge update that throws out the old art style and doubles the content
news The Prince of Purple is gone, but may return in a skin
Avowed is selling 5 days of early access, and in a surprise twist fueled by Xbox buying everyone, Obsidian's RPG is coming to Activision Blizzard's Battle.net
news Fork over $90 and you can play Avowed five days early
Under PS5 dominance, Microsoft says you don't need a console at all, actually everything is an Xbox, and "you're probably reading this right now from an Xbox"
news What isn't an Xbox, really?
No Man's Sky dev shares another reminder of how hard game dev is: 20 different formats to balance, with "around 140 combinations of graphics options" on PC
news "Which I hope conveys the complexity involved in releasing a large cross platform game like ours"
The First Descendant devs have "important news" for fans of the RPG shooter: "A decision has been made to add the much-requested 'Jiggle Physics'"
news You asked for it
Xbox faces hundreds of striking employees as union at Bethesda parent ZeniMax stages a walkout to "tell Microsoft to stop dragging their feet"
news ZeniMax Workers United reckons "Microsoft runs on outsourcing"
Destiny 2 is kind of a mess right now: bugs are making it harder to enjoy my favorite MMO and it only seems to be getting worse
Feature Opinion | Weightgate is frankly the least of Destiny 2's problems
"Please give it a chance": After 3,200 mixed Steam reviews for his new MMO, RuneScape creator explains the soft-reset class design confusing some players
news Brighter Shores plays very differently from RuneScape, even if it can look similar
Sony boss admits forcing PC gamers into PlayStation accounts can "invite pushback," but insists they have to keep games safe – which doesn't really track in single-player
news Horizon Zero Dawn remastered is the latest PC game to require a PSN account
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero "saw outstanding sales," and Bandai Namco says roughly 90% of that was from European and North American fans
news Dragon Ball, in general, is orders of magnitude bigger outside Japan
Genshin Impact community rallies to pummel one player "shamelessly admitting that I want friends" with so many friend requests that they can barely respond to everyone
news "I managed to play on co-op with one person last night briefly, and they were really kind"
