A year removed from its 20th anniversary, Capcom’s monster-hunting franchise returns in 2025 with Monster Hunter Wilds. The prolific series has lived through several generations of home and portable ...

This vampire healing build will let you suck the life out of enemy monsters — literally — in “Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection.” ...

The Monster Hunter series gives players a wide range of weapons to play with, allowing them to choose which tool to use to take down the game’s giant creatures. While the franchise has introduced new ...

If you aren’t familiar with the Wounds system in Monster Hunter Wilds, it is a companion mechanic to the game’s Focus mode, both of which debut with this latest entry in the franchise. Focus mode ...

An incredible evolution of an already great spin-off series.

Don't even bother trying to talk to these monsters.

Monster Hunter Wilds' crown hunting is the informal name the Monster Hunter community gave to the practice of, well, hunting crowns. If you've never even seen a crown in Monster Hunter, there's a good ...

Monster Hunter has always been a series built on trust. Players put hundreds, sometimes thousands, of hours into learning weapon timings, monster patterns, and the quiet rhythm of the hunt. For those ...

If you’re here, that probably means that you want to play Monster Hunter Wilds, but you’ve heard things about the series’ prickly exterior. Punishing mechanics, finicky menus, arcane systems. The good ...

Congratulations, Monster Hunter Wilds players. Your game's the talk of the town right now, mainly because half the population of the world is playing it. There's one thing you can't have, though, no ...

When PW checked in with two authors whose forthcoming books feature monster-hunting protagonists, each cited what in retrospect seems an obvious antecedent: Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. In Costa’s ...

Capcom's third run at the Monster Hunter Stories spinoffs is a stat-cruncher's dream, even if the process can be a bit ...