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What To Do When Monster Hunter Wilds Won't Let You Rest
14.4.2025
Monster Hunter Wilds has brought a ton of new features along for the latest entry in the series. While both the Wounds System and Power Clash mechanics are vital for combat, equally exciting is the addition of a Day/Night cycle, complete with weather events. Naturally, there is also a Rest feature...
The Week's Top Tips For First Berserker, Monster Hunter Wilds, South Of Midnight, And More
13.4.2025
This week’s hodgepodge of our top recent tips includes pointers about what the best armor in The First Berserker might be for your build, the best weapons for beginners in Monster Hunter Wilds, the best skills to snag in South of Midnight, and more.Read more
What The Heck Is Weapon 'Affinity' In Monster Hunter Wilds?
11.4.2025
Between the numerous mechanics and awkward co-op system, Monster Hunter Wilds can be quite a confusing game. This is most evident when you’re looking at the stat page for a weapon and come across the term “Affinity.” What exactly is that supposed to do? While the term sounds strange and there isn’t...
How To Use Every Offset Attack In Monster Hunter Wilds
11.4.2025
Monster Hunter Wilds introduces a lot of new mechanics to help you halt the momentum of the beasts you’re hunting. While the easiest way to topple them over is attacking their flashing red wounds, another option is parrying them with Offset Attacks. Mastering these can be a tough challenge, but...
Mastering This Complex Monster Hunter Wilds Mechanic Will Make You Look Like A Badass
11.4.2025
The Wounds System in Monster Hunter Wilds is certainly a standout among the new mechanics introduced. The most flashy one, however, has to be Power Clash. Going toe-to-toe and counterattacking a giant beast is sure to inject some hype into any hunt. However, this is yet another feature that isn’t...
How To Master Mounting In Monster Hunter Wilds
9.4.2025
Out of everything you can do in Monster Hunter Wilds, nothing beats mounting. Grappling onto a large beast as your multiplayer teammates watch on is always a fun time. While the mechanic has been refined from previous games, you’re more or less left to figure out the nuances on your own. Whether...
The Best Weapons For Beginners In Monster Hunter Wilds, Ranked
8.4.2025
After spending an hour or two in Monster Hunter Wilds’ character creator, the next most significant choice in the game revolves around the type of weapon you’ll wield. It’s not an irreversible choice, as you can change anytime you want from base camp; but most players wind up picking a favorite...
How To Snag Assassin's Creed Shadows' Legendary Weapons And More Of The Week's Top Tips
6.4.2025
This week, we’re here to point you toward Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ legendary weapons. We’ll also help you find a Split Fiction side story that’s off the beaten path, get ready for Diablo IV’s next season, and score a sweet ring in Avowed. All this and more awaits in the pages ahead.Read more
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Games To Welcome In April
4.4.2025
Here we are at the end of another week of…well, ain’t the world just a fantastic place right now? Fortunately, civilization has provided us with a number of means of escaping the realities around us. And, you know, that’s not inherently a bad thing. Times sure are interesting and uncertain, and...
No Matter The Hunt, These Are The Most Essential Items To Craft In Monster Hunter Wilds
4.4.2025
Given its name, you’d be forgiven for thinking Monster Hunter Wilds is solely about hunting down monsters. Sure, that’s a big part of the game, but there’s more to a hunt than slinging swords and shooting rocket arrows at beasts in the field. There’s the preparation, the anticipation…the crafting....
This Strange Monster Hunter Wilds Weapon Lets You Team Up With Insects
3.4.2025
I like choosing the strangest weapons in almost every game I play. I can’t help it. And much to my enjoyment, Monster Hunter Wilds gives me some good options. Although the Charge Blade earns some major cool points for its transforming gimmick, there is nothing quite like fighting alongside a...
Monster Hunter Wilds' First Major Update Promises Much-Needed Performance Improvements On PC
31.3.2025
Monster Hunter Wilds is rounding out its one-month anniversary with a major patch later this week. It’ll add new features and monsters to the game, as well as some urgent stability improvements on PC where performance has remained pretty abysmal since launch. Read more
Let's Compare And Contrast Monster Hunter Wilds' Heavy And Light Bowguns
31.3.2025
Monster Hunter Wilds offers up a lot of diverse weapon types to choose from, including the simple Great Sword, the transforming Charge Blade, and a giant music-based weapon known as the Hunting Horn. Two weapons that aren’t quite as distinct from each other are the similarly named Heavy Bowgun...
How To Find And Hunt Down Tracktail Lizards In Monster Hunter Wilds
26.3.2025
There is more to Monster Hunter Wilds than taking on gigantic animals with over-the-top weaponry. The Forbidden Lands is teeming with much smaller creatures categorized as Endemic life, and one of the first available side quests tasks you to find a Tracktail Lizard somewhere in the desert.Read more
Be The Most Stylish Hunter In The Desert By Changing Your Appearance In Monster Hunter Wilds
26.3.2025
I’ve heard tales of people willingly and happily spending an hour or two—sometimes even three or more—in a game’s character creator. Folks craft celebrity lookalikes, themselves, and their ideal vision of the perfect hero. Personally, I’m in and out in five minutes, ready to play. But what happens...
Go-To Strategies To Survive Atomfall's Irradiated Wilds
25.3.2025
If you’re just diving into Atomfall, you should know this survival title is designed to test your skills and patience (in a good way). With danger lurking around every corner and extremely limited resources at your disposal, you’ll want to approach every moment with caution and planning. Before...
How To Start Off Strong In Assassin's Creed Shadows And More Of The Week's Top Tips
23.3.2025
This week saw the release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows (read our review here) and if you’re one of the many people flocking to feudal Japan this weekend, we’ve got an assortment of tips to help you get started. We’ve also got recommendations for honing your ground game in Civilization VII and some...
How To Exploit Wounds In Monster Hunter Wilds
20.3.2025
Monster Hunter Wilds changes up some of the series’ regular mechanics, but perhaps the most important is the introduction of the new Wounds system. Read more
Monster Hunter Wilds' Confusing Co-Op Settings, Explained
19.3.2025
Multiplayer is one of the staples of Monster Hunter. It’s a far different game when playing alone, and the game doesn’t make it terribly easy to understand the nuances of its co-op system. So let’s go through the (unfortunately) convoluted “friend” system in Wilds so you don’t have to suffer...
Finding Avowed's Best Armor, Mastering Monster Hunter Wilds' Best Weapon, And More Of The Week's Tips
16.3.2025
This week, our Avowed tips will help you survive the Living Lands as we’ll guide you to the best armor, no matter what class you’re playing. We’ll also help you make the most of Monster Hunter Wilds’ best weapon, give you some pointers for Civilization VII, and fill you in on Suikoden I & II...