We are a little over one month away from the highly-anticipated release of Monster Hunter Wilds. As is the case with most games when they near their release date, we’re starting to see more new things to get us excited about Wilds.
]]>Do you like classical music? Is your life set to a beautiful symphony invoving violins, pianos, and the occasional tuba? Do you yearn for the surreal event that will be tunes from the Elder Scrolls being played on a radio station that your grandparents might listen to?
]]>Capcom has today announced what a lot of us Monster Hunter Wilds fans expected: the game is going to return to our PCs and consoles one last time ahead of the big launch in late February. Well, the open beta will, anyway.
]]>Street Fighter 6 has just had yet another battle pass announced for it as it enters the 2025 season, filled with cosmetics for player avatars, stickers, and online challenger portraits. However for Street Fighter 6 fans who've been fiending for new costumes for the main cast, the announcement has gone down terribly.
]]>You probably already knew how popular Leon Kennedy was anyway, but if you didn't, Resident Evil 4 remake's speedy sales will probably clue you in.
]]>In recent years, some of gaming’s biggest breakout successes have been released during the post-Christmas lull between New Year and Spring. Traditionally, it’s supposed to be a quieter time on the calendar - where we’re all too full of turkey and trimmings and sated by games gifted over the holidays to have an appetite for anything new.
]]>I recently realised with some alarm that I've spent nearly 2% of 2024 playing Ace Attorney. That's not just 2% of my free time or even the time I spent awake, to be clear, but a whole percentage of the time I was alive in 2024, in-game in Ace Attorney. But honestly, what can you expect in a year when five previously almost-lost games from one of my favourite series were remastered and rereleased for modern systems, literally doubling the amount of Ace Attorney accessible to contemporary audiences within the span of only eight months?
]]>Just before we all check out of 2024 and prepare for the new year, Capcom hosted one final community update to address pretty much all the major topics the recent beta of Monster Hunter Wilds generated.
]]>After an almost two decade long wait, an Okami sequel is finally on the way, but that isn't the only thing Hideki Kamiya has in mind at his new studio.
]]>Capcom had a big night at The Game Awards this week with the return of a couple classic titles, and it sounds like they won't be the last.
]]>Move over Resident Evil, Capcom has a new remake-led prized pony in town, and it's name is Onimusha.
]]>From Sony, to Netflix, and back to Sony again, the art director of God of War: Ragnarok has shared he's joining Naughty Dog.
]]>Ahead of Monster Hunter Wilds release in a couple months time, the game's art director has shared just how long it takes to design one of its many huntable beasts.
]]>Monster Hunter Wilds fans are blessed today with multiple videos showcasing more of the gameplay. One of these clips, featured inside a hefty PlayStation Blog post, shows the return of a much-requested quirk that'll go a long way in making the action feel so much better.
]]>The home of Capcom’s development studios in Osaka is surprisingly unassuming. I’ve been here before, back in 2017 - but perhaps the most surprising thing is that Capcom’s recent successes haven’t really changed the publisher.
]]>The voice of Kratos himself Christopher Judge seemingly teased a God of War announcement recently, except there isn't actually one coming.
]]>There's a new trailer for the video game anthology series Secret Level, and yet, it does feel a bit weird to see Concord amongst it all.
]]>Hideaki Itsuno, father of the Devil May Cry series as well as other Capcom bangers like Rival Schools and Dragon's Dogma, has found a new home at LightSpeed Studios. It's here that he'll be working on new "AAA action games", and they're hiring right now!
]]>The Monster Hunter Wilds beta has being doing very well in terms of attracting players so far, but plenty of those folks seem like they might now be in danger of wetting the bed - either in fear or amusement - after encountering some graphical glitch nightmare fuel that makes the game not look like one you're planning on playing in 2025.
]]>Just in case there was any doubt that Monster Hunter Wilds is going to be one of 2025’s biggest releases, along comes Steam to prove that PC players will be among the first to jump into the highly-anticipated sequel come February.
]]>It seems there's been some confusion on who can play the upcoming Monster Hunter Wilds beta test, and Capcom is here to set the record straight.
]]>Monster Hunter Wilds fans rejoice; we're getting a massive beta test on all platforms soon. Announced today during a special livestream, Capcom announced a cross-play test coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Steam next week - and it'll support cross-play between all platforms.
]]>Netflix has reportedly closed its in-house triple-A game studio known as "Team Blue", with a number of high profile developers it'd hired to be part of that studio, as part of its efforts to expand into the video game sphere, having left the company.
]]>Monster Hunter Now feels like the biggest secret you’re probably not in on. In the West, I don’t think the game is nearly as popular as it should be. If I boot it up in London, you know, the gaming capital of the UK, I will at most find three or four other players logged into the game nearby. I’ve been to New York whilst playing, and it’s slightly better there, but not by too much. The same goes for LA.
]]>The God of War TV series that's been in the works at Amazon's Prime Video for a couple of years now is reportdly undergoing a shift in writing personel, with its previous showrunner and a cople of key producers having moved on to other things.
]]>What’s your favourite Monster Hunter monster? Depending on when you started playing the 20-year-old series, you’re probably going to have a different answer to that question. The oldest, most grizzled veterans of the series are going to have soft spots for the Khezus, the Diablos, the Fatalis. Later arrivals will reminisce fondly about the Nargacugas, the Royal Ludroths, the Mizutsune. Personally, I’m most fond of the Tetsucabra (I like frogs, OK?)
]]>I’ll admit, I didn’t get around to playing Resident Evil 4 until the remake dropped last year. I was just a wee sprog when the original came out, and honestly, I probably wouldn’t have appreciated it for what it was back then.
]]>I've played Guilty Gear: Strive, Tekken 8, and Street Fighter 6 against people in the states over the weekend, and I think it's safe to say that the war for better netcode in fighting games is pretty much won at this point.
]]>A new trailer for the upcoming video game anthology series Secret Level has leaked, and there's quite the number of famous voices in there.
]]>Ace Attorney fans, your chance for a new game isn't zero, as Capcom has promised you can expect more from the series in the future.
]]>You there. Have you got a minute? Did you stay up for September 24's State of Play broadcast from Playstation - the one that took place last night UK time? Well, Xbox has now let everyone know which of the games we saw at it are currently pencielled in to also be dropping on its platform, and if you'll just stop trying to walk through me, I can give you a quick roundup of the other big news from the show too.
]]>Everyone take a seat and brace yourself. We've finally got a release date for Monster Hunter Wilds! The latest big release from Capcom is set to launch worldwide on February 28, 2025.
]]>The PC version of God of War Ragnarok has officially arrived on PC. The game launched Thursday, September 19 on Steam, as well as the Epic Games Store. Ragnarok is the latest Sony first-party PlayStation title to make it to PC, but it doesn’t look like the audience showed up for this one.
]]>As part of Netflix's Geeked Week, the streaming giant has released a new trailer for the upcoming Devil May Cry anime, as well as an April 2025 release date.
]]>For those heading into Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster for the first time, Kent's photography challenge may prove a touch tricky to figure out. It has seen some changes since it's original iteration, swapping out a request for an erotic shot for a funny shot. This means you've got to figure out how to score a humorous photo worth at least 1,000 PP. This guide will take you through how to get a 1,000 PP humorous photo and complete Kent's photo challenge .
]]>In the Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster there are two shortcuts you'll want to unlock as soon as possible. Not only do these make navigating the mall a lot easier, they both can save time when rushing between missions or saving survivors. As such, it's in your best interest to unlock these as fast as possible. That's why we've written this guide on how to unlock the Wonderland Plaza shortcut in Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster as well as how to access to maitanence tunnels in Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster.
]]>The Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster is here, which means you'll be thrown back into Willemette for a few days exploring the mall, killing bosses, drinking orange juice, and saving survivors. There are 49 in total, and finding them all is a core part of the game. So to help you out, we've written a guide on all survivor locations in the Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster.
]]>One of the hardest achievements or challenges in the Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster is zombie genocider, which requires you to kill 53,945 zombies within a single playthrough of the main story or infinite survivor mode. It's obviously incredibly difficult to do so the regular way, but with this Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster zombie genocider guide we'll take you through the best way to tackle it.
]]>Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster is packed full of PP stickers, spread across the map. One of the biggest challenges players will want to do, aside from hitting credits, is tracking them all down. If you're stuggling to find a few PP stickers here and there, or want a step-by-step guide on where they all are, we've got a guide on all the PP locations in Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster.
]]>Dragon's Dogma 2 just got a fresh update, and it adds a new mode to the game specifically aimed at folks who want to have a more chill time exploring Vermund and Battahl, without worrying too much about stuff like having to pay for a room whenever they rock up in Vernworth.
If you didn't give DD2 a go at launch or bounced off of it pretty quickly, that's ok, but you might have missed out on something pretty great, especially if you're into games where you've constantly got to ask for directions and can have a nice cart journey ruined by a cyclops at any time .
Following on from some key tweaks that came alongside a free trial back in June, DD2's latest update for PC and consoles adds a casual mode to the game, with the description of it stating that it's designed to deliver "a more relaxed adveture at your own pace".
]]>If you've booted up the mobile versions of Resident Evil 4, 7, or Village recently, and found you couldn't play without an internet connection, you're not the only one.
]]>Hideaki Itsuno, director of numerous titles like the Devil May Cry series and Dragon's Dogma, is leaving Capcom after 30 years at the developer.
]]>Need even more fighting games in your collection? Capcom Fighting Collection 2 should help out with that.
]]>Take note, other developers: this is how you do it. Capcom has removed gender-restricted armor sets from Monster Hunter in the upcoming PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC title, Monster Hunter Wilds.
]]>As we’ve previously reported, Gamescom 2024 is the first place that the public can play Monster Hunter Wilds. Luckily for me, then, that I was pretty much first in line to play the public demo of the game – and I’m here to tell you that the combat flow is even faster than it was in Monster Hunter World, and even more dynamic than it was in Monster Hunter Rise.
]]>Come on, watch this trailer below and tell me that it doens't look like on the most exciting, weird, and varied games you've seen come out of Capcom? Monster Hunter Wilds may not yet have a release date, but the game is looking better than ever. Revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live, the next big Monster Hunter release is set to launch on Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC in 2025 - and it's already looking like GOTY material.
]]>It's been a great year for fighting game events. Not only did Evo 2024 — the biggest fighting game tournament in the world — wrap up after breaking records, but we've seen growth across the genre, and across the globe. It feels like more attention than ever is on a historically niche style of game, as well as the culture of high level play surrounding it.
]]>Earlier this year, we saw the biggest open bracket video game tournament conclude - Evo 2024. With over 16,000 tournament entrants and many spectators alongside them, Evo made clear to the Las Vegas crowd that it's not going away any time soon. Or, well, you could argue it said the opposite! Not in terms of a permanent goodbye, but more of a holiday abroad, as Evo international events in France and Signapore were announced live during the Sunday finals.
]]>With the Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection on the horizon, a whole new generation of players will be able to hop into an official version of some of Capcom's most beloved games. This includes Marvel vs Capcom 2 which has a wide variety of merits, including a small selection of original characters.
]]>There's now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber - check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don't worry if that's not for you, the main show will always be free.
]]>Hello gamer. I have some bad news. It looks like the global economy is having a bit of a rough time, with markets all over the globe taking a tumble towards the red. It's lacking aura, as the kids say. Wall Street has lost much of its rizz. As a video game website, this may not seem like relevant news to you, but it absolutely is. Companies like Nintendo, Sega, and Capcom have seen a decrease in stock valuation as a result of this historical crash. This article will go through the why of it all, ahead of what could be the starting gun of a global recession, in video game terms.
]]>Ever since I've been playing video games, I've been playing them on a pad. The lovable Xbox 360 pad. The brilliant PS4 pad. These days, the bulky and boisterous PS5 pad. I have never owned an arcade stick. This was not for lack of want - an arcade stick even today is a sign of gaming prestige as a Ferrari is for driving. Imagine my shock when earlier this year this all changed with the Vitrix Pro FS. In my late 20's, without kids nor mortgage, an ever-expanding waistline and ever-receding hairline, I am in theory the ideal market for such a product. It felt natural on my lap.
]]>Monster Hunter Now is good. Long-time readers of the site will know my opinion on the game from the often-gushing articles I’ve published over the past year. But from Summer Game Fest 2023, when I first played the game and fell in love, Niantic has improved the mobile title immeasurably.
]]>It looks like Monster Hunter: Wilds is skipping portable gaming platforms - including the Nintendo Switch - due to the technical limitations of the hardware. This was stated in a stakeholders meeting in response to a question asking about the game's absence from consoles like the Nintendo Switch.
]]>Street Fighter 6 just got a new teaser trailer for Terry Bogard, showing a bit of in-game cinematic footage of the legendary Fatal Fury and King of Fighters character in the World Tour mode. Alongside this comes a release window: Terry will be launching as DLC in Autumn 2024.
]]>Big news has just been dropped around the future of the Evolution Championship Series (Evo). Live on stage, Rick Thiher general manager announced several new locations for the event's near future. This includes a Los Angeles event in Feburary 2025 (where the recently announced Evo Awards will be held), but also an event in Nice, France in October.
]]>Games industry veteran Hideki Kamiya has shared that he still wants to make sequels to PS2 classics Okami and Viewtiful Joe.
]]>Devil May Cry already had an anime adaptation back in 2007, but Netflix is giving it another go with Adi Shankar (Castlevania) as creator, showrunner, and executive producer. While we've been eagerly waiting for news on it for months now, fans continue to uncover new details in the last piece of footage released in late 2023.
]]>Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess is a strange beast. A game that blends tower defense with squad-based strategy and third-person combat. When I first sat down with it, I was strapping in for the long haul. But any reservations I had were quickly cast aside – Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess captures your interest with a graceful pirouette and a flourish.
]]>Sorry, Exoprimal fans, but Capcom has announced that after the game's current season, the dinosaur shooter won't get any more updates.
]]>If there’s a publisher I trust to get a little bit weird, it’s Capcom. When Capcom experiments, the results are usually deeply interesting at the very least - but it’s also often brilliant. You get things like Devil May Cry springing from the ashes of a rejected Resident Evil 4 prototype, the unexpected brilliance of Ghost Trick, or the mechanical delights of Dead Rising. Basically, when Capcom takes a swing on this stuff, it has a pretty high batting average.
]]>In a crossover no one saw coming, senior developers from both Zenless Zone Zero and Street Fighter 6 have recently come together for a roundtable discussion about their games, game design philosophy, and perhaps most interestingly the thought process behind how to keep players invested in each title, while maintaining depth for hardcore players.
]]>There's now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber - check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don't worry if that's not for you, the main show will always be free.
]]>In addition to providing the promised details about the recently announced Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, last night's Capcom Next showcase also provided a bit more Resident Evil news than you might have expected. A fresh entry in the series has been oficially confirmed to be in development, with Resident Evil 7: Biohazard's director at the helm.
]]>Those of you that fit within the venn diagram of "spider lover" and "Monster Hunter lover" will be very excited to hear about the newly discovered Otacilia khezu.
]]>Do you remember March this year, a period of time that simultaneously feel like it took place both five minutes and and entire century ago? Dragon's Dogma 2 came out during it, and it might be worth giving a go now of you haven't thanks to to a big patch and free trial.
]]>In case you missed it, Capcom casually revealed that the original Dead Rising's getting a remake yesterday. It's called Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, and your first chance to see anything about it beyond the inital teaser trailer will be at the summer Capcom Next showcase the publisher's just announced.
]]>Competitor regristration for Evo - the world's biggest fighting game tournament - has concluded. With its closure, the tournament's organisers have revealed that it's surpassed 10,000 unique competitors, making it the largest video game tournament in history. This figure also does not include non-competitor ticket sales, which will remain available until the tournament's start in July.
]]>Last year, we learned that Capcom and Legendary Pictures had teamed up to develop a new live-action Street Fighter movie, and Talk to Me directors Danny and Michael Philippou were promptly attached to it. Now, the filmmakers have just departed the project due to scheduling issues, but that isn't stopping distributor Sony Pictures from setting a tentative release date anyway.
]]>The Dead Rising series has been dormant for what feels like an eternity. The last mainline game in the zombie-killing playground series was 2017’s Dead Rising 4. Longtime fans, however, only really consider the first two games to be worthy of the name - and it looks like Capcom might actually agree.
]]>It turns out that the developers behind Street Fighter 6 had considered unifying the character names across all regions, but eventually gave up. This means that, at least for the foreseeable future, M. Bison will be Vega, and Dictator. Oh, and Balrog is still M. Bison in Japan. Call 'em what you like.
]]>Year 2 of Street Fighter 6 will soon be getting underway in earnest, with the competitive pro tour getting back on the road and four new characters set to join the roster over the next twelve months. But this time, something truly different is happening: guest characters.
]]>If you've been itching to play the original 90s version of the game that kicked off the Resident Evil series by introducing us all to just how funny it can be to have a live-action intro that's so stuck in that decade it might as well be listening to Aqua's Barbie Girl while playing pick-up ball with prime Michael Jordan, you're in luck.
]]>Capcom might be working on a brand new Street Fighter film, but it turns out the original one still makes a surprising amount of money.
]]>Ace Attorney Investigations Collection has been announced at June 2024's Nintendo Direct, and it's set to bring a a couple of Ace Attorney spin-off titles, including one that's never previously been released outside of Japan, to Switch on September 6.
]]>Oh dear, the Street Fighter movie has had to pause progress, as it has just lost its pair of directors.
]]>According to senior developers on Street Fighter 6 meta events for Akuma - including a Twitch plays community stream and a raid boss style encounter inside the game's battle hub - were a success in the eyes of the development team at Capcom.
]]>Do you fancy more Monster Hunter World? Like, a lot more? If the answer is yes - which it very much should be - Monster Hunter Wilds has you covered.
]]>Following last week’s big Monster Hunter Wilds gameplay reveal at Sony’s State of Play, which Capcom labelled “1st trailer”, we got another look at the highly-anticipated action RPG earlier today during Summer Game Fest’s showcase event.
]]>Street Fighter is crossing over with SNK yet again via the Street Fighter 6 season 2 DLC. Terry and Mai from the King of Fighters series are set to make a return, as well as Street Fighter favourites M. Bison (somehow) and Elena.
]]>We weren’t counting on witnessing the reveal of a new Monster Hunter game when we woke up this morning, but we’re glad to see it nonetheless. Capcom just revealed Monster Hunter Puzzles: Felyne Isles out of nowhere.
]]>May 2024's PlayStation State of Play has given us all a fresh look at Monster Hunter Wilds in the form of the first gameplay trailer. Yep, buckle up MH fans, here's more stuff to get you hyped up for the game that a leaker claimed earlier this year wouldn't even be delayed even if GTA 6 happened to drop around the same time as it.
]]>Fans of iconic courtroom dramedy visual novels might think they're all caught up on Ace Attorney at this stage. Even if you never touched the series during its original 2011-2017 run, Capcom's admirable interest in preserving their older flagship titles means you've had ample opportunity to play the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, which hit then-modern consoles and PC in 2019, and was finally followed by the Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy earlier this year. Since 2021 you've even been able to play The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, a prequel duology that many fans were convinced would never be officially localised outside of Japan.
]]>If you forgot a new Street Fighter movie was happening, don't worry, me too, but the film's logo is here to remind us it exists.
]]>Ghost of Tsushima might have had a slightly slower start than God of War on PC, but over the weekend it took the top spot for PlayStation's biggest PC launch.
]]>Earlier this month, fighting game players across the US learned that the Wyndham Orlando Resort International Drive hotel was to close suddenly, pulling the rug out from under the upcoming CEOtaku tournament. This sucks for a variety of reasons, obviously. At a base level, a lot of hotel staff are getting laid off. For the attendees of CEOTaku, it will force a sudden change in travel plans, and the organizers must now undergo the expensive process of tracking down and securing a new venue on short notice. But more than that, it means that one of the last remaining in-person gaming subcultures is losing a home of sorts.
]]>Good news, people with a desire to virtually hit things, one of the many things that're going on in celebration of Minecraft's 15th anniversary can cater to that need. Especially if you fancy having a barney with the upcoming Minecraft movie, at least in a manner of speaking.
]]>The PlayStation first shipped in 1994 and very quickly made its way into the homes of gamers worldwide. It’s a console that - alongside the PlayStation 2 - many hold near and dear, for good reason. The console was home to a multitude of RPG’s, action games, and highly successful series that were finding their footing at the time, garnering Sony plenty of power that it’s since held on to and grown…for the most part.
]]>But the good news doesn't stop there for the action-RPG series. Capcom also announced that the series as a whole has soared past 100 million copies sold – a massive number, matching the behemoth Resident Evil series' numbers from 2020. It's clear that Monster Hunter is a key franchise for the publisher – and that's a good thing, since we're about to see even more Monster Hunter content launch in the year ahead.
]]>Akuma is ALWAYS a problem.
]]>Street Fighter 6 entering its second year can mean only one thing - a meta-shattering balance patch. About damn time.
]]>One modder is taking on the gargantuan task of giving Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite a serious makeover. The 2017 Capcom fighter has long been dunked on for poor visuals, but with a bit of elbow grease, cell-shading, and some modeling work, we may be on the verge of a real transformation for MvC's ugly duckling.
]]>Dragon's Dogma 2 seemingly has a path-tracing renderer hidden with it, and there's now a mod that lets you turn it on.
]]>Akuma has just gotten a shiny new gameplay trailer at Evo Japan, signaling the imminent arrival of the fighter to Street Fighter 6. Alongside the trailer, we now know that Akuma will be coming to the game on May 22nd.
]]>To help you out, we've written this quick guide that'll run you through everything you need to know about the Evo Japan schedule. It'll answer a variety of questions like when is Evo Japan? Where do I watch Evo Japan? And who can forget, what games are at Evo Japan!
]]>Dragonsplague annoying you in Dragon's Dogma 2? The game's next patch will make it slightly less frequent, and a bit easier to spot.
]]>The Dragon’s Dogma 2 Case of Sculptor’s Block quest seems straightforward, until you speak to the artist in question and hear his rather unusual request. The process of petrifying a griffin is pretty arduous and time consuming, though once you know where to look, the battle’s more than half over already.
]]>You there. Do you like Dragon's Dogma 2 and watching two things that aren't you fight each other? Well, if you've ever wanted to see what happens when an ogre decides it's just about had enough of a pack of goblins or a griffin and don't want to rely on random chance to make that dream come true, a new mod looks like it can help.
]]>Dragon's Dogma 2 is an early but solid contender for GOTY – we said that might be the case during preview, and we’re certain of it now. It’s a game of uncompromised vision, and where the original looked at the likes of Fable and Oblivion and asked “what does Capcom’s version of that look like?”, the sequel responds: “why don’t we make Capcom’s version of Dragon’s Dogma instead?”.
]]>If there was ever a game that needed a walkthrough, it’s Dragon’s Dogma 2.
]]>
