Monster Hunter World is enjoying a monstrous resurgence on Steam this week.
08.12.2023 - 04:15 / polygon.com / Pokémon Go / Ryozo Tsujimoto
A brand-new Monster Hunter game is coming. Capcom revealed Monster Hunter Wilds on Thursday at The Game Awards 2023, showing off its successor to 2018’s immensely popular Monster Hunter: World.
Monster Hunter Wilds is coming sometime in 2025 to PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X, according to the game’s first trailer. Longtime Monster Hunter producer Ryozo Tsujimoto said Monster Hunter fans can expect more information in summer 2024. In a separate video, Tsujimoto said that Monster Hunter Wilds will feature “a new level of detailed creatures and ecosystems,” hinting that the game’s reveal trailer includes other hidden details.
Wilds appears to be a fully open-world evolution of the Monster Hunter franchise, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2024. The first game in the franchise, Monster Hunter for Sony’s PlayStation 2, was released in 2004. The series’ popularity exploded with subsequent releases, Monster Hunter G and Monster Hunter Portable, leading Capcom to develop more than 20 sequels, expansions, and spinoffs.
Monster Hunter: World became the bestselling game in the franchise and Capcom’s bestselling game ever, with more than 19 million copies sold. World’s Iceborne expansion, released in 2019, sold more than 10 million units. The most recent mainline game in the franchise, Monster Hunter: Rise, has sold 13.6 million units. Capcom and Pokémon Go developer Niantic recently released a mobile spinoff game, Monster Hunter Now.
Monster Hunter World is enjoying a monstrous resurgence on Steam this week.
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Monster Hunter World has seen a giant player spike on Steam following Capcom's campaign to revive the game's online scene.
Capcom has shared a small update in regards to Monster Hunter Wilds.
Off the back of Monster Hunter Wilds' reveal last week, Capcom is kicking off a campaign to revive Monster Hunter World's online scene.
Capcom has lit a rocket under The Game Awards 2023 with the announcement of Monster Hunter Wild, the next entry in the blockbusting monster-battling series that is coming out in 2025.
During The Game Awards, Capcom released a trailer for the newest generational game in a well-known RPG franchise.
Capcom has been on a hell of a streak in recent years, but one of their biggest franchises has been taking a bit of a backseat. We got Monster Hunter Rise on the Switch in 2021, but we haven’t got a real boundary-pushing entry in the series since Monster Hunter World in 2018. Well, tonight at The Game Awards we got our first peek at the next generation in the franchise, Monster Hunter Wilds.
Capcom has lit a rocket under The Game Awards 2023 with the announcement of Monster Hunter Wild, the next entry in the blockbusting monster-battling series that is coming out in 2025.
Well, the good news is a new Monster Hunter's on the way — hooray! The bad news is we'll have to wait until 2025 play it — boo. Still, we do at least get an atmospheric teaser trailer to scrutinise until Capcom is ready to reveal more.
Capcom has finally announced its next mainline Monster Hunter title – Monster Hunter Wilds, launching in 2025 for Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and PC. Check out the first trailer below, with more details in Summer 2024.
Capcom have unveiled the next entry in their dinosaur hat/pants/jumper-making sim this evening, and it's called Monster Hunter Wilds. A kick in the dino groin to this year's monster hunting pretender Wild Hearts, perhaps? Who can say. Formally unveiled at tonight's Game Awards, this new Monster Hunter is coming in 2025, and looks to be the jazzed-up successor to Monster Hunter: World. That's not a diss on Rise (which was excellent). Just that it's being developed for PC and consoles first, rather than Switch. And it looks rad as heck. Come and watch the reveal trailer below.