Items tagged with Capcom
Monster hunters across the planet have something to look forward to. Capcom has released a fresh new patch for Monster Hunter Wilds, packed with lots of improvements and new content, but most importantly, lots of PC-specific performance optimizations.
The patch is called Title Update 2 and the version number is...
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You may recall that earlier this year your author here was quite excited about the launch of Monster Hunter Wilds. That enthusiasm, like much of the community's, was somewhat muted after we actually put a few dozen hours into the game. It's not that the game is bad; rather, Monster Hunter Wilds is a considerable...
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With Resident Evil Requiem, Capcom is looking to take the popular series back to its horror roots. Recent entries in the franchise, including the remakes of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 4, have leaned more into action-oriented gameplay. The game’s producer, Masato Kumazawa, however, says that Requiem's core...
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Capcom is looking to keep the momentum going for Monster Hunter Wilds after its wildly successful launch. The latest update to the game brings time-based quests for players to complete and earn bragging rights or various in-game rewards. However, as with other online games, cheating can be a problem. To try and ward...
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Having trouble finding a newfangled GPU in stock? Join the club. Alternatively, you can join NVIDIA's GeForce NOW cloud gaming service, at least until things calm down at retail (and perhaps grow a killer 5-foot beard while you wait -- sigh). All that aside, GeForce NOW is actually a capable service and it's gaining...
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It was evident shorty after its launch that Monster Hunter Wilds was going to be a success story for Capcom. The game managed an impressive feat on PC, passing the million-concurrent-players mark over the weekend. Even some of the rough edges that showed up were unable to slow down gamers from embarking on multiplayer...
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Capcom has realized a relatively successful launch with Monster Hunter Wilds. The game has seen its peak concurrent player count pass over a million players, undoubtedly playing a role in Steam topping 40 million concurrent users for the first time in its history. However, it hasn’t all been smooth sailing, despite...
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The latest entry in the venerable Monster Hunter game series is set to launch tomorrow. Known as Monster Hunter Wilds, it's the next mainline title and marks the beginning of the sixth generation of Monster Hunter games. Wilds brings a great many innovations to the storied franchise, including a persistent mount, the...
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Capcom has had a lot of success revisiting titles in its back catalog, which the company announced will continue to be a part of its strategy late last year. This is especially true of one of its most popular franchises, Resident Evil. This series has already seen several ports throughout the years, while the second...
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Casual fans could be forgiven for being surprised at our headline. After all, some storied fighting game franchises have been featuring guest characters for decades, like Spawn in Mortal Kombat 11, or Darth Vader in Soul Calibur IV. Street Fighter has done many crossovers over the years, with Capcom's iconic...
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Monster Hunter Wilds is one of the most hotly anticipated game releases of early 2025. While players had the opportunity to participate in an open beta late last year, Capcom heard gamers' pleas to be able to get one more beta in before the game’s official release. It will mostly be the same experience seen in the...
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If you watched The Game Awards last week, you'll already know that legendary game developer Hideki Kamiya, known for the Bayonetta series as well as the inception of Devil May Cry, is once again back working with Capcom under a new studio named 'Clovers'. This, and the company's first game—a sequel to PS2 cult classic...
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Monster Hunter is a series with a long and storied history, but if you're not a hardcore fan of Japanese action games, you might not know that. The upcoming Monster Hunter Wilds, which will usher in the sixth generation of the series with its launch in February, is in fact the twenty-sixth Monster Hunter game release...
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The debate of console versus PC gaming has been raging for what seems like a millennia, with a constant push for dominancy. According to Capcom, makers of franchises such as Street Fighter, the PC may be winning. Capcom recently reported its financial results, and its PC game sales accounted for about 54% of sales...
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It's been a week now since Dragon's Dogma 2 released, and while the Steam reviews are slowly recovering—they're currently at 55% positive, up from a nadir of under 35%—the critical reviews have largely been glowing. It's certainly not a game for everyone, but it's definitely a good game for those who will enjoy it, and overblown controversies
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Capcom is working on several fixes for Dragon’s Dogma 2, and shared what players can look forward on the social media platform X. However, the timing of when these fixes actually make their way to gamers isn’t certain, just that Capcom plans on delivering at some point in the future. Capcom will be releasing different...
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When Dragon's Dogma came out in 2012, much of the world was still preoccupied with Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls Part V: Skyrim. It was a difficult time to be releasing an open-world fantasy RPG. In combination with the reality that the game had major performance issues on consoles and that it was not available on PC...
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If you're not already a fan, you may not be aware that the Monster Hunter game franchise is actually a huge, massive deal outside of the US, and it has been for a long time. The original game on the PlayStation 2 wasn't a big hit over here, but it was a massive success in developer Capcom's native Japan, and the...
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Capcom announced on the the social media network formerly known as Twitter, and now called X, that its "Outfit 3" DLC for all 18 launch characters in Street Fighter 6 is now available. Unfortunately for Capcom, the announcement did not go over so well, resulting in players calling out the publisher for its "dreadful...
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The largest fighting game tournament in the world is known as "Evo", short for "Evolution Championship Series." At Evo, top players take on one another in games like Street Fighter, Guilty Gear, Mortal Kombat, Tekken, The King of Fighters, and even more obscure titles like Idol Showdown and Them's Fightin' Herds. Evo...
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The relatively-recent re-makes of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 were updated recently, and the patched version appearing on Steam seemed to remove the ray-tracing and 3D audio options for most, if not all, users. It was a big enough bungle that we even reported on it, commenting that it could be just as easily...
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Modern games are getting big, in terms of storage space. Too big, arguably. Entry-level PCs and game consoles typically have 1TB or less of solid-state storage, and most newly-released games these days aren't satisfied with being installed on spinning rust. Tack on operating system files as well as overhead from...
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