Monster Hunter Wilds looks very wild in new gameplay trailer

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The next mainline MonHun game was originally revealed at The Game Awards in 2023 but doesn’t launch until 2025.

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May 30, 2024, 10:38 PM UTC

We finally have a few more details about the previously mysterious next Monster Hunter game. Capcom released a new gameplay trailer for Monster Hunter Wilds at Sony’s State of Play event, and it features some free-flowing combat, a pretty dark-looking world, and what appears to be some new monsters — including one that looks a lot like a Final Fantasy chocobo. Naturally, it serves as a mount. Capcom describes the new game as taking place in “a living world.”

Wilds is a follow-up to 2018’s open-world title Monster Hunter World, which went on to become Capcom’s bestselling game ever, topping the likes of Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Devil May Cry. It was first announced at The Game Awards last year and is coming to the PS5, Xbox Series X / S, and PC sometime next year. 2023 also saw the launch of the MonHun mobile spinoff Monster Hunter Now from Pokémon Go developer Niantic and EA’s take on the monster-hunting genre with Wild Hearts.