Immortals distills a raid experience into faster and briefer runs, but there's some work to be done on its combat as it ...

The gorgeous Dragonslayer Greataxe has a weight comparable to the Greatsword but is much more balanced in its design, featuring a melted iron aesthetic, modest proportions, and even a seemingly ...

One of the toughest choices facing Monster Hunter players when they first start out is which weapon type they should pick.

Call me impatient – please do, you are correct – but it's taken just weeks for Monster Hunter Wilds to worm its way straight ...

Monster Hunter Wilds is a mammoth success for Capcom, but the dinosaur-carving series continues to struggle with its long, ...

I played through Wilds with lance, great sword, and hammer, partly because big weapons provide a large canvas for weapon designs, which are universally stellar here. This was the best that lance ...

The core gameplay loop of Monster Hunter Wilds is simple – slay monsters, collect resources, craft cool armour, upgrade ...

Castlevania Lords of Shadow developer MercurySteam’s new game is a soulslike action RPG with modular weapon crafting and ...

Difficulty creep is a real thing, and it can be harder to quantify when I have twenty years of Great Sword experience already ... overall visuals and armour designs are an exquisite new high ...

I am inordinately hungry for new challenges to poke with a lance and cleave with a great sword if only for the kinetic thrill of it. But with the design floor that Wilds has set and the monster ...

Where Wilds' world design does start to feel radical is in ... ranging from the pulverising heft of the Great Sword and the swift Dual Blades, to the more exotic likes of the Insect Glaive and ...