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Monster Hunter Outlanders brings the open-world creature hunting adventure to mobile games. It’s a stark difference from Monster Hunter Now, which currently follows the Pokémon Go formula, with a more refined focus on open-world exploration and combat.

The game is being developed by Capcom and TiMi Studio Group, the team that worked on Call of Duty Mobile, Pokémon Unite, and Age of Empires Mobile. It’s a solid group who have a history of working on mobile titles, and Monster Hunter Outlanders is set to be another free-to-play experience for players to join. For those who want to try the game as soon as possible, there’s a chance you might be selected to join the beta playtest, but not everyone will have a chance to do.

We still have a pretty long time to wait before Monster Hunter Wilds comes out; an entire quarter of a year, in fact. But that hasn’t stopped the game from putting up some dominant numbers on Steam.

According to Steam DB, Monster Hunter Wilds currently has the fourth-highest 24-hour peak in concurrent players of all games on Steam at 463,798. The number is more than double Black Ops 6‘s peak in the last 24 hours, and comes very close to the popular new CoD title’s all-time peak set last week during its launch on Steam. It’s an incredibly impressive mark for the game, especially considering this is just an open beta, and the full release of the game doesn’t come until February 2025.

After what felt like an endless drought, it’s hard to believe that Monster Hunter Wilds is just around the corner. While the game isn’t out until next year, Capcom is extending an opportunity to certain lucky players to start hunting as early as next week.

This upcoming open beta is immensely exciting for longtime fans, especially since you’ll be able to carry over your character and a few special rewards (more on those later) into the main game when it does finally release. Read on to learn just how to get into the beta—because of course there are a few strings attached.

Monster Hunter has always been fairly niche as far as Capcom’s game series go, coming closest to the mainstream with 2018’s Monster Hunter World. That hasn’t stopped it from amassing a dedicated fanbase, however, and Capcom has finally pulled back the curtain on the series’ latest entry.

Monster Hunter Wilds looks to be absolutely massive in every way imaginable, from its monster-filled world to the scope of the monsters inhabiting that world to the selection of weapons with which you’ll be asked to brutally slaughter them. After much teasing since last year’s Game Awards, Wilds finally had its release date announced at today’s State of Play presentation: February 28, 2025.

Niantic is teaming up with popular YouTuber MrBeast to offer an exclusive questline for unique cosmetic items in Monster Hunter Now.

The limited-time quest event, which starts on July 27, gives you exclusive armor including the classic MrBeast hoodie outfit and Face Paint, as well as a Guide Card, a Hunter Medal for your account, and a cool-looking MrBeast Sword and Shield weapon.

I don’t like Monster Hunter. Despite multiple friends trying to pull me into different iterations of the series, it’s just never been my cup of tea. The graphics have looked good, the mechanics interesting, but it’s never grabbed me. Then I saw Monster Hunter Wilds.

To say the demo of Monster Hunter Wilds I saw at a behind-closed-doors Summer Game Fest preview was impressive would be my understatement of the year. It blew everything else I saw and played out of the water: The enormity of the world and its creatures, the fluidity as we moved from biome to biome seamlessly, and the overwhelming options at your disposal in your pursuit of a beast. In one hunt, I saw a particularly hearty Doshaguma climbed on, sliced, shot, lured into a gigantic sandtrap created by a different monster to thin its herd, baited into a fight with a massive dragon that breathed lightning on the thing, chased into a massive sandstorm that turned day to night, had huge stalactites dropped on its head as it pursued our character through a cave, and finally finished off with the help of other hunters—and throughout, it seemed we’d only scratched the surface of the battles awaiting us in Wilds.

After almost six months of waiting, we finally got a full look at how Monster Hunter Wilds will play today, with Capcom showing off its dynamic world, new monsters, and upgrades to how you will use weapons.

We already knew Monster Hunter Wilds would feature huge shifting environments that add unique elements to hunts, including in-game events and the weather changes that alter your surroundings. But during the May PlayStation State of Play, Capcom showcased how every monster and even the world blend seamlessly. 

You can save a staggering 67 percent on Monster Hunter: World on Steam this week, so it’s the perfect time to jump in.

With a staggering 91 percent-positive rating, Monster Hunter: World is still going strong six years after launch. If you’re a PC gamer and still haven’t played it, now you can pick it up for pocket change.

Monster Hunter fans tuning into the latest Capcom Highlights show were left baffled by an odd announcement for the franchise.

Capcom issued an advanced warning that Monster Hunter Wilds would not feature at the event, but it wasn’t complete radio silence for the franchise due to news concerning other titles.

Capcom issued a warning to hopeful fans eager to see updates on Monster Hunter Wilds at the upcoming Capcom Highlights shows—the upcoming title won’t be present.

Two Capcom Highlights shows have been set, with the first on March 7 followed by a second show on March 11, but Monster Hunter Wilds will not feature in either.