🥹 The end of the Last of Us?

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Here’s everything you need to know this week in the world of gaming.

LATEST NEWS

🧟 Nobody bought the $386,000 special edition of Dying Light that came with parkour lessons and a full-size custom zombie survival shelter.

🤯 Split Fiction Becomes EA’s First 90+ Metacritic Game In Over A Decade, For those wondering, the last EA-published title that received a Metascore 90 or above was 2012’s Mass Effect 3, with a score of 93.

🤣 Over the weekend, Activision has become subject to criticism from video game fans after posting a collection of AI-generated ads for new mobile entries in the Guitar Hero, Crash Bandicoot, and Call of Duty series on Instagram and Facebook.

🥹 There's a whole lot of The Last of Us coming your way next month, with the PC release and second season of the HBO show, but the series creator says that this could be it.

🪩 Due to new tariffs, many more physical game discs may “simply not get made”.

🪖 Battlefield Labs releases its first community update - with more information on gunplay and movement philosophy for their future game.

🎉 Discord ‘in talks to become a public company’.

Monster Hunter Wilds

Monster Hunter Wilds is off to a historic start, smashing Capcom’s records with 8 million copies sold in just three days—making it the company’s fastest-selling game ever. On Steam, it’s already surpassed 1 million concurrent players, proving that anticipation for the 2025 release was well-warranted. With a 90 Metacritic score, it’s shaping up as a GOTY contender, even against heavyweights like GTA 6 which is expected towards the end of the year.

But while the gameplay is winning fans over, technical issues are dragging the experience down. Players are flooding Steam with complaints about crashes, poor optimization, and frame rate dips. Many with high-end rigs report struggles to maintain stable FPS, with one review slamming the game’s performance as “worse than the beta.” Another frustrated player wrote: “If I can run Cyberpunk maxed out, there’s no reason this should run like a PS3 game.”

Despite these issues, Monster Hunter Wilds is dominating the charts, proving once again that Capcom’s monster-slaying formula is unstoppable. Now, all eyes are on whether performance patches can smooth out the rough launch.

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