Across the world of anime, plenty of characters have faced tragedy in their pasts. These backstories tug fans' heartstrings ...

SEATTLE — Before every Memphis basketball game, Tyrese Hunter gathers his team together for a pregame pep talk. When he did it last week, before the Tigers beat UAB in the AAC tournament title ...

Monster Hunter Wilds changes up some of the series’ regular mechanics, but perhaps the most important is the introduction of the new Wounds system. Wounds are specific spots on a monster which ...

Warning: Spoilers for Monster Hunter Wilds lie ahead. Good news. If you like Monster Hunter Wilds and are actively seeking one of weirdest experiences you might ever have in a game, modders have ...

Your ongoing objective shifts to “investigate the regions and raise your HR,” meaning you’ll increase it via experience gained when killing monsters, rather than passively through the story ...

Several of anime's most popular shonen anime feature body types that are questionable. Many One Piece characters could be accused of skipping leg day, but this is most apparent in ...

Monster Hunter Rise combines classic gameplay with quality-of-life changes from World, such as the Wirebug and Palamute sidekick. Monster Hunter World's success exploded the franchise in the West ...

Jeffrey Parkin (he/him) has been writing video game guides for Polygon for almost seven years. He has learned to love just about every genre of game that exists. Learning how to capture monsters ...

Ana Diaz (she/her) is a culture writer at Polygon, covering internet culture, fandom, and video games. Her work has previously appeared at NPR, Wired, and The Verge. Character design codes in ...

The first part of the story in Monster Hunter Wilds — reaching the credits and unlocking High Rank — is anywhere between 12 to 20 hours, but that number can vary wildly (even outside of our ...

Artian weapons are new to Monster Hunter Wilds, offering an endgame grind to keep players chipping away at drops with their desired bonus rolls. For a game packed with weapon types and crafting ...

The social network X suffered intermittent outages on Monday, a situation owner Elon Musk attributed to a “massive cyberattack.” Musk said in an initial X post that the attack was perpetrated ...