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Monster Hunter Now (Free) for iOS and Android released earlier this month from Niantic and Capcom and I’ve been playing it daily and enjoying it quite a bit. Read my launch week review here . If you’ve already played something from Niantic involving augmented reality, there’s a lot you might find familiar in Monster Hunter Now . Whether you’ve played a ton of Monster Hunter like I have, or are completely new to the franchise with your first taste being Monster Hunter Now , I’ve put together a set of tips and tricks to help you during the early hours of the game. This guide will help you with the basics and also with some things to keep in mind to ensure you’re always making the most of your time and resources while playing Monster Hunter Now . Practice the basics of combat against smaller monsters in Monster Hunter Now You start out with the Sword & Shield weapon type in Monster Hunter Now , with the opening hunts quite simple. Use this time to learn your weapon and also hunt...

Monster Hunter Now (Free) for iOS and Android released earlier this month from Niantic and Capcom and I’ve been playing it daily and enjoying it quite a bit. Read my launch week review here . Whether you’ve played a ton of Monster Hunter like I have, or are completely new to the franchise with your first taste being Monster Hunter Now , this guide will help you with special skills for each weapon type in the game, how to unlock special skills, when to use them, and more. Since Monster Hunter Now is still new, there are more weapons planned to come in updates, and more weapon types means more skills. I will be updating this guide over time when we get more skills added in-game. What is a Special Skill in Monster Hunter Now ? Each weapon type in Monster Hunter Now has a special skill that gives you some invincibility frames and unleashes a devastating attack on the monster. These vary by weapon type. Special skills are available after a bit of playing. When to use special skill...

When I wrote about the best boomer shooters on Steam Deck last month , the response was amazing, and I had a few people ask why we hadn’t done a similar article for Nintendo Switch boomer shooters. We covered the best FPS games, but yea Well, there aren’t as many on Switch, but the number keeps growing. With the arrival of one specific enhanced and amazing release this week, the time was right. This list features every single boomer shooter Shaun or myself have played and enjoyed over the years. In addition to new games, I’ve also highlighted revivals, remasters of classics, and more here. So what is a boomer shooter? As I said in my Steam Deck list, I grew up playing the classics like DOOM and Wolf 3D, but I missed out on many of the other games in the genre like the Quake series. I consider boomer shooters as first-person shooters designed to feel and look like the cream of the crop from the 90s. Does that mean DOOM or Quake are boomer shooters? Well, that’s a bit complicated, but...

Well, that’s another Tokyo Game Show in the books. The 2023 show was my ninth time attending the Tokyo Game Show, and my eighth covering it for TouchArcade. I’m starting to feel the years, my friends. Luckily, my son has been attending the show with me for the last few years as TouchArcade’s stalwart cameraman. Having him with me keeps me from slacking off too much, no matter how tired I might get. Anyway, as I usually do, I’m finishing off my coverage for this year with some of my general thoughts on the show and what attending it was like. I often say there are only two types of weather for Tokyo Game Show: very very hot, or very very typhoon. This year, it seemed like the weather couldn’t decide. It was quite hot, and it also rained a bit throughout the day I was there. The trains were also running late, which meant that for the first time ever in my history of covering the Tokyo Game Show, I wasn’t there for the opening. Well, I suppose things happen. We didn’t come in too late, ...

As we usually do with Tokyo Game Show, we’re finishing out our coverage with a couple of round-ups and some thoughts. For the sake of efficiency, I’m combining two seemingly fully separate elements of the show: the indie area, and the merchandise area. While you might think they have nothing in common, there is one thing the two sections often share. They’re generally located quite close to each other on the show floor, and this year they were next-door neighbors. It’s an interesting strategic move, because people visiting the merch area will walk past the indies and perhaps see something cool. And indie developers showing off their games will be constantly tempted by all the interesting goods on sale and contribute some additional funds to the show’s proceeds. The perfect plan! Let’s start with the indie corner. This part of the show is always interesting to me because you can get a sense for where the general trends are in gaming. Sure, some indies have been working on things for a...

Monster Hunter Now (Free) for iOS and Android released earlier this month from Niantic and Capcom and I’ve been playing it daily and enjoying it quite a bit. Read my launch week review here . Whether you’ve played a ton of Monster Hunter like I have, or are completely new to the franchise with your first taste being Monster Hunter Now , this guide will help you with weapon types, weapons, unlocking weapons, and more. Since Monster Hunter Now is still new, there aren’t too many in right now, but I will be updating this guide over time when we get more weapons. Monster Hunter Now weapons list – every type The list below has every Monster Hunter Now weapon type as of this writing – Sword & Shield Great Sword Long Sword Hammer Light Bowgun Bow How to unlock new weapons in Monster Hunter Now You start out with just the Sword & Shield in Monster Hunter Now . The other five weapons are unlocked through story and Hunter Rank progression. Monster Hunter Now Great Swo...

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for September 27th, 2023. It’s a quiet Wednesday, and that’s not something that is all that unusual when it comes to Nintendo Switch. Tomorrow has almost thirty new releases on the schedule, so it won’t be staying quiet for very long. Anyway, enjoy a few new releases, plus some lists of new and outgoing sales for you to look over. I would hold on to my money for another day or two, though. I have a feeling you’ll find plenty of ways to use it soon. Let’s get to it! New Releases PAW Patrol World ($39.99) Another PAW Patrol game for all of the kids who love these pups, whether they be small kids or big ones. You get a decent-sized world to roam around in, some minigames to play, collectibles to find, quests to complete, and the option to play with a second player via local co-op. This isn’t really aimed at me, so I can’t say how good it is or not at satisfying its audience. But what I will say is that this is just the la...