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Capcom showed a new look at the Monster Hunter Ascendance expansion and its new monsters. The new Skybound Eyrie area looks heavily focused on vertical exploration, and Seikret can fly. This will make the game really different in the new area

Capcom is reviewing difficulty in Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance. Director Takuro Hiraoka said Wilds was made more accessible for newer players after many dropped Monster Hunter: World before finishing the story because difficulty ramped up too quickly. Capcom did not expect Wilds players to get this good. “We had a bit of a gap in expectations. Maybe players got better than we expected,” Hiraoka said. For Ascendance, Capcom wants the main story to stay accessible while making the endgame much tougher for players who want a serious challenge. “We expect that if you purchase the DLC, you’re going to want to see as much of the story that we’ve presented as possible.” The really difficult content will be pushed into the endgame.

Capcom won’t be adding a 15th weapon to Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance. Executive Director Kaname Fujioka explained that the team considered it, but couldn’t find a concept with a truly unique playstyle. “We couldn’t find one that had a unique playstyle.” Instead, Capcom is focusing on expanding the existing 14 weapons with new moves and combat options. Some of those weapon changes will also be available to all Wilds players through free updates.

For crypto founders, the biggest lesson from @fomo and @Pumpfun ascendance is that the distribution model of the last 5 years for apps is moot. Web3 is dead, wallet connect is dead, dApps are dead. The new plan is vertically integrated mobile: hide the crypto mechanics entirely. Single balance across chains, integrated onramp (Apple Pay is king), no bridges, no seed phrases or private keys (sign in with Google or X). For wallet apps themselves, this presents an existential crisis. The user demands simplicity & the feeling of safety. In the past, your wallet was a gateway to crypto. Now, I hold a deposit in each app I use and I don't yet care if they talk to each other. As always, we go through bundling and unbundling cycles. If Phantom and Jupiter and Metamask were bundling, we are now seeing a great unbundling.

Check out my new essay "Safety First". Trump has a choice, print or print. "Did you hear that? The AI bros suddenly developed a conscience and are worried about humanity’s survival in the face of their almost silicon-God’s ascendance. It’s been almost silicon-God for some time now, but suddenly it’s almost almost silicon-God and therefore it’s time for introspection as to the path forward for the development of AGI.[1] That’s the narrative, but cynical me looked at the calendar and thought, it’s almost the close of the third quarter and Anthropic hasn’t IPO’d yet. I wonder how those financials look? Is that hockey stick growth of annualized revenue they allude to in press release after press release slowing down? They decree they are profitable if they remove all business running costs. I can’t wait to parse through to be released their S-1 and understand exactly how much it costs for them to serve a token to a customer. And while they are being so honest with everyone, just exactly how many customers are profitable, and is that cohort increasing or decreasing? But alas, I will not get answers to my questions because “Safety First”. As readers can tell from my tone, I believe that Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX’s pronouncement that Safety First guides them to slow down development of AGI is not driven by any concern for the wellbeing of unenlightened humans, but by the economic reality that the market doesn’t want enough of the AI they are selling at its current price. To be specific, the market loves AI, but at the China price, which is 1/100th as expensive." Read more on my cryptohayes Substack

WNBA attendance reached another record in 2026, and the league may still have considerable room to grow. Atlanta’s attendance jumped after moving select games into State Farm Arena. Next year, the Dream are moving there full time. MORE: