Despite being the most-hyped thing at Gamescom last year, topping Steam wishlists and raking in nearly 1.4 million concurrent players shortly after launch, Monster Hunter Wilds is struggling to pull in the sales even compared to its four-year-old predecessor.

As reported by Eurogamer, Capcom published its most recent financial report earlier this week covering the first half of the fiscal year—from around the start of April 'til the end of September.

Taking a gander over some of the developer's big sellers for that time period, Monster Hunter Wilds is barely clinging onto the top 10 list, sitting right at the bottom with 637,000 units sold. That's still not bad, mind, but perhaps surprising when framed alongside other games like previous entry Monster Hunter Rise, shifting a skosh more copies at 643,000 units.

I am surprised to see Rise beating out Wilds, but not entirely shocked to see the latter struggling behind the rest of Capcom's big hitters. The game continues to sit at a Mixed rating on Steam, thanks in large part to its downright atrocious optimisation (which only feels a hair better eight months after release) which has even left folks with fairly beefy rigs struggling to hunt at a decent framerate.

There's also the ongoing matter of the game's difficulty. Outside of optimisation, one of the biggest criticisms Wilds faced at launch was that folks thought it was simply just too darn easy. Now in the wake of the Final Fantasy 14 collaboration and the brutally difficult Omega Planetes fight, the tables have turned a little too rapidly. A softer difficulty curve certainly would have been nice, I have to agree there.

Those two things (and, you know, the classic post-launch, pre-inevitable-expansion lull) will have certainly contributed to Wilds not selling as highly as some other games on this list. For comparison, Street Fighter 6, which cgame out two years ago, managed to shift an extra one million copies in the first half of the financial year.

Perhaps the most surprising one here, though, is Devil May Cry topping the sales ranking with over two million units sold, tipping the lifetime sales over the 10 million mark. The report notes that the figures also include the Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition—a slightly souped-up rerelease of the original—but considering that came out almost five years ago, it's interesting to see its popularity here.

Less surprisingly are the sales of Resident Evil games. RE: Village sold 1.5 million copies in the first half of the fiscal year, followed by Resident Evil 4 and 7. Resident Evil 2 came in just below Street Fighter 6, with the third game outselling both Monster Hunters by a smidge.

It's still worth noting that, ultimately, Monster Hunter Wilds is still sitting on over 10 million lifetime sales. That's not quite at Rise's 17 million yet, nor is it the near-30 million Capcom reported for Monster Hunter: World at the beginning of the year. But I've no doubt that a big optimisation overhaul—perhaps strategically positioned in the run-up to whatever Wilds' big expansion is going to be—will give the game a good ol' bump in the future.

Loot is almost always plentiful in Arc Raiders—except, it seems, when you need to find something specific. The first few missions will have you looking for a battery and some wires, two items that I've seen plenty of during my preview and the beta test. But somehow, as soon as I needed them, they decided to disappear from every drawer and cupboard.

There are certain spots scattered across each Arc Raiders map where you're more likely to find technological or electrical items like wires and batteries, and chances are, if you search a computer, you'll find what you need. But this isn't always guaranteed, and sometimes you'll raid rooms that have already been sorted through and stripped of valuables.

This happened to me during my first few games in Arc Raiders. I was on the lookout for six wires, but no matter where I searched or what I scrapped, I just couldn't seem to find anything. This is when PC Gamer guides writer Rory Norris and I hatched an ingenious idea.

I had a battery that he needed, and he had the wires I needed, so we decided to exchange goods. Now there's no way you can do this in the menu, so we had to jump into a game with all the supplies in hand. Once we landed in Dam Battlegrounds, we dropped all our materials on the floor, looked around for a little more loot and then extracted, heading back to Speranza to tick off our missions.

The beauty is that once you complete most missions, you get to keep the loot they ask for. So if a friend is struggling to find the right kind of resources, you can hand them over and trade back later—or be a true pal and let them keep the goods. It may seem like a small thing, but being able to help friends like this even without a built-in trading system is a really great feature, and one that makes Arc Raiders feel like more of a collaborative project than a solo game you happen to be playing alongside friends.

But Arc Raiders has more than just this little bonus for friends. When you're in a squad, anything your teammates do can count towards your mission objectives also. That could be killing Arc robots, looting a downed player, or searching item containers. I'm sure players will find more ways to help their squad as time goes on, but right from the jump this kind of teamwork makes Arc Raiders less of a chore and works towards its growing status as the kinder extraction shooter.

It may seem like a long way away, but Resident Evil Requiem's launch date is creeping up on us: 120 days and counting. Some fans are already getting ahead by opting for preordering the game well in advance.

Now I will say that preorders are generally shunned over here at PC Gamer, as you never quite know what you're opting into, so oftentimes it's better to wait and see if the finished product actually lives up to the hype. I haven't preordered a game since 2013—Call of Duty: Ghosts really scarred me.

But for those who like to take a risk or are 100% certain that they'll love Resident Evil Requiem, there'll be more waiting for you than just the game. As part of a preorder bonus on the Epic Games Store, players will be able to get Grace Ashcroft's bonus DLC costume: Apocalypse and her outfit in Fortnite when it comes to the battle royale game in March next year.

"The return to Raccoon City will come in two versions on the Epic Games Store, with both Standard and Deluxe editions," an official blog post reads. "Standard is the base game, while the Deluxe edition of Resident Evil Requiem includes the game plus an exclusive pack of five costumes, four weapon skins, two screen filters, two weapon charms, and more."

There are so many wild characters in Fortnite (I'm looking at you, REPO) that this crossover isn't exactly surprising. Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield are also already skins that you can purchase as part of the Raccoon City Survivors Set. And while Grace is a great addition to this, I'd really like to see Ethan Winters or Ada Wong added, also—I think they both deserve it.

When it comes to seeing your DLC skins in Requiem, you'd have to really play in third-person if you want to make the purchase worth it, as you wouldn't be able to see much of your outfit in first-person. Luckily, third-person is the less scary option (the one I'll be picking), so at the very least, it won't force players to go too far out of their comfort zone.