Monster Hunter Wilds' first expansion, Ascendance, has finally been revealed. In a trailer at Summer Games Fest 2026, Capcom unveiled the future of the game with a massive new expansion called Ascendance.

If you're a Monster Hunter veteran, you'll know that Monster Hunter games are defined by their expansions; in recent memory, we have both Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak, and Monster Hunter World Iceborne, which both added huge content updates to each game. I imagine Ascendance will do the same for Wilds.

Despite some missteps along the way and those sadly quite-impactful performance woes, Monster Hunter Wilds has always been a pretty good time. We knew we were going to get this game this summer after an update from the dev team back in February where producer Ryozo Tsujimoto unveiled a "large-scale expansion" was planned to shake things up.

At the end of 2025, we learned that the game's free content updates were ending (in the short term; it was always obvious that DLC was on the way). After providing promised performance improvements, a major patch coming 18th February added bunch of 10-star Arch-tempered monsters to slay in permanent event quests, new weapon and pendant designs from a design contest held a while back, and a Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection collaboration. Not bad to keep us all occupied, right?