Monster Hunter Illustrations release date announced

The MH Illustrations are being localized by Udon Entertainment. It's release date has finally been set for August 2011! If this book does well, and generates enough interest, hopefully there'll be more books to be localized for us Monster Hunter fans!

What's notable is that even though this book (304 pages) can be originally found in a 2 book set in Japanese, this book has a lot of designer notes which give insight into their development of the Monster Hunter games pre-Tri and 3rd. I have this book set myself in Japanese, but I'll be picking this up in English.

Sourced from and more preview images here:
http://www.capcom-unity.com/snow_infernus/blog/2011/06/30/monster_hunter_illustrations_art_book_releasing_in_august

Buy at Amazon.com! It's only 25 USD!

Monster Hunter Portable 3rd in the US?

3rd has been for awhile a well disputed game as to whether it'll actually be released in the West; the Americas including Europe. There've been rumors, or slight leaks giving indication to it actually happening. There seem to be some people that say that it'll never happen and that Monster Hunter fans in the West should just stop asking period because Japan literally hates us (I'm in Canada).

Who knows.

However, vice president of strategic planning and business development over at Capcom US; Christian Svensson, has made a pretty forward statement about the status of 3rd or Monster Hunter in general, coming over to the Americas.



This IS somewhat old as it came from the live stream at E3 2011, but I only found out about this part of the interview a week or two ago. I hadn't the chance to post it here yet. This video has appeared on several Monster Hunter forums though. Strange that not enough people know about it.

More "clues" to come.