Today Capcom decided to give in to all the leaks and officially announces Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, for release on the PlayStation Portable toward the end of this year in Japan. A trailer, along with screen shots of the game, was shown off at a press event in Tokyo, and it looks mighty impressive. I have to say, one of the things that turned me off about the last portable Monster Hunter was the control scheme, so let's hope that is something that will be either changed, or made customizable in upcoming iterations. Hit the jump to check out the screens and the first trailer for the game.

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