Fellow Hunters! Rejoic! Monster Hunter Portable 3rd is here!

* Weapons are GS, tachi, hammer, SnS, twin blades, gunlance, hunting horn, lance, bow, slash axe, light bow and heavy bow, as reported. All of 'em!

* Infrastructure is in.

* It definitely isn't Tri.

* Village is called Yukumo.

* Village chief is a beautiful, middle-aged woman (or "cougar")

* Recepcionist is very cute - so what's new?

* Mixed sex hot spring

* Lots of very oriental touches

* Includes the gorge area from MHF.

* Monsters are Lightening Wolf Dragon Jinouga, Aoashira, Gaava

* No underwater.

* Many things that are totally new to 3rd.

* Monsters from Tri will also appear.

* Weapons have been considerably changed.

* Not as many quests as P2G, but more than P2.

* Armor uses the skill points system.

* You take 2 cats with you.

* You can customize cat armor.

* Cat weapons can be cut or hit damage.

* A new communication element is added to deepen multiplay. Still a secret for now.

* You can use Kanji and other Japanese alphabets for character names (until now they were only in English even in the Japanese games)

* No carry over from P2G.

* All of the "promises" that a MHP game must keep, will be kept.

* P2 is not the base of the game, much of it has been totally remade.

* Monster movements and graphics have been greatly improved - images of the village, forest and volcano do look quite a bit nicer than P2.

* They want you to be thinking - "Can they really have this many monsters moving with this quality of graphics? And you can do this too...?!"

* Q - Does it feel like Tri to play? A - It isn't P2G or Tri, but something new.

* Cat Village is out in August.