There’s been a flood of reviews, previews and impressions around the Internet from the all the media sources we invited to our Gamer’s Day last week. Click on Read More to peruse a collection of some of the initial articles.

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Capcom is pleased to announce that Monster Hunter Freedom 2 for the PSP (PlayStation Portable) system (referred to below as the PSP system) has shipped more than 1 million units in Japan. The second installment has managed to outperform even the popular first game to reach one million shortly after release. With the release of the Best Edition of the first Monster Hunter Freedom, the first game is also expected to exceed one million in the near future. Combined, these two titles make the Monster Hunter Freedom series the strongest game series on the PSP system in Japan as of March 6th, 2007.

The popular Monster Hunter series of action games puts the player in the role of a fearless hunter roaming the great outdoors tracking down gigantic beasts. Players can tackle the adventure alone or join friends over a network for team cooperative action. Since the first Monster Hunter’s console release in March 2004, it cumulatively shipped over 3,7 million copies around the world as of March 6th, 2007, and has been honored with numerous awards, securing a place as one of Capcom’s premier titles.

Capcom has been working closely with Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. in order to expand sales of the popular series. One result is the special Monster Hunter PSP system bundle which includes a special color edition PSP system, the game Monster Hunter Freedom 2, and other original goods. This and other promotional efforts have helped to spur sales. In addition to console versions, a pre-installed mobile phone game and trading cards are planned at the beginning of April as part of Capcom’s one content, multi-use business strategy.

Capcom will continue to strive to develop new and original games that appeal to a broad audience around the globe.

Calling all Monster Hunters!

Wanted: The elusive beast known as the Monster Hunter Banner that has been missing from these Unity pages since the beginning of time.

Reward: Fame, promotion to HR48750475, and possible fortune in the form of random loot that may be dropped by THE Seth.

Owing to their observation skills honed by hours of dedicated monster hunting, some of our fans pointed out that we somehow forgot to include a Monster Hunter banner here on our Unity site. Help us right this wrong by creating a Monster Hunter banner to fill the gap!

The size of the banner should be 260×44 and wed like to have them submitted by 6pm on March 16th, 2007. It will then be put to a vote by your fellow hunters and the top vote getter may be used as the official Monster Hunter banner on the Unity homepage!

Please post your submissions here in the forums.

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Gaming site Kotaku is reporting that preliminary numbers indicate Monster Hunter Portable 2nd for the PSP sold over 500,000 copies in Japan on the first day alone. See more by clicking on the link.

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While the numbers aren’t in yet, the release of Monster Hunter Portable 2nd in Japan had gamers forming long lines in order to get their hands on the game.

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