Update: Europe also gets it on the same day. Original story below:

D3 Publisher just announced the release date for EDF 5 on PS4 in North America.

The highly anticipated bug killing follow up to the lovely Earth Defense Force 4.1 hits PS4 in North America this December. The localisation was leaked via a PSN store listing that also had Deluxe Edition details. Unlike the last few entries that were published by XSEED in North America and PQube in Europe, EDF 5 is being published by D3 themselves in North America at least. Watch the English trailer for EDF 5 below:

Earth Defense Force 5 released in Japan last year and it hits PS4 in North America and Europe on December 11.