Monster Hunter World has become the best-selling game in Capcom's 38-year history - beating every Resident Evil, Mega Man, Dead Rising and Street Fighter (sorry Wes).

Capcom announced this morning it had now shipped 7.5m copies of its beastie bashing role-player - a figure that tots up physical units sold to retailers as well as digital downloads.

World launched at the end of January for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, meaning it has reached this sales milestone in just five weeks.

The game's PC version is still to launch, too. It has an "autumn 2018" release window.

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Monster Hunter has been around since the days of PlayStation 2 but has, until now at least, mainly found its success in Japan. The aptly-titled World, however, appears to have bucked that trend.

Franchise sales now stand at 48m copies. Could it break 50m this year when World launches on PC? It seems likely.