Monster Hunter Wilds' all-important expansion has finally been revealed. It's called Ascendance, and it's launching next year.

As the name implies, the "massive" DLC will be taking your hunter to the skies, as you battle across what appears to be a realm of floating islands. Ambitious stuff.

There'll also be new gameplay mechanics, as you can see in the above trailer. It's difficult to call exactly what's going on, but we glimpse examples of fresh combat equipment, like an exhaust gauntlet that seems to empower your attacks.

We'll no doubt be seeing much more of Ascendance over the coming weeks and months. Capcom loves showing this stuff off in big gameplay deep dives.

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