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Level-5 has just revealed a brand new Professor Layton game that will be hitting the iOS operating system. However, the professor himself will be absent. More »

Level 5 CEO Akihiro Hino and Capcom Director Shuu Takumi had the chance to talk in detail about bringing Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright together for their crossover title at Tokyo Game Show 2011 giving some insight into the development of the universe-bending puzzler.

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Professor Layton and the Last Specter comes out in North America on October 17 and Europe on November 21. To get you just as excited about it as I am, Wired has an exclusive video for the title, which give you an idea just who this gentle, top hat wearing gentleman with a penchant for puzzles is and how he came to be. Sort of. Just watch and enjoy.

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Andriasang has translated a number of comments made by Japanese developers on the potential of Wii U.
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Level-5 has announced a new Professor Layton game which is a cross between the popular puzzler and Mobage’s Kaito Royale series.

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Level 5 has announced that the Professor Layton series has shipped 12 million units worldwide since its inception in 2007. Four titles in the series have launched on DS, with a fifth – The Mask of Miracle – appearing on 3DS. A sixth game is in development, according to Level 5 boss Akihiro Hino.

Thanks, Andriasang.

Level 5 boss Akihiro Hino has confirmed in a tweet that the first Professor Layton title, The Curious Village, has sold 1 million units in Japan since its launch in 2007 for DS. The series has now shipped 11 million units worldwide. Three more titles in the series launched on DS, with the fifth in the series, The Mask of Miracle, appearing on 3DS. Hino also confirmed a sixth title was in development, but didn’t state which platform it was for.

Thanks, Andriasang.

Level-5 held a completion ceremony for Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask in Japan this week, and you can watch what happened below.

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Level-5 has announced the Professor Layton series has moved 11.47 million units worldwide.

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Capcom’s detailed series sales numbers for Professor Layton and Ace Attorney following yesterday’s announcement of the two series’ coming together for a 3DS title.

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Level 5 announced at its Vision event earlier today a Professor Layton-Ace Attorney crossover, the first fruits of its previously confirmed collabortion with Capcom.

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Nintendo has released a new trailer for Level-5’s Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.

It’s posted below.

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Nintendo’s sent word it’s moved the US release date of Level-5′s Professor Layton and the Unwound Future up by a week.

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Level 5′s fifth Professor Layton game has been announced as a 3DS title.

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Level 5 has registered a trademark for Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.

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According to ANN, the first Professor Layton anime movie, released in Japan last year, will get a DVD and Blu-ray release in September for the west.

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Level-5 has announced that a new Professor Layton game is in the works and it’s called The Mask of Miracles.

It’s due next fall in Japan, and is part two in the latest trilogy, following the events in The Specter’s Flute which took place three years before The Curious Village.

While this is great news for Layton aficionados, all it does is make us a very sad panda because the second game was just released this year outside of Japan.

Come on with it.

Via 1UP.

Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino has told Official Nintendo Magazine that the firm has no plans to release Professor Layton on Wii, despite the success of the franchise.

“This trilogy comes to a conclusion with Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel, but we will be releasing the first title of the new trilogy, Professor Layton and the Flute of Malevolent Destiny in Japan,” he said.

“We currently have no plans for a Wii release.”

As long as there’s more for DS, fans of the series will be happy, we reckon.

Thanks, CVG.

Level 5 president and CEO, Akihiro Hino, has explained to Wired why it takes so long for Professor Layton games to make it outside of Japan.

Not only do puzzle differences with Japanese linguistics or customs need to be substituted, but some graphical elements need a bit of tweaking as well.

“Like any game localization, it takes time and manpower to update a Professor Layton title, especially the puzzles and any graphical elements that need adjustment,” said Hino. “We all try to carefully manage this process so that there is not such a long gap between releases.

“Of course, we also want to let each title have time to perform on the market before releasing the next game.

There ya go.

Thanks, GoNintendo.

Level-5 has revealed during its Vision Conference that Professor Layton and the Devil’s Flute will contain a bonus game created by Brownie Brown called London Life.

The fourth game in the series is set to be released in Japan on November 26, and the extra bit of fun is more RPG based, and revolves around making people happy.

It was announced for the cell-phone download service ROID, but surely Level-5 will reveal soon that it’s for the DS version as well. Hopefully at least by the time it leaves Japan anyway.

The event was live blogged by both Andriasang and 1UP, and snapshots of the London Life content are posted over on Aussie Nintendo.

Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box landed on US shores yesterday.