Level-5, the development house responsible for Professor Layton, will announce three new projects on August 25.
At an event in Tokyo called Level-5 Vision 2009, the publisher will give new details on six new projects in development for the Japanese market, and lift the veil from three new ones. The projects that we know of are:
- The Another World, the Nintendo DS RPG that the publisher is creating in partnership with Studio Ghibli for release in 2009,
- Professor Layton and the Devil's Flute, the fourth game in the series slated for a fall release in Japan,
- Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva, the animated movie that hits Japanese theaters during New Year's 2010,
- Inazuma Eleven 2, sequel to the company's soccer RPG, coming in October,
- Cardboard Senki, PSP build-your-own robot RPG also coming this year, and
- ROID, the company's digital distribution platform.
All of these projects are currently only scheduled to be released in Japan, although Level-5 has said in a general sense that it wants every Layton game to be released in the U.S.
Level-5 is seriously cranking out games, these days, when you consider that in addition to their substantial release slate as a publisher, they were also the development team behind Dragon Quest IX, which just moved 2.3 million copies in its first two days on sale in Japan, making it the territory's fastest-selling game ever by some estimates.
I'm looking forward to what they might announce for 2010 at this year's summit. Sure, there's the obvious "another Layton game," but their ambitions seem to stretch far beyond that.
