A scant few days after its announcement, Professor Layton and the Curious Village EXHD has received a trailer and it looks great. While the game perfectly mimics the Nintendo DS' dual screen setup on larger displays, I'm mostly in awe of th...
The Professor Layton series is no stranger to mobile devices, so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the first game in the series is now getting ported to smartphones. Dubbed Professor Layton and the Curious Village EXHD, this port...
Wayo Records have announced that they will be releasing the official soundtrack to whimsical RPG Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom, which launches earlier this year courtesy of Bandai Namco.The release will feature over 30 tracks from the Lev...
As written in the latest issue of Japanese publication Famitsu, Level-5's 3DS adventure Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy is coming to the Nintendo Switch in Japan on August 9.Originally launching for 3DS ...
Is Betty feeling sassy? Sympathetic? Impatient? Chances are there's a response that conveys whatever emotion you're looking for. There were only...
Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino is one of the most open studio leads out there, and recently he spoke to Nikkei Trendy to sort of lay out his company's plans for the rest of the year and going forward. First off, Hino plainly states: "Basically, i...
Well this one was a head-scratcher at first. Speaking to Dengeki PlayStation, Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino explained the creative process behind Ni No Kuni II a bit, noting that it was a western game first and foremost, despite the fa...
I vividly remember reading magazine previews for Level-5's True Fantasy Live Online, Level-5's ambitious Xbox MMO that was canceled in 2004. I even had a crew ready and waiting with our party planned out, but it just never came to be, and I...
Ni No Kuni II is a charming RPG where the president of some great human nation gets blown up by a missile and transported to a magical world of talking rats and half-cat kings, armed only with a bitchin' ponytail and a handgun. On paper, it...
On February 26, the Nintendo 3DS will celebrate its seventh year on the market. In that time, it has sold more than 70 million units worldwide and more than 340 million games. It’s been home to the great franchises we grew up with lik...
Level-5, the company known for hits like Professor Layton and Yo-Kai Watch, is turning 20 next year. In October of 2018 to be exact, and its CEO, Akihiro Hino has something planned to celebrate. While we're not exactly sure what that is, he...
Bandai Namco have recently announced that RPG sequel Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom will miss its intended January launch date. This is the second delay to hit the Level-5 anime adventure.Ni no Kuni II was initially expected to launch in N...
Inazuma Eleven: Ares, the reboot a the series that has had a huge presence in Japan and Europe but barely made a scratch in North America, has been teased for a few months now with the only thing known about it is it's a reboot and it's com...
The Professor Layton series is pretty god damned awesome and has always contained an anime style for it's animation. It was one of the first DS games to have full motion video that didn't look like absolute garbage and even resembled Studio...
Level-5 has been quiet stateside in 2017. Earlier this year we got Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy on mobile and it will launch on the 3DS in North America next week. Other than the recent rele...
Boy, I sure found some pretty images didn't I? I wish I played those Spirited Away-looking sections, but I guess you don't show your best hand in preview demos. Or wait, shouldn't you? In any case, Ni No Kuni II looks every bit as bea...
Final Fantasy XIV is no stranger to crossovers with Level-5 properties. In fact, the MMO's Yo-kai Watch event recently came back giving players a second chance at nabbing some Yokai companions and inspired weapons. It looks like players wil...
It's special edition time, and yep they found enough stuff to cram in a box to throw a $200 price tag on, dioramas, art books, plushies, music CD's and making of DVD's. There is some overlap between the Collector and Premium Editions coming...
The Professor Layton franchise is probably my favorite thing to come out of the Nintendo DS era. A well-written, wonderfully animated adventure game with puzzles that truly tested my logic skills was just what I needed after years of more m...
Layton’s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires’ Conspiracy, which for the sake of brevity will be referred to as Layton’s Mystery Journey for the rest of this review in progress, begins with a changing of the gua...
Sitting nice and neatly in a row on my big-ass shelf of games is every entry in the Professor Layton franchise. From The Curious Village to the Azran Legacy, they sit there, waiting to be joined by Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrie...
To help promote the upcoming Layton’s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and The Millionaires’ Conspiracy for 3DS, Level-5 teamed up with SCRAP (real escape games) to make a "puzzle-solving event that challenges users around...
Inafune just got a life preserve. It's no secret that the once on-top Mega Man producer (and father of the character, not creator) has been struggling with the studio he founded in 2010, Comcept. Mighty No. 9 failed to meet basically anyone...
Lots of information has trickled out slowly over the last couple of years since Ni No Kuni II: The Revenant Kingdom was announced, but the last piece of the puzzle was an exact release date. Now we know that it will be out in time for ...
Level 5 CEO Akihiro Hino stated "although I can't reveal the content, we're making game(s) for [the Nintendo Switch]" in a Nikkei Trendy Interview. Japanese language does not differentiate nouns by plurality or singularity, so it's not clea...
[Update: It's set for a worldwide release on July 20 as "Layton’s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and The Millionaire’s Conspiracy."] Level-5 hung up Layton's hat for a bit, but for a series that sold nearly 16 million copies over it...
The Supreme Court has ruled that states can now force online retailers to charge sales tax no matter where a company is This will mean billions of tax revenue for states and online shopping just got more It really doesnt bother
My girl has finally given me the A-Okay to play games with a party and ignore her! So hit me up on Xbox! I Siege, and single player Tried to get a party in Siege, its all 13 year olds yelling Please play with
I did my first cblog recap Check it out
I asked her She said she was seeing someone, and the whole time leading up to it was incredibly nerve wracking, but actually asking was super I was so scared of this for nothing, so at least I learned
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I want Star Wars Episode IX to be a musical, because the collective fanbase losing their shit all at once might actually bring people together for
#Confessiontoid I really like Fire Emblem Also Im going to Korea and didnt tell you
#ConfessionToid I dont know what over half the damn games or anime characters are that you people talk about, but I still love it Tolerate me, please!
Next design article will be up on Destructoid in a few All I can say at this point is that it (unsurprisingly) got the Featured badge on Not too shabby!
Reflecting on Gems of War, Im starting to think a reason I get addicted to progress-driven F2P games is the intertwining of power fantasy fulfillment with power creep? Not quite good game design, but one thing making the other feel better? Thoughts?
