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Amazon lists Professor Layton 2 for August

May 23rd, 2009 by Majed Athab
If you’re the type that’s inclined to believe retailer release dates, then take a look at what Amazon says about Professor Layton’s second outing, The Diabolical Box. The online retailer has the game pegged down for August 24, which is just three months away.

This is a good thing, considering that, for the longest time, we’ve been feeling like young Luke there, glazed over and stunned, staring into that half-opened glowing box of doom. Just what new adventures lay ahead? It looks like we’ll find out soon enough.

[Via GoNintendo]

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Level-5’s Layton-esque ‘Sloane and MacHale’s Mysterious Story’ launches this week in Japan

May 18th, 2009 by JC Fletcher

Last year, in the midst of a pile of news from Level-5, the company quietly announced three DS puzzle games called the Atamania series. The first game in that series comes out on May 21 in Japan, and it looks like something worth getting excited about!

Sloane and MacHale’s Mysterious Story is, like Level-5’s Professor Layton series, a collection of brain teasers wrapped up in an overarching mystery tale. The puzzle content in this game consists of lateral thinking puzzles from Paul Sloane and Des MacHale, presented as both animated scenarios (in a very cool silhouette style) and text. The puzzles seem to involve moving the text of the puzzle around with the stylus to make connections.

Of course, Level-5 has yet to say anything about localization on Mysterious Story. We’d say it’s an obvious choice given the success of Professor Layton, but we have yet to see any of the Layton sequels!

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