Well, as this year passes by and a new one comes around, we all get our hearts warmed up and ready to be..err...better peopleXD

Today's the 25th, so in behalf of me and the officers of the LV5U I wish everyone in the union Merry Christmas.

Well..it might not be much but, here are some gifts :

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http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3172058

Happy Holidays Everybody!!!

Here's the list (Follow the LINK to view their description) :

1 Platinum
8 Gold
7 Silver
8 Bronze

Source : http://www.ps3trophies.co.uk//showthread.php?t=12217

Plus: There are a lot of game studios that work exclusively for Sony, while they aren't property of Sony. Some examples are Naughty Dog, Insomniac and Sucker Punch. Today a rumour emerged saying that Level 5 will also work exclusively for Sony. Click on read more for the full story

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Professor Layton The First Movie, the animated film that was announced just prior to the Tokyo Game Show, is scheduled for a New Years 2010 release in Japan, Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino revealed. The Japanese version of the film will feature the same voice cast as the game, with Yo Oizumi as Layton and Maki Horikita as Ruke."

Source : Clicky

The Japanese version of the WKC official cover-art has been revealed

Clicky for Original Size : http://www.cng4u.com/2008/11/18/white-knight-story-box-art/

This is a quick video-tour on Level5 and a video about White Knight Chronicles (In Japanese).

Source :  http://www.gametrailers.com/player/42481.html

Special thanks to Carnikoid85 for finding the news

Quest number IX gets under way March of 2009 in Japan.

Follow the LINK to see the new DQ9 trailer

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41760.html

Level-5's Tokyo Game Show booth featured a Closed Theater presentation (much like their competitor, Square Enix). However they were open to the public, so Joystiq was able to bring us the trailers for Ushiro, Danbol Senki, Ni No Kuni and more.

Follow the link to view the new gamplay-videos :

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/09/tgs-08-level-5-video-roundup/

Joystiq : " Valve has done pretty well for itself with its digital distribution service Steam and it seems other companies want in on the easy money to be had. Take software developers Level-5 (Rogue Galaxy, Professor Layton) for example who'll be pumping out their own digital downloads with a little something called ROID. Level-5's ROID service targets both PC and Mobile gaming and will launch for Japan in April 2009."

Source : Clicky

Special thanks to Carnikoid85 for finding the news

Some new details about White Knight Chronicles have emerged, courtesy of Japanese gaming site Game-Star! Here's the jist of the article:

-Story should last 100 hours +
-Graphics will be at 1080P
-Dynamic battle system, allowing you to chose from the regular sized characters or transforming into the colossal white knight.
-Co-op gameplay over the PSN

With TGS right around the bend, expect a lot more from Level-5 on this Sony exclusive RPG. Check out the full Japanese article here

EDIT: I added a recently released pic also

Danboru Senki (PSP)

Ushiro (PSP)

Here's the official list revealed by Famitsu :

• Ninokuni: The Another World (Nintendo DS, with an port to an unspecified console also planned) is an RPG starring a 13-year-old boy who's invited into a magical fantasy land by a spirit, a world eerily close to Earth that's under the rule of a dark sorcerer. There he hopes to deal with the issues that haunt his life, not the least of which being that he was responsible for his mother's passing not long ago. This project is no doubt the biggest announcement of the day, mainly thanks to one small detail: Studio Ghibli, Japan's most famous animation studio, is working on Ninokuni's animated sequences, the first time the company has ever provided original work for a video game.

• Danboru Senki (PSP) is a build-and-fight RPG with more than a passing resemblance to Nintendo's Custom Robo series. In the game world, people build and customize small battle robots called LBXes, then duke it out with friends in special miniature battlefields made from cardboard reinforced to weather combat damage (the game's title literally means "Cardboard War Machines" in Japanese). You'll take up the role of a new hobbyist in the field, searching for rare parts and trying to become the best robo-fighter in town.

• Inazuma Eleven 2 (Nintendo DS) is the sequel to the Level-5-produced soccer RPG that just came out in Japan last month. Once again, you'll be leading a middle-school soccer team as they try to save the world from a new, alien soccer menace. Seriously. As before, it's equal parts JRPG exploration and fast-action soccer sim.

• Professor Layton and The Last Time Travel (Nintendo DS) is the third game in the Layton series, one with the usual full new set of puzzles and characters. The Professor receives a strange letter one day claiming to be from his assistant Luke ten years in the future. Tracking its source down leads to a scientist creating a new, working time machine, one that sadly goes haywire and throws the Prime Minister of England and his wife into some unknown spot in time-space. Can Layton rearrange matchsticks and stuff quickly enough to save them?

• Ushiro (PSP) is a first for Level-5 -- a horror RPG. You play Reiichiro Ushiro, a newly-minted shinigami spirit who has the power to give people near the brink of death a single wish in exchange for their lives. Whether listening in on conversations in spirit mode, possessing the living to do your bidding, or fighting personifications of the evil in man's heart, you can be sure that being a not-so-friendly ghost is nothing if not hectic.

All of these games are due out 2009 in Japan with the exception of Layton, which hits Japanese stores November 27.

Source : http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3170124

One of the most talented Japanese developers, Level-5 (White Knight Story, Dragon Quest IX : Protectors of the Starry Sky), has announced in the latest Famitsu magazine that a press conference named Level-5 Vision 2008 will take place in Japan on September 26. Level-5 wrote "A game revolution is beginning […] Wait for shocking announcements from Level-5!" as a slogan on the advertisement page. September 26 will be a very hot day for great announcements (7th Dragon (?), Kizuna, Arc Rise Fantasia, etc.).

Source : Clicky

The latest issue of Famitsu magazine contains a release date for Level 5's Sony Computer Entertainment-published White Knight Chronicles for the PLAYSTATION 3. The release date for White Knight Chronicles in Japan is December 11th, 2008 for the price of ¥6980!!

Source : Clicky

Nintendo announced today that its Professor Layton and the Curious Village for Nintendo DS will hit stores on November 7, 2008 in Europe. The game is already available in the United States and Japan.

Source : Clicky

Sony Japan has confirmed that White Knight Chronicles will be present at the Tokyo Game Show, to be held between September 10-12.

SOURCE : Clicky

PSbeyond says: "During Sony's recent presentation in japan in which showed the first images of the PSN video store, they also have confirmed that upcoming JRPG White Knight Story (known as shirokishi monogatari in Japan) will be released during FY08. This means it will be released at anytime from now to March 31st 2009. With the release date in the not too distant future expect more information on White Knight Story during E3 or Tokyo Game Show."

SOURCE: Clicky