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Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino tweeted about Inazuma Eleven Heroes Great Road on March 18, sharing a new development update on one of the most delayed games of the past ten years. 長らくお待たせしてしまっているイナズマイレブン英雄たちのグレートロードですが、お察しの通り、エンジンなどの切り替えもあり、開発は難航している状態です。4月までには、いつなのか、どういう形で出すのかなどの方針を発表できればと思っています。絵は未発表のものです。もうしばらくお待ちを。 pic.twitter.com/SSjZSkTVSX — 日野晃博 (@AkihiroHino) March 18, 2020 Here’s a quick translation: Akihiro Hino: “I know you’ve been waiting for Inazuma Eleven Eiyuu Tachi
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Valentine Day 2020 happened and as usual when such events rolls around, Japanese games studios, artists, character designers and developers all shared some Valentine-themed artwork on Twitter. Mobile and gacha games all do their own events too, revealing new illustrations for their characters. In Japan, Valentine Day is about women giving presents to men, with
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Level-5 renewed the official site for Inazuma Eleven: Heroes Great Road, revealing a new key visual showing multiple characters appearing in the game. However, the official site only mentions Inazuma Eleven: Heroes Great Road is coming in 2020 on PS4, Switch, iOS, and Android. Rather than a “Spring 2020” release like Level-5 previously announced, only
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Level-5 published a brand new trailer for Megaton Musashi ahead of Jump Festa 2020. The trailer goes over what we know about the game’s story. It’s set in the future where the earth was colonized by bad aliens called the Dractor. The survivors fled to underground shelters, and fight against the aliens using “Megaton-Class” mechas,
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First released for iOS and Android back in 2017 with a Nintendo 3DS release several months later, Layton’s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires’ Conspiracy was a return of Level-5’s once popular puzzle franchise. The change in protagonist from Professor Hershel Layton to his daughter Detective Katrielle Layton breathes new life into the series —
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Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom is nearly one year old at this point, but Level-5 and Bandai Namco Entertainment still aren’t done releasing content for the game just yet. Today, it was announced that the next piece of DLC for Ni No Kuni II entitled The Tale of a Timeless Tome will be launching next month on March
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Level-5’s Yo-kai Watch series has always featured a wonderful sense of humor, but I was caught off guard with the role-playing game starting off with an extended parody of Chris Carter’s magnum opus, The X-Files. Cheekily called “The Y Files,” players get to see cartoon versions of Mulder and Scully (now called Blunder and Folly) bicker about
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During a 15 minutes live stream held today, Level-5’s President Akihiro Hino personally addressed Inazuma Eleven fans, explaining the multiple delays Inazuma Eleven: Ares no Tenbin has suffered from. Hino-san started by explaining how Inazuma Eleven Ares no Tenbin‘s game and anime projects were born. It was in order to release them a bit before the 2018 Football World Cup
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This week’s issue of Weekly Famitsu has a feature on Leve-5, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the company. In a very long interview, President Akihiro Hino shared many details about his history in game development and the history of his own company. Most notably, Hino-san talked about Ushiro, the canceled RPG for PSP and mobile which is coming
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Developer Level-5 has released some new gameplay footage as well as a trailer of their upcoming Nintendo Switch title, Yo-kai Watch 4. The content was originally only seen by those who attended 2018’s Tokyo Game Show. Now, it’s available to all, and you can check it out for yourself down below. Yesterday, Level-5 announced that they’d be
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Today Bandai Namco Entertainment released the “Adventure Pack” free DLC for Level-5’s popular JRPG Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom.  The package includes additional floors for the Faraway Forest Cave, two new bosses (Blackhart and Zeta), new quests that unlock after clearing the game’s main story, new costumes, and more. To celebrate the release, we got a
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Level-5 decided to go the Pokémon GO way with its popular (in Japan) franchise Yo-Kai Watch. Today, during a livestream from Japan the publisher announced Yo-Kai Watch World. The game is developed in collaboration with GungHo Online Entertainment, and mixes location-based gameplay with augmented reality, prompting players to find the franchise’s familiar Yokai in the real world.
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Today Bandai Namco Entertainment released a new trailer for the upcoming JRPG by Level-5 Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom. The video pairs beautiful footage of the game with a special behind-the-scenes discussion about the music by legendary Composer Joe Hisaishi. Appropriate to the game’s roots, Hisaishi-sensei is well-known for having composed the score of
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