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Feb 7, 2008
DS News from N4G | Professor Layton and the Curious Village
DS - Professor Layton and the Curious Village - Professor Layton and the curious launch party If you're nearby New York City and have Layton fever set aside some time on February 10th (i.e. this Sunday). Nintendo is throwing an event to celebrate the release of Professor Layton and the Curious Village and the debut of the Cobalt/Black DS Lite at the Nintendo World Store. From 1-3PM event goers can purchase Layton a day early and compete in live puzzle challenges to win prizes. One of them will be a Cobalt/Black DS Lite, which will also be sold a day early just in case you don't win it.

Siliconera has the details, schedule and venue of the launch party.
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Jan 22, 2008
DS News from N4G | Professor Layton and the Curious Village
DS - Professor Layton and the Curious Village - New info on DS Professor Layton and his Curious Village Nintendo confirmed today - among other things - that its upcoming DS game Professor Layton and the Curious Village will feature the downloadable puzzle service already available for Japanese gamers.

Following its February release in the US, for every week for the first six months, a new puzzle will be available via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. These puzzles will be on top of the 130 already included in the game.
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Jan 21, 2008
DS News from N4G | Professor Layton and the Curious Village
DS - Professor Layton and the Curious Village - Professor Layton prepares to puzzle on Nintendo DS in North America Andrew Macarthy of Nintendic reports North American audiences are about to receive Level-5's "Professor Layton and the Curious Village". Set in the village of St. Mystere, players step into the inquisitive boots of Layton as he attempts to track down an elusive treasure hidden somewhere in the village. Many puzzles are new to the North American version of the game, and new puzzles will be available to download via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

Nintendo's official website notes the release date is February 18, while the latest press release differs with a February 10 launch date.
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Jan 2, 2008
DS News from N4G | Professor Layton and the Curious Village
DS - Professor Layton and the Curious Village - Download DS games on Wii Nintendo set to offer full DS games for download via Wii

US Nintendo DS owners will soon be able to download DS games through their Wii, Nintendo US boss Reggie Fils-Amie has told the New York Times.

The service will offer both complete games and demos, which will be directly downloaded to Wii via broadband, then wirelessly transmitted to DS.
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Dec 19, 2007
DS News from N4G | Professor Layton and the Curious Village
DS - Professor Layton and the Curious Village - Famitsu: Japan Sums Up 2007 in a Nutshell 1UP - Brian Gray, 12/19/2007:

As the last of 2007 creeps away, Japanese gaming mag Weekly Famitsu asked 280 users and 63 stores to sum up the game industry this year, publishing the first part of the questionnaire's results in this week's issue. A summary of the results is as follows.
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Dec 6, 2007
DS News from N4G | Professor Layton and the Curious Village
DS - Professor Layton and the Curious Village - Professor Layton spoils Wii Fit debut Even the allure of a balancing beam sim couldn't keep Japanese gamers from gobbling up another helping of brain benders carefully wrapped in an adorable adventure starring Professor Layton.
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Aug 29, 2007
DS News from N4G | Professor Layton and the Curious Village
DS - Professor Layton and the Curious Village - Level 5 announces two new games The developers of Dragon Quest VIII and Jeanne D'Arc reveal two new games in preparation for the Tokyo Game Show. Professor Layton and Pandora's Box, the sequel to Professor Layton and the Curious Village set for release later this year in the US. The second announced game is titled Lightning Eleven, and is an RPG revolving around the game of soccer (or, football to readers in the rest of the world).
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Feb 21, 2008
DS News from N4G | Puchi Puchi Virus [import]
DS - Puchi Puchi Virus [import] - Puchi Puchi Virus infects North America in May Puchi Puchi Virus - a puzzle game developed by Jaleco and the first casual Nintendo DS title to be published by NIS America - missed its original February release target and is now scheduled for May 2008.
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Nov 20, 2007
DS News from N4G | Puchi Puchi Virus [import]
DS - Puchi Puchi Virus [import] - NIS America announces their first DS game NIS America has announced their first DS game - and their first puzzle game, too. In February 2008, NIS America will bring over Puchi Puchi Virus, an object linkage game originally created by Jaleco.
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Feb 24, 2008
DS News from N4G | Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
DS - Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords - GDC '08: Puzzle Quest was deemed too risky Just like the Beatles, Puzzle Quest was turned down many times before D3 Publisher took the game on, Infinite Interactive CEO Steve Fawkner told the audience at his Game Developers Conference session.

Fawkner said that the pitching process was incredibly frustrating, which he illustrated with a cartoon. He said, "because it was deemed an 'innovative product,' it was difficult to sell the idea. We had one publisher who said they loved it, but they wouldn't publish it because they had no idea how many copies it would sell." A while later, the same publisher asked for more copies of the game, and Fawkner presumed this was because it had changed its mind on publishing the title. "They said 'no'," he laughed. "They just wanted more copies because everyone was playing it in the lunchtime in their office."
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