It makes prefect sense that we’d be getting the sequel to one of the best DS games of last year, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, it was just about a matter of time until the announce it for our regain.

At the Game Developer Conference, Level 5 head of publishing Akihiro Hino told the audience, when being asked, he wants all six Layton games to eventually come out in the U.S. and Europe. If we do the math, this means that there are six Layton games in the works – one of them being the recently revealed Professor Layton and the Devil’s Flute.

Ending on that statement, he also revealed that the are currently working on on the localized version of Diabolical Box, and they hope to release it in the next six months.

What happened two weeks ago? What you don’t remember… Well, just so that you know, that’s when Killzone 2 released, however, now it seems that the PS3 exclusive has now sold over 1 million copies.

On the games opening weekend, Killzone 2 went on to sell 700,000 copies in both North America and Europe. And, of course, the following week it went on to sell another 300,000 copies, which, according to the charts, is about over a 50% drop in sales – a pretty decent showing considering the title was launched in a non-holiday sales period.

In total, the game has sold about 1.05 million copies thus far. With it’s Japanese release coming next month, the title should manage to stay on the charts for a while, hopefully.

For some reason EA just can’t seem to keep its head out of the spotlight, but that doesn’t mean that it’s bad thing. Anyway, French publisher Infogrames, who is the parent of Atari, announced today that an EA Veteran, that was most likely recently laid off, has join their distribution team.

According to GameDaily, Jackie Fromion has joined the company as the head of its newly formed distribution business, which has temporarily been labeled “Distribution Partners.” The new distribution entity regroups the Asian and European operations and will be 34 percent owned by Namco Bandai.

“I am very pleased to welcome Jackie,” said Infogrames CEO David Gardner. “As head of the new distribution company, he will bring his dynamism, professionalism and experience to help us to grow the business and develop the strategy.”

Fromion comes to Infogrames from Electronic Arts where he managed France, Southern Europe and finally Label Brand Development for The Sims.

In recent reports it was revealed that the 360 was “beating PS3 in Europe.” As simple as it may sound, Sony has moved to dispel Microsoft claims revealing internal figures that say its console has sold 300,000 more units than Xbox 360 in PAL territories.

And the company also doesn’t feel it has to follow Microsoft and further ignite consumer interest with a price cut of its own anytime soon. Sony will remain focused on the value offered by the PS3 and its extra functions and services.

“No we are not going to go down in price; neither are we going to go down in price on PS3 in spring time either. Absolutely not, whatever you might have heard to the contrary,” said SCEE president David Reeves.

“Our strategy is very much value added.” Reeves added. Sony’s business model for the console isn’t designed around dropping the RRP every time a manufacturing cost saving has been found. And he was keen to point out that, according to Sony figures, the PS3 is already ahead of Microsoft’s rival.

[Sony: We’re ahead of Xbox via MCV]

Reports earlier on this week stated that Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon will not be releasing on the PlayStation 3 because of some “development issues”. This wasn’t the first time we have seen this happen with the PlayStation versions of a Destroy All Humans! game. But Eurogamer was still hell bent on figuring out what had going to happen to the European PS3 version of the game.

Yesterday, THQ clarified the situation with Destroy All Humans! Path of Furon to Eurogamer, saying that the PS3 version will be released in Europe after all.

“Destroy all Humans: Path of the Furon will be released on both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 formats on February 13th 2009 across Europe,” he stated. “Due to the game being shipped earlier in North America on 2nd December a decision was made to proceed exclusively with the Xbox 360 format in that market.”

I’m going to go on a limb here, an say that there’s still alot of hope of a PS3 version of Destroy All Humans! Path of Furon in North America. They may just release it along side the European version of the game but one can always hope.

Wii owners may not be able to play Stake 2 to on the Wii, but yet the more they can still Skate it up with skill. Today, in a press release EA Montreal released the North American and European release dates for both Skate It on the Wii and DS. The press release revealed that Skate It will be hitting retail stores on November 19th in North America and November 20th in Europe. The game was recently announced to integrate the optional use of the Wii Balance Boardand, which adds to the realism, go figure.

It was once mandatory that game developers check with Sony on there games content in Europe. Now, when speaking at the Casual Connect conference in Kiev, SCEE’s George Bain confirmed that PS2 would now be “effectively an open platform” in Europe. This is thought to be an attempt to encourage regional developers in countries such as India and Russia to make “low-development cost titles and release them in their market”.

George Bain also confirmed that Sony’s entire content approval system has been streamlined into a single global system. Which makes it easier for developers to submit their content online under one website not separated by regions. Therefore, it makes it easier for developers to get their further downloadable content out, after there first one passes through which makes it faster because they don’t have to go through the process again.

We all know that last month was the Xbox 360’s key month in terms of sales, but what about the upcoming months for the holiday season? Would the 360 have what it takes to stand in the top spot?

When speaking to Kotaku, Aaron Greenberg, group product manager for Xbox 360, said that, “We -Microsoft- expect to continue our price advantage over the PlayStation 3 for a long time,”. He goes on to state that, “And we feel confident that we’ll outsell the PS3 this holiday season in North America and in Europe. We’ll do it on a global scale.” Kotaku had the chance to talk to him right after the NPD sales were released, where it showed that the company moved 347,200 units to American consumers.

Polygamia have gotten their hands on the English version of Fable II and they were nice enough to provide us with a short ten min video of the first ten minutes of “thy” Fable II. The video really doesn’t go into much detail about the games story, but it is just enough to fuel a bit of your hunger. The game will be releasing exclusively on the Xbox 360 on October 21, 2008 in NA, we will be reviewing the game very soon.

Looks like what he said was very true “Even if you kill me, our organization will live on.” and you’ll be helping his organization live on sooner then you may have though. We have received news from a Sega that the game will be hitting on September 9 in the U.S., along the North American release date we also have received the date for the European release. The game will be released in Europe this September also be just a little later then the North American version, which happens to be September 28.

I think it’s time to stop jumping around. According to a live blogging thing over at IGN , Square Enix exec Shinji Hashimoto said that “they will complete the PS3 version in Japan, then start a localization for the US and Europe while they start development on the 360 version.”

Many people many not understand that this means, it means a longer wait time in the U.S., not even a so called delay, it more feels like a super delay if you ask me. So why did they announce the game this early in it’s development? Because they think it’s a good idea for you to wait until the game comes out so that they can build the hype up.

So Mercenaries 2: World in Flames will be coming to a system near you on August 31, 2008 and in Europe on September 5, 2008.Some people have been dying  to gaze on how this game has been arranging up there is not really much to say about this video due to everything is explain with such ample details, man talk about a mouthful.

Black Rock Studios along with Disney Interactive Studios revealed today the box art for the upcoming off-road racing video game. The box on the right will grace stores in  Europe, the Middle East and Africa while North America, Asia, Latin America and Australia will get the box art on the left this gam set to be released in the Fall of 2008 and we where assured  by director Jason Avent that both game would run the same on the 360 version and Playstation 3  version.

You can take look at both in there Hi-Def glory Image 1 Image 2 .

Harmonix has announced that Rock Band, as we know it, has surpassed the three million copies sold mark. But wait, that’s not all. We also so have gotten word that nearly ten million songs were downloaded since the launch of the game last November. The game will be revealed in Europe on the Xbox 360 in 20 days and on August 29 on PS3, PS2 and Wii.

Calling all private military contractors! Electronic Arts announced today that its 3rd person co-op shooter, Army of Two, is expanding its two-man combat experience by releasing the new Security and Strategy Corporation Challenge mode and maps. The unique SSC Challenge mode has two teams of two competing in an intense obstacle course for the chance to join the SSC, the Private Military Corporation in Army of Two. The new maps will be available on April 24 in North America and Europe on Xbox Live Marketplace. The download pack will also come to the PlayStation Store on April 24 in North America and May 2008 in Europe.

"We want to support our fans with new content that delivers on the two-man gameplay but with a unique twist," says Alain Tascan, VP and General Manager of EA Montreal and Executive Producer of Army of Two. "The SSC Challenge gives players a chance to test their skills in a different setting while retaining the action packed co-op intensity that gamers have come to expect in Army of Two."

Intertwined with over-the-top combat, feverish action and challenging obstacle courses, players will work as a team to race to the finish in the four new co-op maps. The team that completes the course with the most cash will be crowned the ultimate two-man military outfit. The SSC Challenge mode and maps will be available for $7.50 in North America and €4.75 and £3.80 in Europe.

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