Nintendo managed to secure three awards at this year’s Gamescom. Mario Kart 8 was selected in the “Best Wii U Game” and “Best Family Game” categories while Zelda: A Link Between Worlds was chosen as the “Best Mobile Game”.

You can find the full lineup of winners on our sister site.

Professor Layton has been Level-5’s most-successful series. The franchise has spawned 15 million copies around the world since the original’s release, the company announced during its “Vision” event in Japan held earlier today.

Level-5 provided sales updates on other IPs, too. Inazuma Eleven has also been access with global sales reaching 6.5 million units. Meanwhile, combined sales of Ni no Kuni on the PlayStation 3 and DS stand at 1.4 million sales worldwide.

There’s also a bit of news about Level-5’s Guild series. The likes of Liberation Maiden, Aero Porter, and Crimson Shroud, have sold 400,000 digital copies in total. Around 50% of the share comes from overseas downloads.

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Note: Screenshots are from mobile version.

Note: Screenshots are from mobile version.

Level-5 announced a new Layton game during its “Vision” event in Japan just a short while ago. However, this isn’t the same kind of Professor Layton that fans have come to love.

What Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino demonstrated was a RPG puzzle game. Not much about the project was said, but we do know that it’s coming to the 3DS and iOS/Android.

We’ll have the first brief footage of Layton 7 shortly.