Nintendo Announces Earlier Release Date for Professor Layton and the Unwound Future

In a press release yesterday, Nintendo announced that the company was moving the US release date for the third game in the popular Professor Layton series, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, up a week to September 12th.

A mesmerizing mix of mystery, time travel and puzzle-solving fun, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future places the professor and his trusted apprentice at the center of a spellbinding adventure after they receive a strange letter sent from 10 years in the future. Players must wind their way through more than 165 mind-bending puzzles as they decipher clues and strive to unlock a time-twisting mystery that threatens to plunge London into chaos.

The first two games in the series, Professor Layton and the Curious Village and Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, have sold nearly 1.4 million copies in the United States. For more information about these games, as well as many other mystery games for the Nintendo DS, visit Games of Mystery.