While they've had their share of misses, it's hard to name any Japanese game publisher who has had more recent cross-media successes than Level-5, the minds behind Professor Layton, Inazuma Eleven, Yo-Kai Watch, and many other franchises. The company has largely made hay on Nintendo platforms in recent years, but with the rise of the mobile gaming market in Japan, Level-5 has tried to dip their toe in the smartphone waters a few times already. For those outside of Japan, however, the only titles to manifest from these attempts include 3DS port Liberation Maiden [$2.99], Ace Attorney-esque Professor Layton spin-off Layton Brothers Mystery Room [Free], and Disney Tsum-Tsum [Free]knock-off Yo-Kai Watch Wibble Wobble [Free]. Not bad games, but probably not what Level-5 fans were hoping for. Some hope came a little while back when Level-5's head Akihiro Hino said in an interview that he wanted all of Level-5's games to have smartphone versions from here on out. It was hard to determine at the time just how thorough he intended that statement to be, or what he meant by smartphone versions. Yesterday, Level-5 held an event in Tokyo that helped clear up the picture a bit. A number of games were announced, and virtually all of them are coming to mobile as well as other devices. Not all of them have concrete plans for overseas releases, but at least four of them are confirmed to be coming in English. The catch is that they're all coming in 2017, so don't hold your breath or anything....