Nintendo teases the fifth Professor Layton title as being in-bound next year...

Normally, Nintendo of Europe are a little last-minute dot com with their annual Professor Layton pushes, so it's extra striking that the publisher is already bringing our attentions to next year's title.

The tease was made at the end of the latest trailer for Professor Layton and the Spectre's Call - the fourth DS title in the critically-acclaimed puzzle series that's set to hit our shores at the end of the month.

Next year's 3DS game was one the system's most successful Japanese launch titles. It released as Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracles, but as these things go, expect a name change for the localised version.

The tradition remains that Layton doesn't hit our shores until the latter portion of the year, so we're most likely in for quite the wait for the good professor's first 3D venture.