At a developer roundtable this evening, Nintendo mastermind Shigeru Miyamoto commented that the company is working on a new Pikmin game. This comes the evening after Nintendo's E3 press conference, where many fans expected the company to announce a new Pikmin title for the Wii. More details from the roundtable are coming, so stay tuned!

Nintendo registers mysterious trademark for 'Piktura'

Siliconera spotted an unidentified Japanese trademark application from Nintendo, registered in June. The trademark is for the title "Piktura." Of course, it could be absolutely anything, from some kind of EyeToy-style webcam to a WiiWare game that makes jigsaw puzzles out of pictures on an SD card to some internal technology that consumers will never know about and which won't show up in Nintendo hardware for ten years.

But, as Siliconera pointed out, it starts with "Pik," and that makes it not entirely impossible that this trademark is Pikmin-related. Maybe it suggests generating Pikmin environments out of photos! The possibility of a connection to the Pikmin game that Miyamoto confirmed is infinitely more exciting than some random thing nobody knows about.