FREE Pokemon Guide

Two new Pokemon titles are headed for the DS and Nintendo intends to rewards fans that order early with a free guide to help them succeed in the game.

Starting March 16, 2008, Pokemon fans who order either Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness or Pokemon Mystery Dungen: Explorers of Time will receive a free, limited edition guide for the game.

This guide contains a collection of game tips, interviews, an original manga, and game art.

In these newest Pokemon games, players travel through time and darkness to try and unravel the mystery of why they have been transformed into a Pokemon. This quest will lead them through countless randomly generated dungeons and will allow you to encounter more than 490 different Pokemon.

Pokemon is HOT!

After only five days on store shelves, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl have already sold over 1 million copies. Over a half million copies of the game were pre-ordered before launch, and in Japan the game has sold over 5 million copies.

To date, more than 155 million copies of Pokemon games have sold worldwide.

Pokemon Pre-orders Top 500,000

Nintendo has announced that preorders for Pokemon Diamond and Pearl have topped 500,000!

Based on these preorder numbers, Pokemon is expected to be one of the top-selling games of 2007. These numbers have more than doubled the pre-order numbers of LeafGreen and FireRed. Those games went on to sell more than 3.4 million units in North America!

These new Pokemon titles will include new W-Fi connectivity allowing for voice chat and multiplayer modes, and all new Pokemon characeters.

New Pokemon Details

Nintendo has released some interesting new details about Pokemon Diamond and Pearl. The first two DS Pokemon titles will feature the 380 Pokemon avialable in previous versions, along with over 100 new ones! Gamers will also be able to import Pokemon from their GBA games after completing certain objectives.

The game's wireless ability is what's really getting some attention. By using a local wireless connection, up to eight Pokemon trainers can connect and play together. The game's are fully Wi-Fi compatible, so players can log onto Nintendo Wi-Fi and compete with players from all around the wold. The microphone built into the DS will even allow gamers to talk to one another in voice chat.

Diamond and Pearl will also feature a Global Trade Station where players can trade Pokemon with other players all across the world. From here gamers can browse the boards to find out what Pokemon other players are looking for, or post Pokemon that they want to trade.

Starting March 18, fans who pre-order a copy of either game will receive one of two collectible Pokemon styluses

Nintendo Announces Wii, DS Lineup

Nintendo has announced a strong lineup of games heading for the Wii and DS in the coming months. Noteworthy entries to RPG fans include Pokemon Battle Revolution (Wii), Pokemon Diamond/Pokemon Pearl (DS), and Super Paper Mario (Wii).

Pokemon Battle Revolution will be released June 25, 2007 and is being hyped as "a game of remarkable firsts" because it is:

* the first Wii game to include Nintendo(R) Wi-Fi Connection play

* the first Pokemon game for Wii

* the first game to link Wii and the hand-held Nintendo DS(TM)

* and the first Wii game that can be controlled using Nintendo DS

So, uh, yeah... go buy a Wii if you can find one.