The Pika Club is proud to present the opening of its new Adoption Agency! Now you can adopt your very own Pokemon egg and raise it. Share it with others and encourage them to feed it and watch it grow and evolve! Here’s mine:
Give a Pokemon a home today!
http://www.thepikaclub.co.uk/adopt/
As promised, here is the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky trailer that was shown at E3:
So, what do you think of it? We’d love to hear from you in our comments section, or you can register on our forums and talk about it there!
We’re a bit behind on this so I apologise but better late than never. The Pika Club has unearthed some footage from Pokemon Sunday showing a short clip of Heart Gold/Soul Silver in action.
Significantly the footage shows the trainer wandering around outside Slowpoke Well with Totodile following him. This would appear to suggest that the Pokemon follow you like in Pokemon Yellow and are not limited to any particular areas such as New Bark Town.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky made an appearance at E3 in the form of a video, box art and a release date.
The game, released in Japan on 18 April 2009, has been given a release date of Autumn 2009, which presumably is for North America. No word on a European release date yet.
As soon as a video surfaces, it will be uploaded to our YouTube account and added to this post.
Unfortunately there has been a bit of a drought in terms of Pokemon news as of late and it looks like it’s going to stay that way for the near future, at least until the next issue of CoroCoro is released which will likely contain more information on Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver.
Until then, it’s nice to see Pokemon still has some impressive selling power according to this week’s British sales charts.
Pokemon is a hugely successful franchise worldwide but it’s particularly huge in Japan, where it is plastered on almost literally everything. Pokemon plane? Check. Pokemon X-ray machine? Check. And so now Japan is getting ready for the release of Pokemon camping gear. Seems pretty normal compared to some of the stuff Pokemon has had its name plastered all over in the past.
Camping gear
The gear goes on sale next month and includes sun shades, leisure play seats, mini-tables and a lantern.
In pursuing my education I must make another temporary leave of absence from The Pika Club in order to focus on my studies. It was The Pika Club’s Easter project to develop a working dex database in order to compete with other, larger Pokemon websites for usefulness and ease of use. The dex database was to comprise of:
Since then other dexs have been suggested to us, such as a PickUpdex and others. While this is something to think about in the future, it is not a priority right now. We somewhat underestimated the undertaking in these 3 dexs alone and did not succeed in completeing these before Easter’s end. However good headway has been made, such that privately I am willing to release the Berrydex which, as far as we are concerned, is 100% complete. This is a preliminary release in that it is not being advertised outside of The Pika Club; rather we prefer to wait until we have our Tridex Tour De Force completed in order to take on the big boys.
An alpha release of our Pokédex, dubbed ‘PHPokédex’, was considered but it is not far enough along and is too cluttered to suggest what it may offer to visitors in the future and it was decided against. I will return sometime in early June and hopefully our dex project will be complete before the summer. For now, click the berry below (or the middle button above this post) to reach our Berrydex.
The Berrydex is undoubtably not without its faults and so I invite all who are registered members of our forums to report bugs, errors, suggest features and offer advice in the appropriate forum.
Nintendo Australia today announced the release date for Pokemon Platinum in Australia and New Zealand. That date is 14 May 2009, a week before the European release on 22 May. The announcement comes unusually late considering the impending release date but is surely welcome news to our friends in Oceania.
According to a report from WorldScreen.com:
“Pokemon USA, based in Seattle and New York, and London-based Pokemon UK, are unifying their operations under the banner of The Pokemon Company International.”
The new president of The Pokemon Company International is Kenji Okubo, prior president of Pokemon USA, who will report to the company’s worldwide headquarters in Japan. In a statement from Okubo:
“The Pokemon offices in North America and Europe work closely together on a daily basis. As the Pokemon brand continues to thrive around the world, this change will ensure our worldwide reach, and the connection between our offices, is reflected in our name.”
The Pokemon Company International is responsible for brand management, licensing, marketing, the Pokemon Trading Card Game, the animated TV series, home entertainment, the Pokemon Trading Figure Game and the official Pokemon website, outside of Asia.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky Box Art
The May issue of CoroCoro magazine has revealed some new information about the next game in the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon franchise. Two missions and information on Shaymin and Arceus have been revealed.
Shaymin
Shaymin has been confirmed as available after players complete the game. Players will be taken to Shaymin’s Village from Spinda’s Café where they will meet a new exploration team called Frontier, consisting of Machoke, Breloom and Mawile. Shaymin will then escort the two parties to the Sky’s Summit dungeon where players can obtain an item called the Sky’s Present.
Arceus
Arceus features in a dungeon called Destiny’s Tower and involves an item called Time-Space Orb. No other information is known at present.
Information about the two missions is as follows:
More information as it comes.