Straight from the director’s blog: all new Pokémon in Black/White

While it’s a rather small piece of news, the Gamefreak director’s blog (which used to be updated in English and Japanese but it seems they’ve given up on the English side) recently updated with an interesting tidbit, which you can read here.

In essence apparently Pokémon Black/White will feature absolutely no old Pokémon before getting the National Dex. This means it’s all new Pokémon in Isshu for the first part of your adventure. You could hear the Japanese Pokémon fans cheering across the globe as the news broke at the realisation that, until the National Dex at least, there would be no running into wild Geodude and Zubat in every cave ever. There has been some discontent over this as well as it also means you won’t be able to use any old favourites for a while and if no Pokémon from Generation V interest you then you’re stuck up until you get the National Dex. What do you think of the matter? Leave a comment or tell us on our forums!

Pokemon.co.jp website update

It seems Game Freak/Nintendo are keeping their cards close to their chest when it comes to Pokémon Black/White although this is rather unsurprising. Much like the recent Pokémon Sunday, the latest update of the official Japanese Pokémon website has failed to yield anything new. Rather they have simply uploaded clearer pictures of the screenshots featured in CoroCoro. We’ve made a new gallery for Pokémon Black/White and added them all, take a look!

New Heart Gold/Soul Silver forum avatars!

With the recent launch of Pokémon Heart Gold/Soul Silver in the US (unfortunately for those in Europe and elsewhere we still have to wait) we’ve decided to celebrate by uploading all the Heart Gold/Soul Silver sprites to the forums so you can use them as avatars! Why not head over to the forums and start chatting today?

Just A Quick Update

Sorry about the lack of updates recently around the site. Along with the lack of news in relation to Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver, we’ve been busy behind the scenes working on our upcoming Pokédex. Details on that later…

First up, this year’s Pikachu Short Movie has been announced. Pikachu’s Great Sparking Search will be aired on ANA flights during August, and will likely end up on the 12^th Movie’s DVD when that is eventually released. This short features Pikachu and Piplup getting separated from the gang and bumping into a Smoochum and a Notched Eared Pichu who are fighting over a gift that has disappeared. The search is on for the missing present.

We’ve also got a few Anime episode titles. In Japan, after Ash and Paul battle it out, the gang stick around Lake Aucity and meet Uxie. Title for episode 601 is Yukishii’s Shadow and will air June 25^th. (Yukishii is Uxie’s Japanese name, in case you didn’t know).

In the US, Pokemon D/P: Galactic Battles ticks on with titles for episodes 5 and 6 announced.

Episode 5: Leading A Stray airs on June 6^th where Ash and co find a Wailmer trapped in the sewers of Canalave City.

Episode 6: Steeling Piece of Mind! airs on June 13^th and finds the gang on Iron Island where, along with Riley and Barry they discover a Team Galactic plot involving all the steel Pokemon there.

Lastly, we know that Australia will also be getting the Secret Key for Rotom’s extra forms over wi-fi at the same time as Europe will be (June 8^th-July 19^th) along with a physical Nintendo tour hitting Target and Toys R Us stores between June 25^th and July 8^th. Check the Australian Pokemon Site for further details.

And that’s a quick round up of what we haven’t updated with in the last few days. Nintendo’s E3 Conference is tomorrow, its highly unlikely Pokemon HG/SS will appear, but you never know – we’ll bring you any Pokemon related E3 news ASAP

The Pika Club Easter Updates

Hello to all!

Most of you are probably now on Easter holidays/Spring break and enjoying the free time it gives you. What does The Pika Club have in store this Easter to keep you inside glued to our website? Read on and find out!

The Pika Club is now on YouTube!

The Pika Club now has its own YouTube channel! You can find us at http://www.youtube.com/user/ThePikaClub. On this channel we will be adding playthroughs, reviews and much more. Be sure to subscribe!

New forum!

The forums have been reshuffled a bit and a new one added! The changes are listed below:

General Pokemon Discussion and Serious Pokemon Discussion have been merged into Pokemon Discussion.

Anime & Manga has changed to Entertainment.

Competitive Battling has been added, filling a hole in the TPC forums and finally giving people a place to discuss battling in a competitive environment.

The completion of the PHPokédex!

It has been a ridiculously long time coming but over the Easter weekend The Pika Club will finally see the release of the PHPokédex, a fully fleshed out Pokemon compendium detailing each Pokemon in incredible detail making it one of the most comprehensive Pokédexes on the web.

We at The Pika Club hope you all have an enjoyable Easter and we hope you’ll come join us over the holidays!