New DS colours and Pokemon adventures coming to Australia (GameSpot)
Nintendo announces two new DS colour combos and new Pokemon games for Australia this June.
Viz Media Announces DVD Release of Pokmon: The Rise of Darkrai (Anime News Network)
San Francisco, CA, May 27, 2008 Viz Media , LLC ( Viz Media ), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has announced the DVD release of the latest Pokmon movie Pokmon: The Rise of Darkrai to hit store shelves today and will carry an SRP of $19.98.
12:40 (BST), 28/05/2008 Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Of Time/Darkness Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS … (gamesindustry.biz)
Pokmon fans get ready to rejoice and dust off that explorer hat as Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Of Time and Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Of Darkness hit stores across Europe very soon!
Related Games (Games Radar)
Before we get to this week’s Pokemusings, we wanted to remind our American readers that Darkrai is being distributed at participating Toys R Us stores this weekend. Be sure to snag this rare and excellent Pokemon if you can!
Review: ‘Pokemon Mystery Dungeon’ Is Charming but Dull (Wired News)
This cute little Nintendo DS game flips the franchise on its head, letting you play a pocket monster.
Games | Persona to Persona (Brick)
If youve ever wanted to go back to high school, youve got the chance to do it again in the recently re-released role-playing videogame, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES for the PlayStation 2. Among hardcore gamers, the Shin Megami Tensei series is known for starting the monster battling craze in Japan years before Pokmon, but the ghoulish character designs, foul language and mature themes in …
Three More Stations Face FCC Fines (Broadcasting and Cable)
Pokemon took a $14,000 poke at ACME Communications WIWB Suring, Wis., and Donald Duck came back to bite Viacom’s WKBD TV Detroit to the tune of $8,000, but the biggest hit is against a low-power station, which theFCC is proposing fining $20,000 for a multitude of transgressions.
New game’s ingenious strategy (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Establish a successful collectible-card-game brand, and it’s like a license to print money. “We say it all the time: Card games are essentially cardboard crack,” says Ken Baumhauer, the operations manager for The Roundtable Games & Stuff store in Conshohocken. “Once you play them, you can’t get enough. [Players] come in and buy pack after pack, card after card.”
Japanese medical team heads off to Myanmar (The Japan Times)
NARITA, Chiba Pref. (Kyodo) A Japanese medical team left for Myanmar on Thursday afternoon to treat people injured in the devastating cyclone that hit the country in early May. The 23-member team, including four doctors, seven nurses and a pharmacist, will be deployed for about two weeks in areas around the town of Labutta in southwestern Myanmar, which took some of the worst damage. Read the …
Nippon Oil joins North Sea project (The Japan Times)
Nippon Oil Corp. said Thursday its wholly owned British subsidiary will take part in an oil development project in an area of the North Sea controlled by Britain along with three British companies and a Canadian firm. Oil production at the West Don Field is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2009 with peak output estimated at 25,000 barrels per day, according to Japan’s largest oil …