The Battle Pyramid thunders into Kissaki City. Shinji as arrogant as ever, challenges the magnificent Jindai to a battle. Will Shinji's hopes and dreams be crushed forever?

Pictures for Episode 597: Battle Pyramid! Shinji VS Jindai!! / バトルピラミッド!シンジvsジンダイ!! are now available. Both Low Quality (267 x 150) and High Quality (1280x720) images are available. Click on the image below to view the pictures.

The remakes of Gold and Silver titled Heart Gold and Soul Silver will be released in Fall '09. The titles will take advantage of the DS's capabilities by implementing new graphics and sound. A retail price has yet to be set. The original titles sold more than 23 million titles worldwide.

Source: Pokemon.jp

Pokemon Sunday is a live action show which airs on TV Tokyo on Sundays at 8:00 am. In last weeks episode, there was an announcement there would be news released on next weeks episode during the game segment. During the announcement there were gold and silver balls hanging overhead which has lead to speculation of a G/S remake. According to when FR/LG was announced, this is a plausible theory. However, it could also end up not being a game. We'll keep you posted.

There is also further speculation and support towards a Gold/Silver release date due to the timeframe difference between FireRed/LeafGreen and the 3rd installment of a generation, i.e. Hoenn.

Pokemon Emerald was released respectively on 9/16/04 in Japan. FireRed/LeafGreen was released on 1/29/04. The time difference between 1/29/04 and 9/16/04 is roughly 7 months and 17 days.

Pokemon Platinum was released on 9/13/08. The difference between 9/13/08 and 5/2/09 (The teaser on Pokemon Sunday) is 7 months and 19 days or a 2 day difference between respective timeframes.

However, do keep in mind there is one difference with the comparison between FRLG/Emerald versus Platinum/GS Remake.

The comparison between the FRLG/Emerald timeframe versus a Platinum/GS Remake timeframe is based on a release date versus an announcement date. If we were to go off the rumored release date of September '09, it would actually put us within a year.

The timeframes are very close in comparison and in addition, would both carry the trend of releasing a remake within 1 year of a 3rd Installment game being released.

Pokémon USA, Inc. has announced that Akira Chaba, will resign at the end of 2007. He joined when the New York corporate office was established and helped to establish Pokémon as a national brand.

Chiba will be replaced by Kenji Okubo, previous executive Vice President and head of of the Seattle Office, effective Jan 1st, 2008. Okubo will manage the operations in New York, Seattle, and London. He will oversee all intiatives outside of Japan including the TCG.

So far the game's been selling constantly, and has very soon hit the tops in almost all countries. Now at a whopping 10+ million mark, Pokemon remains in the tops for Spain, too:

Pokemon Diamond/Pearl has been released in Europe July 27th and doesn't stop making records. We'll keep you updated on the matter.

Source: PokéFeeds

With the release of Pokemon Diamond & Pearl in the Europe, we knew it would hardly take any time (if at all) to claim the #1 and #2 spots in hardware.

While Pokemon Diamond successfully captured the #1 spot, Pokemon Pearl however fell to the formidable foe, Transformers: The Movie Game. However, Pearl was only outsold by about 100-200 units.

So be ready for many weeks of ahead of Pokemon Diamond, Pokemon Pearl, and... Transformers: The Movie? at the top spots in the UK!

Is it just me, or does the UK really have something for games based off of movies?

No one didn't believe that Pokemon Diamond & Pokemon Pearl would not be huge hits on the already highly successful Nintendo DS. If any game would have proven the lasting power of the DS, or the fact it is a money printing device it is these two games.

The marvelous point about this 10 million mark feet, is that the game has JUST been released in Europe. Thus means it is no where near its peak, and goes to show that over these past 10 years, Pokemon has really developed a lasting power.

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The title for Diamond & Pearl Episode #45 has been revealed as "Hunter J Returns! Protect Tatetops!!" ハンターＪ再び！タテトプスを守れ!! set to air August 30th on TV Tokyo.

Source: Bulbanews