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Wi Fi Powered Pokemon Fans Get the Enigma Stone

Nintendo of America, as the publisher, and The Pokemon Company have announced that players of Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver will be able to get, for about a month, a new item called the Engima Stone as long as they have access to wireless Internet through their handheld device. The Enigma Stone is a powerful art...

30 July 2010
15:11 GMT

Pokemon Black & White Has Video Chat and Cooperative Play

Nintendo has announced that Pokemon Black & White will be coming to the Japanese market on September 18 and that players in North America and in Europe might get it in early 2011 and now the publisher is offering more information on the new title, the first in quite some time to introduce original content to the seri...

14 July 2010
08:36 GMT

Pokemon Black and White Confirmed for September 18

Nintendo has announced that the new Pokemon Black and White videogames will be launched in Japan on September 18, exclusively on the DS line up of handhelds. They are developed by Game Freak, a studio, which specializes in Pokemon titles for the Japanese giant, and are the first to bring entirely new content to the s...

29 June 2010
18:51 GMT

A Gamer's Week: June 6

This week has been dominated, here at Softpedia, by the launch of Alpha Protocol, a game we have reviewed and dedicated several gameplay diaries to. This edition's Weekend Reading piece is also using the new Obsidian role playing game as a jump off point for a discussion about innovation in gaming and the title ...

6 June 2010
03:11 GMT

Reshiram and Zekron Land on the Covers of Pokemon Black and White

The Pokemon Company has announced the launch for Pokemon White Version and Black Version is set for the spring of 2011 in both Europe and North America. The Nintendo DS exclusive titles will also have covers featuring all-new Pokemons, Reshiram linked to the Black version and Zekrom linked to the White one. The same ...

31 May 2010
15:11 GMT

NPD Software: Splinter Cell Takes a Stealth Approach to the Top

It's a bad April for the videogame industry, the NPD Group, the organization that tracks sales for both hardware and software on the North American market, saying the month saw a drop of 26% over the same period in 2009, which is the fourth biggest ever drop in one year. The overall value of sales has plummeted ...

14 May 2010
19:01 GMT

Kojima Talks About Crying in MGS: Peace Walker

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, the PlayStation Portable videogame from Konami that has been widely characterized as MGS 5, has gone gold and is set to go on sale in Japan on April 28. To celebrate the occasion, series director Hideo Kojima has given an interview to Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu. The outlet has al...

26 April 2010
08:11 GMT

A Gamer's Week: April 18

It's always interesting to take a look at the sales charts, for both hardware and software, which the NPD Group puts out for individual months for the United States market, especially because of the rivalry between the big console makers. But for those looking for some reading, this Sunday we also have an EndWee...

18 April 2010
04:41 GMT

NPD Software: Kratos Is Making a Killing

March has been an interesting month for videogames, with quite a few high profile launches happening, and the NPD Group figures which came out show that God of War 3, the ending of the revenge saga featuring Spartan Kratos, managed to be the best sold game of the month in the United States, selling about 1.10 million...

16 April 2010
05:21 GMT

The Nintendo 3DS Is Only a Means to an End

The newly announced handheld from Nintendo, the 3DS, will apparently be the biggest hardware launch for the company since 2004. It might have been unveiled in a hurry in a short press release for fear that the Japanese gaming media might actually leak details about it ahead of the company, but Nintendo is now shiftin...

15 April 2010
03:43 GMT

More Pokemon Black and White Details Coming on April 15

Obsessed collectors and more casual role playing fans should be happy to know that Nintendo is set to launch Pokemon Black and White, two new games in the long running franchise, in the fall of this year. For the first time since the launch of Diamond and Pearl, the Japanese company will offer new adventures for the ...

12 April 2010
05:11 GMT

Just Dance Leaps Just Cause 2

It's a battle of the Just videogames in the United Kingdom videogame chart this week, with the casual rhythm dancing title created by Ubisoft taking over from the open world action adventure delivered by Square Enix through Eidos. Further down the chart, things seem much quieter than at the top with no new title...

8 April 2010
03:28 GMT

Just Cause 2 Grapples to the Top

It's quite a rare sight for the United Kingdom videogame chart but two new entries sit at the top for the previous week, with Just Cause 2, the latest release that Square Enix prepared for the Western market under the Eidos brand, taking the first position.With Rico grappling along, tying stuff together and gene...

1 April 2010
13:31 GMT

Nintendo's DS2 Is Almost Ready, but Won't Be Unveiled at GDC

The topic of Nintendo's DS2 is about as hot as it is mysterious. The most fiery part of it was carried out between Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's president and CEO, and one of Japan's biggest newspapers, The Asahi Shimbun. Initial reports from the newspaper stated that Nintendo's top man leaked some inf...

17 February 2010
04:59 GMT

Japanese Market Shrinks, Dragon Quest IX Is the Best Seller

Figures offered by the Dengeki magazine in Japan and by its publishing company, ASCII Media Works, are showing that the videogame market for the Land of the Rising Sun shrank pretty dramatically last year while also showing Dragon Quest IX, the Japanese role playing game published by Square Enix for the Nintendo DS, ...

4 January 2010
04:09 GMT

Pokemon Coming to the Nintendo DS on March 14

Nintendo has had great success with the DS handheld and its variants on the United States market, a fact confirmed by the 1.7 million consoles that were sold in November, a new record for sales of a portable gaming device.And now the company has revealed the titles set to arrive in the first half of 2010 for the plat...

16 December 2009
03:42 GMT

Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 Wins in Japan

The weekly numbers for hardware and software charts in Japan have new leaders for the week that began on November 2 and ended on November 8 as seen in the data offered by Media Create, a firm which closely watches the market. Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 from Konami taps Japan's love of football in order to get to ...

16 November 2009
13:31 GMT

DSi Still Leads in Japan

Despite the big amount of new titles that is being released each week, the Japanese market seems fixated on getting Pokemon video games in the top spot in software charts and on making the Nintendo DSi handheld on which they are played the best sold piece of gaming hardware. The DSi, which is set to receive a new ve...

2 November 2009
04:34 GMT

PlayStation 3 Again Beats the Nintendo Wii

The hardware and software sales figures for the week that ended on October 18 have been released by Media Create and they show the PlayStation 3 home-gaming console again selling better than its rivals in the Land of the Rising Sun, while Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has debuted at number five in the software chart. T...

26 October 2009
05:08 GMT

PlayStation 3 Sales Fall Again in Sync with Pokemon

The beginning of another week means that we have an update related to the hardware and software charts in the far away land of Japan. It seems to be a week without big surprises, with the PlayStation 3 Slim continuing to decline in sales slowly while the Nintendo DS dominates hardware.The Nintendo-made handheld has m...

5 October 2009
04:39 GMT

Pokemon Soul and Heart Dominate Japan

The Japanese videogame market has been reinvigorated in the last few weeks by the release of the all new and cheaper PlayStation 3 Slim and by the launch of fresh Pokemon videogames. These twin forces seem, for the moment at least, to be holding up the market in preparation for the upcoming slew of releases that will...

28 September 2009
04:58 GMT

Nintendo DSi Beats the PlayStation 3

Last week, the PlayStation 3 Slim, with its newly reduced price point, managed to top the charts and move more units than the initial launch of the Sony home console. This week is more normal, with the Nintendo DSi handheld getting back to the first spot in the hardware chart. Still, Sony must be pleased to see that ...

21 September 2009
04:48 GMT

Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver Dated for Western Markets

Nintendo is a huge company in terms of gaming, but it is even bigger in the realm of entertainment, owning a lot of franchises that have spanned various mediums like Mario, The Legend of Zelda or Metroid. But without a doubt one of the most world famous series from under the umbrella of the Japanese corporation is Po...

17 August 2009
11:11 GMT

New Pokemon Videogame Coming on October 12

Pokemon is big business. Consider the animated series, the animated movies, the videogames, the action figures that fans of the series snap up as soon as they appear.Since their first appearance in the game, way back in 1996, the creatures have managed to sell about 191 million units world wide. And on October 12, fa...

31 July 2009
17:31 GMT

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Hints XLIX (DS)

Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, or Pocket Monsters Diamond/Pearl, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game franchise developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. Of the Pokemon RPG series, Pokemon Platinum has also been recently re...

12 May 2009
05:05 GMT

Silver and Gold Pokemon Remakes Confirmed

Last week, we wrote about how a Japanese kids’ show strongly suggested that Nintendo was set to remake two of the most interesting games in the Pokemon franchise: Silver and Gold.The signs were balloons dangling over the heads of the show's presenters. Now, the official Pokemon site, which, unfortunately f...

11 May 2009
17:51 GMT

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Hints XLVIII (DS)

Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, or Pocket Monsters Diamond/Pearl, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game franchise developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. Of the Pokemon RPG series, Pokemon Platinum has also been recently re...

11 May 2009
05:11 GMT

Nintendo Makes Even More Money

Nintendo has reported record sales again, when it comes to both hardware and software. The Japanese game console creator and videogame publisher has managed to increase its sales and profit, registering a 10% increase over the previous period. Operating income reached 5.6 billion dollars for the fiscal year while net...

8 May 2009
13:51 GMT

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Hints XLVII (DS)

Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, or Pocket Monsters Diamond/Pearl, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game franchise developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. Of the Pokemon RPG series, Pokemon Platinum has also been recently re...

8 May 2009
04:20 GMT

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Hints XLVI (DS)

Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, or Pocket Monsters Diamond/Pearl, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game franchise developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. Of the Pokemon RPG series, Pokemon Platinum has also been recently re...

7 May 2009
05:09 GMT

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Hints XLV (DS)

Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, or Pocket Monsters Diamond/Pearl, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game franchise developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. Of the Pokemon RPG series, Pokemon Platinum has also been recently re...

6 May 2009
05:10 GMT

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Hints XLIV (DS)

Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, or Pocket Monsters Diamond/Pearl, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game franchise developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. Of the Pokemon RPG series, Pokemon Platinum has also been recently re...

5 May 2009
04:48 GMT

Nintendo Is Getting Ready for More Pokemon

If there's anything inseparable from the handhelds released by Nintendo, it's the Pokemon franchise, which has generated one of the most important series of videogames for the platform, with huge sales and a very big fan base. And it seems that the Japanese videogame developer and publisher is getting ready...

4 May 2009
05:23 GMT

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Hints XLIII (DS)

Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, or Pocket Monsters Diamond/Pearl, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game franchise developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. Of the Pokemon RPG series, Pokemon Platinum has also been recently re...

4 May 2009
04:49 GMT

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Hints XLII (DS)

Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, or Pocket Monsters Diamond/Pearl, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game franchise developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. Of the Pokemon RPG series, Pokemon Platinum has also been recently re...

30 April 2009
05:03 GMT

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Hints XLI (DS)

Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, or Pocket Monsters Diamond/Pearl, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game franchise developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. Of the Pokemon RPG series, Pokemon Platinum has also been recently re...

29 April 2009
04:46 GMT

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Hints XL (DS)

Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, or Pocket Monsters Diamond/Pearl, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game franchise developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. Of the Pokemon RPG series, Pokemon Platinum has also been recently re...

28 April 2009
05:20 GMT

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Hints XXXIX (DS)

Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, or Pocket Monsters Diamond/Pearl, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game franchise developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. Of the Pokemon RPG series, Pokemon Platinum has also been recently re...

27 April 2009
04:44 GMT

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time Hints XXXVI (DS)

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, or Pokemon Fushigi no Danjon Toki no Tankentai, is a video game developed exclusively for the Nintendo DS by Chunsoft and published by Nintendo. It was paired up with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness, which was made exclusively available for the Nintendo DS po...

24 April 2009
06:06 GMT

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Hints XXXVIII (DS)

Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, or Pocket Monsters Diamond/Pearl, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game franchise developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. Of the Pokemon RPG series, Pokemon Platinum has also been recently re...

24 April 2009
05:38 GMT

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time Hints XXXV (DS)

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, or Pokemon Fushigi no Danjon Toki no Tankentai, is a video game developed exclusively for the Nintendo DS by Chunsoft and published by Nintendo. It was paired up with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness, which was made exclusively available for the Nintendo DS po...

23 April 2009
05:49 GMT

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Hints XXXVII (DS)

Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, or Pocket Monsters Diamond/Pearl, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game franchise developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely-popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. Of the Pokemon RPG series, Pokemon Platinum has also been recently re...

23 April 2009
04:45 GMT

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time Hints XXXIV (DS)

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, or Pokemon Fushigi no Danjon Toki no Tankentai, is a video game developed exclusively for the Nintendo DS by Chunsoft and published by Nintendo. It was paired up with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness, which was made exclusively available for the Nintendo DS po...

22 April 2009
05:18 GMT

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Hints XXXVI (DS)

Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, or Pocket Monsters Diamond/Pearl, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game franchise developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely-popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. Of the Pokemon RPG series, Pokemon Platinum has also been recently re...

22 April 2009
04:37 GMT

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time Hints XXXIII (DS)

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, or Pokemon Fushigi no Danjon Toki no Tankentai, is a video game developed exclusively for the Nintendo DS by Chunsoft and published by Nintendo. It was paired up with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness, which was made exclusively available for the Nintendo DS po...

21 April 2009
05:33 GMT

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Hints XXXV (DS)

Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, or Pocket Monsters Diamond/Pearl, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game franchise developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely-popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. Of the Pokemon RPG series, Pokemon Platinum has also been recently re...

21 April 2009
05:01 GMT

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time Hints XXXII (DS)

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, or Pokemon Fushigi no Danjon Toki no Tankentai, is a video game developed exclusively for the Nintendo DS by Chunsoft and published by Nintendo. It was paired up with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness, which was made exclusively available for the Nintendo DS po...

17 April 2009
04:58 GMT

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Hints XXXIV (DS)

Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, or Pocket Monsters Diamond/Pearl, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game franchise developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely-popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. Of the Pokemon RPG series, Pokemon Platinum has also been recently re...

17 April 2009
04:06 GMT

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time Hints XXXI (DS)

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, or Pokemon Fushigi no Danjon Toki no Tankentai, is a video game developed exclusively for the Nintendo DS by Chunsoft and published by Nintendo. It was paired up with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness, which was made exclusively available for the Nintendo DS po...

16 April 2009
05:32 GMT

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Hints XXXIII (DS)

Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, or Pocket Monsters Diamond/Pearl, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game franchise developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely-popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. Of the Pokemon RPG series, Pokemon Platinum has also been recently re...

16 April 2009
04:49 GMT


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