A new preorder advertisement posted on the official Pokemon website for HeartGold and SoulSilver has revealed previously unseen footage from the games. New enhancements include autumn-colored trees and settings, 3D intros featuring Ho-Oh flying the skies and Lugia swimming underwater, redesigned Gyms, Pokemon using HM moves more easily than before, and other game footage. You can watch the video below.

Today I'm going to the Pokemon Center in Tokyo and there is supposed to be a new HeartGold and SoulSilver advertisement playing, so I will try to record it and post it.

Several online stores such as EBGames have revealed that Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky will be released in the United States on October 1st. The game was originally released on April 18th in Japan.

I leave for Japan tomorrow! I'm not sure at what point I will get Wi-Fi so if there aren't any updates you'll know why. I can't wait to see how popular Pokemon is over there!

A holo POP 9 Rotom was recently released at stores like Target. It comes in a blister pack with a Rising Rivals booster pack, a POP 9 booster pack, a yellow energy coin, and of course Rotom. The blister pack costs $4.99. The Rotom is special in that it features the glassy holographic foil of the Rotom cards from Rising Rivals. Click the thumbnail below for a larger scan.

Nationals is over and the winners have been crowned! Go-Pokemon has an article interviewing the top winners, which you can read by clicking here. Congratulations to all!

Masters Division
1st – Kyle Sucevich (using Luxray / Infernape)
2nd – Darrel Moreno
3rd – Anthony Eason
4th – Karl Kitchin

Senior Division
1st – Aylam Rosenthal (using Gengar / Nidoqueen)
2nd – Lloyd Wenger
3rd – Nathaniel Lawson
4th – Jacob Tamm

Junior Division
1st – Justin Whitaker (using Machamp)
2nd – Austin Hanna
3rd – Noah Lawson
4th – Daniel Tran

The official Japanese Pokemon website has revealed that HeartGold and SoulSilver will be released on September 12th in Japan. The games will cost 4800 yen, or about $50, which is the typical price of Pokemon games in Japan.

The official Japanese Pokemon Card website has uploaded a new commercial for The Advent of Arceus' theme decks, which you can watch below. As reported a while ago, the decks are 60 cards each, with one focusing on Grass and Fire-type Pokemon while the other features Lightning and Psychic-types. Both decks are packaged with two Arceus of each deck's types and a Colorless Arceus LV.X. As with the main set, they will be released in Japan on July 8th.

From what is seen in the commercial, we can assume the following cards will appear in the decks: Ponyta, Rapidash, Treecko, Grovyle, Sceptile, Tangela, Tangrowth, Electrike, Manectric, Gastly, Haunter, Gengar, Gulpin, Swalot, Bronzor, Bronzong, Professor Rowan, Mom's Kindness, Poke Ball, Potion.

In case you missed this news story from the beginning of the month, the next English set will be named Supreme Victors. The official Go-Pokemon has just revealed three cards from the set, being Drifblim FB, Regigigas FB, and Blaziken FB LV.X. Click the thumbnails below for larger images. Remember, this set will consist of cards from Pulse of the Frontier and some random Japanese promos most likely.

Sorry for not posting any updates as of late. Within the next month or so we're going to finally be posting our new Card-Dex (that I've been promising will return for... fourish years). We have been working hard on revamping the entire site since last September, and it's been a huge but exciting secret among all the people helping out. I'm excited to finally announce it now since we found a committed programmer who has been doing an excellent job over the past several months, and especially this past month, putting all of our work together. We will have a large card search engine, set information pages, even higher-quality scans than now, theme deck pages, Pokemon species pages, a Modified Card-Dex, Japanese information and translations, and much more stuff. So while we're finishing putting all the information together, please be patient as updates may become a little scarce this upcoming month unless news is extremely important.

In the meantime, I leave for Japan in a week for an entire month! We will have a movie summary the day Arceus: Space-Time Conquered comes out, so you can look forward to that as well! I'll also post about any other Pokemon experiences that occur while I'm there since I know many people are curious about Pokemon life in Japan.

Good luck to everyone going to Nationals this week! By Worlds we should have all of the aforementioned sections up, which will help you all out with your deck building and collecting!

Update (6/23): Bangiras has finished most of the Scramble section below, so if you haven't looked at it in a few days, check it out now!

Bangiras has been playing Melee! Pokemon Scramble all day and has compiled all the information she has learned on to a page. The page talks about how the game works, the different dungeons, battle royales, what Pokemon you can encounter, etc. It will constantly be updated throughout the day as she continues to play the game, so you might want to refresh it every few hours if you are interested! Additional pictures will be added later as well.

Filb.de has uploaded a video clip from Oha Suta, a Japanese TV show, which shows footage of the Notched-Ear Pichu event in Ilex Forest and the Arceus event involving Cynthia. Thanks go to Yaminokame and Bangiras for the translations!

For the Pichu event, Notched-Ear Pichu will join your team in Ilex Forest once you have traded over the movie "Pikachu-Colored Pichu." It is female and will know the attacks Helping Hand, Volt Tackle, Swagger, and Pain Split. The video shows a battle between Igglybuff, Marril, and both Pichu in a Union Room match to showcase what the Pokemon look like. The clip reveals updated Gold and Silver battle music and that the HP bars are white once again.

The Arceus event clip shows Gold walking with his Arceus into "Shinto Ruins," a hidden location. The exact whereabouts of the ruins within HeartGold and SoulSilver are unknown, but because snow is falling it could be on or near Mt. Silver or even back at Mt. Coronet. When you trade over the movie Arceus to the games and bring it to the Ruins of Alph, the location will unlock itself. Cynthia will already be at the ruins waiting for you, perhaps because she is still studying the legends of Sinnoh. Your Arceus will tell you that you can pick one of three Pokemon for it to create, being Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina. Once you pick the Pokemon you want, the Unown will swirl around you, an egg will hatch, and the Pokemon you picked will apparently appear in your party at Level 1.