No Pikachus or Pichus were harmed in the making of this comic.

You can view more of Hoshika’s comics and art here: Hoshika’s Art Gallery

The Pokemon Center stores in Japan are introducing some new Pokemon Halloween products.

Here’s some videos of Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver from the Nintendo Channel on the Wii.

Oh Monday… why do you have to come? Ah well, at least we can all start the week with a laugh.

Pokémon Comics
40 levels higher? I can take them on. Or at least Brendan can in Pebble Version.

Sure, news is important. But if there is a freaking volcano erupting in front of me, I’m not going to stick around to capture the footage. Read the latest A Pokémon Comic With A Long Title!

I don’t know what to think of Wallace. I really don’t. Still, a tournament should be exciting. Let’s find out what happens next in Pokemon Edge!

Flap them ears, Luigi! Flap them ears in Pokemon Shroom Version!

Badge Number 1! Badge Number 1! Best part of all, cute Bulbasaur. Read Pokemon Yellow Comics!

Nooooooo! Rocky! Noooooo! Find out what happens in Pokémon-X!

PE2K Forum
Glitches are bad, but they allow us to do some things that seem impossible. Also, respect the President’s space in Teachy TV!

Poor Bulbasaur! He can’t seem to get a break in Team Diamond and Pearl!

The official Japanese Nintendo website has been updated with new screenshots showing the Wi-Fi/GTS features in Pokemon HeartGold and Pokemon SoulSilver.

Pokemon TCG Platinum: Supreme Victors was released yesterday:

Increase your power with impressive new Pokémon that will take you to the pinnacle of Pokémon battles—the Battle Frontier! The brand-new Pokémon Trading Card Game Platinum—Supreme Victors is available now!

In the new Pokémon TCG set, Platinum—Supreme Victors, you’ll find more sizzling Pokémon SP like Blaziken, more ferocious Pokémon LV.X like Charizard LV.X, and more opportunities to battle your way to the top. Victory will be supreme when you play with Pokémon trained by Team Galactic, the Battle Frontier elite, and the Sinnoh League Champion! This latest installment of the best-selling Pokémon TCG contains more than 150 cards and features new Pokémon SP and new Pokémon LV.X including Rayquaza, Garchomp and more!

- Collect Dragon-type Pokémon including Charizard and Rayquaza
- Discover new Pokémon LV.X including Charizard, Garchomp, and Blaziken
- More Pokémon SP including Frontier Brain’s Pokémon and Champion’s Pokémon

The San Jose Mercury News has an article on their local Pokemon champion:

Jeremy Fan is forbidden to play Pokémon, except on Saturdays. Kind of an ironic rule for an 11-year-old San Jose boy who is the new world Pokémon video champion.

But Jeremy’s father actually thinks the hard-line restrictions worked in his son’s favor.

“The discipline really made him focus,” said Jian Fan, who works at Hewlett-Packard in research and development. “It’s not like he was just playing every day for no purpose. He had to use his time wisely.”

The soon-to-be seventh-grader at Quimby Oak Middle School beat out more than 200 other players in his age group at the 2009 Pokemon World Championship in San Diego on Saturday and Sunday. Jeremy won a trophy, a customized Nintendo system and a trip for four to Hawaii, Tokyo or New York.

“I thought I might place top eight,” Jeremy said today from his home in the Evergreen Hills neighborhood. “But not first place. It feels strange. Good strange.”

 

The Arizona Daily Star wrote an article on Steve Wasserloos, who came in third in the Pokemon Video Game World Championships:

One of the world’s best “Pokémon” players lives in Tucson.

Web designer Steve Wasserloos, 24, placed third in the senior division (those born in 1997 or before) Saturday at the Pokémon Video Game World Championships in San Diego. He was one of 16 Americans who competed against one another as well as 14 others from Europe and Japan. He won a custom Nintendo DSi game system and a “Pokémon” prize package worth $750.

Wasserloos said he very easily could have won it all.

“It was pretty close,” Wasserloos said. “It basically came down to luck in the end. It really could have gone either way.”

To get to the worlds, Wasserloos had to beat more than 3,000 competitors in a regional competition in Phoenix in May and the national tournament in St. Louis in July.

 
Also, GamePro has a good in-depth article on the World Championships and the contestants.

Press Release:

San Diego, CA – August 17, 2009 – Traveling from over 25 countries and six continents, more than 1,125 players ages 6 to 55 competed for the chance to be crowned the best Pokémon TM players in the world this weekend in downtown San Diego, CA. Hosted by The Pokémon Company International, the worldwide leader in video games and trading card games, the Pokémon World Championships gave the highest-skilled players from around the world a chance to compete for the prestigious title of World Champion, as well as travel packages, custom Nintendo game systems, trophies, and more than $100,000 in scholarships. The two-day championship event emphasized the skill, strategy, creativity and fun involved in playing the Pokémon Trading Card and video games.

The top 60 video game players from the United States, Japan and Europe earned an invitation to participate in the Pokémon Video Game World Championships by defeating hundreds of challengers in qualifying tournaments held across the globe. The top finishers in each age division (Junior and Senior) each received a grand prize that includes a custom Nintendo DSTM game system, automatic entry in and travel to the 2010 Pokémon Video Game World Championships for a chance to defend the title, and a six-day vacation package for four to Tokyo, New York City, or Oahu. The winners include:

2009 Pokémon Video Game World Champions
Junior Division (born in 1997 or later)
First Place: Jeremy Fan (Age 11) from Sante Fe, California USA
Second Place: Santa Ito (Age 9) from Japan

2009 Pokémon Video Game World Champions
Senior Division (born in 1996 or earlier)
First Place: Kazuyuki Tsuji (Age 25) from Japan
Second Place: Tasuku Mano (Age 15) from Japan

The top 350 TCG players from more than 25 countries qualified for the invite-only Pokémon Trading Card World Championships by spending countless hours preparing and battling though a season of city, state, regional and national tournaments. Each of the three first place TCG finishers received a grand prize that includes a paid trip and invitation to defend their title at the 2010 TCG World Championships, as well as a scholarship worth $7,500. In total, the value of the scholarships divided amongst the TCG participants from 1st through 16th place in all age divisions totaled more than $100,000. After two full days and over twelve hours of fierce one-on-one TCG battles, three winners were crowned in each age group, including:

2009 Pokémon Trading Card Game World Champions
Junior Division (born in 1998 or later)
First Place: Tsubasa Nakamura, (Age 9) from Japan
Second Place: Jason Martinez, (Age 11) from Glendale, California USA
Third Place: William Shand, (Age 11) from Colorado Springs, CO

2009 Pokémon Trading Card Game World Champions
Senior Division (born in 1994-1997)
First Place: Takuto Itagaki, (Age 12) from Japan
Second Place: David Cohen, (Age 14) from Kent, Washington USA
Third Place: Nicolas Fotheringham, (Age 15) from United Kingdom

2009 Pokémon Trading Card Game World Champions
Masters Division (born in 1993 or earlier)
First Place: Stephen Silvestro, (Age 20) from Citrus Springs, Florida USA
Second Place: Sammi Sekkoum, (Age 20) from United Kingdom
Third Place: Jay Hernung, (Age 20) from Madrid, Iowa USA

Over the past 13 years, Pokémon has established its prominence as one of the top children’s franchises in history. In 2009, the Pokémon animated series will be broadcast in as many as 153 countries in more than 25 languages. The Pokémon video game series has sold more than 191 million games worldwide and The Pokémon Trading Card Game is the No. 1 collectible trading card game of all-time having more than 46,000 active members worldwide.

For more information, please visit: http://www.go-pokemon.com/worlds

The official Japanese Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver website has been updated with new videos. The games will be released in Japan on September 12, 2009, and will release in the US/Europe in Spring 2010.

Here’s a Pokemon comic from Hoshika, one of our members at the PE2K Forum. You can view more of Hoshika’s art here: Hoshika’s Art Gallery