PE2K Podcast Episode Weedle!
After a nightmare of an editing process (don’t ask), the podcast is finished and ready for your listening ears. The live streamers got a few treats that had to be edited out, so I apologize for the lack of length for the non-live streamers. Perhaps that’s just more incentive to be here when we’re recording, eh? ReclusiveDemon joined us this week, along with Dan, Zach, Mitch, Eric, and myself for one of my favorite shows yet. Hope you all enjoy it as much as we did!.

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The official Pokemon Platinum website has posted screenshots of Arceus. Information on when on how to get Arceus will be revealed at a later date.

VIZ Media announces the release of the Pokemon Poster Collection:

VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCES THE POKÉMON POSTER COLLECTION
Special Release Contains 11 Full Color Posters Depicting Pikachu And All His Unique Friends From POKÉMON DIAMOND AND PEARL

San Francisco, CA, September 15, 2009 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, will delight young as well as adult fans with the release of the company’s first POKÉMON poster collection today! The POKÉMON “posterzine” is rated ‘A’ for All Ages and carries an MSRP of $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 CAN.

Packed with 11 full color fold-out posters, this large (16” x 22”) edition is a must-have for any fan of Pikachu and his friends. A variety of favorite characters from the POKÉMON DIAMOND AND PEARL animation seasons, from Pikachu and Piplup to Chimchar and Turtwig, are all featured.

“POKÉMON is a timeless favorite that continues to delight multiple generations of fans with its mix of adventure, unique and loveable characters, and a positive storyline,” says Gonzalo Ferreyra, Vice President Sales & Marketing, VIZ Media “Our POKÉMON poster collection will be available exclusively at participating newsstands, major bookstores, discount, and video stores and adds a fun and decorative component to customize any fan’s personal space.”

VIZ Media’s five 2007 POKÉMON releases have sold more than 635,000 units since March 2009.

It has been announced that the 2010 Pokemon World Championships will be held on Saturday, August 14th, and Sunday, August 15th. And for those that want to push your luck on Friday the 13th, the Pokemon TCG Last Chance Qualifier will be kicking off the events on Friday the 13th.

The 2010 Pokemon World Championships will be held at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island of Hawaii. Th event was previously held there back in 2007.

The next Pokemon TCG expansion, Pokemon TCG: Platinum—Arceus, will be released on November 4, 2009:

Announcing the Pokémon TCG Platinum—Arceus expansion, coming November 4th!

Stepping out of ancient times comes a Pokémon so mighty that legends say it shaped the Pokémon universe! On November 4th, 2009, Trainers everywhere can prepare to harness and wield the awesome power of the new legendary Alpha Pokémon Arceus with the arrival of the all-new Pokémon Trading Card Game: Platinum—Arceus expansion. Multiple Energy types of Arceus, such as Fire, Lightning, and Grass, will have opponents preparing for the devastation of fantastic new attacks.

With more than 100 cards in all, the brand-new Pokémon TCG: Platinum—Arceus will arrive in stores nationwide on November 4th, 2009.

Features of the new Pokémon Trading Card Game: Platinum—Arceus:
- Introducing the new Alpha Pokémon Arceus
- Collect multiple versions of Arceus—one of every single Energy type!
- Discover new Pokémon LV.X cards, including 3 Arceus LV.X!

Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver sold 1,480,980 copies in just two days in Japan. There are fears of shortages since it’s selling so well.

Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver will be released in the US in Spring 2010.

1UP posted an interview with the CEO of The Pokemon Company, Tsunekazu Ishihara. He talked about the need to come out with new features every time and also appealing to the old fans:

CEO of The Pokemon Company and producer on every Pokemon title since the original Red/Blue, the man is at the head of a worldwide game and licensing empire that’s produced billions in revenue — and his outfit’s latest release, Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver, is hitting Japan on September 12.

There was, to say the least, a lot of pressure behind this project, a pair of remakes for the Game Boy Color’s Pokemon Gold/Silver. “Gold/Silver was released when Pokemon was a watchword across the entire world, when everybody was expecting everything from it,” Ishihara told Famitsu magazine this week. “We wanted to outclass it, and that gave us quite a lot of pressure. We have to make people say that this is new, that it’s awesome, or else there’s no point. That’s why HG/SS has new features in every field. It’s packed with new stuff, and I think both the developers and the players are going to be satisfied.”

One of those new features is the PokeWalker, a free pack-in pedometer that communicates via infrared with the game and lets you unlock new items and creatures. “A wireless adapter was included with FireRed and LeafGreen, an attempt to advance the system’s multiplayer functionality,” Ishihara notes. “[Nintendo president Satoru] Iwata wanted us to implement something fresh for people playing through Red/Green for the second time, so that was the result after a trial-and-error process.

“This time, of course, he advised us that we had better make something that outclassed the wireless adapter,” he added with a laugh. “Of course, I love devices like these too — Iwata pushes us like this with every project; it’s part of the process that led to development.”

Kids may still be the primary target for Pokemon titles, but the adult audience is just as, if not more vital within Ishihara’s mind. “Appealing to old fans is an incredibly important theme for us,” he said. “People who played the games back then are now getting jobs at our company, and making games that keep them playing is totally key. We need them to feel that the DS games are better and packed with more stuff than ever before.”

If you ever been to a Pokemon tournament, you know very well that all walks of life play Pokemon. Kids, teens, adults, parents, grandparents, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and so on. You can also add America’s Next Top Model contestant Erin as a Pokemon fan as well:

“America’s Next Top Model” always likes to have at least one girl on the show that walks to the beat of her own drummer. This time, that girl just might be Erin.

The self-described “nerd” talks about playing Pokemon on the plane ride to start the competition and describes the audition process as “time-consuming.” She also uses dorky phrases like “All that jazz.”

“I’m here to play the game,” Erin says. “And I’m going to win the game because I’m good at games. Games are easy.”

Grace Beck has been getting a lot of media coverage, and she’s not even the champion. But she did surprise the competition and herself by making it to the semifinals at the 2009 Pokemon Video Game World Championships.

G4TV did an interview with Grace Beck:

G4: Grace, you started playing Pokemon competitively at this year’s Pokemon National Championships. How did you end up there?
Grace Beck: My cousin is Chris Tsai, who was the highest-ranking American Pokemon player in the World Championships last year. He was also one of the national champions. He had no luck during this year’s regionals, so he went to the nationals in St. Louis to enter as a last-chance qualifier. He and his mom invited me, just to see everyone and hang out. They know I like Pokemon as well, so they thought it would be fun to spend time with everyone. I entered to play because I’m more of a Pokemon collector and the tournament organizers were giving out a rare Pokemon if you entered to play in the tournament. Not intending to play in the tournament thinking I’d never get through the random draw — there were hundreds of people there — I went to register just so I could get the giveaway Pokemon. [laughs]

G4: And you ended up placing third and qualifying for the National Championships!
Beck: [laughs] Yeah! My number was drawn and so was Chris’s, so I was in a panic because I didn’t know what to do. On the fly, Chris traded me a team. I asked for something a cat with a stylus could use. I asked for something easy. He had been preparing for the tournament for months and had a lot of teams available. He just gave me one on the fly. He traded it to me minutes before the first round began.

G4: I heard that you felt a little ashamed of winning the nationals.
Beck: I felt like…I didn’t deserve any of it. When compared to people like Chris and a lot of other friends he has, they’ve been preparing for months or years for this event — just testing out different strategies in the game — and here I am, a total newbie in terms of battling. I never battled an actual person before that day. I’m going in. It’s my first battle. I’m just goofing off and taking silly pictures. And at the end of the day I was 5-0, finishing at the top of my bracket.

Pokemon.com confirmed and announced the next Pokemon movie: Arceus and the Jewel of Life. The title was previously announced at the Locarno International Film Festival.

A Tale Untold. A Legend Unleashed.

Get ready for the latest Pokémon movie, Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life! This final installment in a three movie story arc reveals that the Legendary Arceus is at the center of the recent disruptions in the Pokémon World. First the epic battle that threatened to tear a hole in the space-time continuum took place between Dialga and Palkia. Then Giratina, the sole defender of the Reverse World, had to take action to protect the precarious balance of its home and the Pokémon World. Now, Michina Town is at the heart of the action. The town has a long history and checkered past in relation to the mighty Arceus—after Arceus granted the townspeople some of its power as the Jewel of Life, they betrayed the Pokémon!

Ash and his friends, accompanied by their new companion Sheena, travel in time with Dialga’s help to right the mistakes of the town’s ancestors before the world crumbles under the power of Arceus’s rage. Will they be able to fix the mistakes of the past? What really happened in the past — did Sheena’s ancestors truly betray Arceus? Watch the stunning finale to the trilogy when all of the secrets of the previous two movies will be revealed!

Keep checking back for more details leading up to the big premiere!