But, Pokemon + Nobunaga’s Ambition seems to be a good game.
According to PokeBeach, it boasts 200 hours of gaming!
Its gameplay looks like a simulation/tactics game.

And yes, there are no new Pokemon news found.

Maybe, Pokemon Smash this coming weekend may announce/reveal something…

If not, then, we will wait for some CoroCoro leaks.

Another great Pokemon game should be around the corner now. We only need to wait. Patience is a virtue.

*If there are any discrepancies, please let me know.

Links:
Japanese Nintendo Direct
Nintendo Japan
English Nintendo Direct

It may be something related to Pokemon Gray or maybe, another spin-off game for the 3DS.
But to think that we already have Kyurem’s other forme and one of the last Pokemon in the PokeDex revealed, this may be the time for GF to reveal the third version of BW.

Let’s see what will happen tonight!

Mark your calendars as some sort of an announcement or maybe, a little update for Kyurem’s movie will be shown in the upcoming episode of Pokemon Smash.

The program is the sequel to Pokemon Sunday. Pokemon Sunday revealed information for new games.
Will this episode show that there will be something big?

Or is it only an official announcement for Keldeo?

We’ll see about that on Sunday!

We’ll be keeping an eye for more news!

As what the title implies, the next movie will revolve around the Musketeers and Kyurem where the latter will gain another forme much like what happened to Giratina (both of them being the third Dragon type legendary of their generation).

We will have to wait for a couple of months or so for us to see what forme will Kyurem boast.

We will also have to be patient as Gray version still is looming within darkness.

We will keep our eyes peeled!

This is the world’s first Pokemon WiFi tournament to accommodate all existing Black and White games (both English and Japanese games).

This is revealed by the Official Japanese Homepage (link).

The International Tournament where all players may join.
Registration Period: 00:00 JST, 15 MAR 2012 (23:00 PST, 14 MAR 2012)
End: 23:59 JST, 21 MAR 2012 (22:59 PST, 21 MAR 2012)

Tournament will start 00:00 JST, 22 MAR 2012 (23:00 PST, 21 MAR 2012)
End: 23:59 JST, 26 MAR 2012 (22:59 PST, 26 MAR 2012)

Mechanics:
Double Battles using your team registered in your Battle Box
Pokemon banned in random match-up are also banned in this tournament.
Rules from the previous tournaments (Autumn Friendly) are also in effect.

Limitation:
50,000 slots where 25,000 of these slots are allocated for Japanese players.
Better register early!

It’s not the end yet!

If you are a Pokemon trainer living in Japan with a Japanese version of the game, you may join their Japan Cup 2012 Spring Tournament (exclusive for Japanese players). This tournament will determine who’s gonna participate in Pokemon World Championship 2012.

I wish, we can also have an official Pokemon Tournament to determine who will represent the Philippines for this big event!

Good luck to those trainers who will participate!
Yeah!!

Probably, this forme of Kyurem will be revealed on its movie alongside the three Legendary Swordsmen (or Four, if you count Keldeo).

I can’t wait to see the movie!

And for some TCG yaps. I am amazed that Nintendo finally inducted the Dragon-type in the TCG.

It’s kinda amusing to see those shiny, sparkling, and shimmering cards with Dragon-typing. As you can see here and here, the energy requirements for Dragon-types still are the other present Energy types. Let’s see if a Dragon Energy will come out soon~

After you befriend Arceus, you can transfer it to your Black/White games by using Game Sync.

This Arceus will be only available for a limited time so get yours now!

Official News Link

No deadline date has been announced for this event as of now.

Credits to serebii.net/ for the screenshot

The Apocalyptic Year, you say? Ah, enough of the sad news! Ranger Paul is here to round up the year and give you guys a little something to look forward to in 2012 (in a PokéFan’s point of view, of course)!

1.) Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire Remakes and Pokémon Gray

Ah, of course. Everybody is now looking forward to these remakes. Just like in 2009 when Gold & Silver was about to recieve their own DS revivals; PokéFans around the world are now also desperately trying to link and point on different things (like the appearance of Character X in Game Y, therefore explains that an R/S Remake is plausible. Blah blah blah, yada yada…so on and so forth) just to solidify their assumptions that a Ruby & Sapphire remake is now in the works. Speculations aside, there have been no formal announcement from Game Freak and Nintendo just yet so hold your horses for now Blaziken fans!

The Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire 2003 Box Arts

But then again, 2012 might be a good year for RSE Fans, since the spin-off game — Pokémon Rumble Blast for the Nintendo 3DS was a major sales disaster (ugh), and it has already been 9 years since the release of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire for the GameBoy Advance; just 1 year shy of celebrating Ruby & Sapphire’s 10^th Year Anniversary (by the way, HeartGold and SoulSilver came out 10 years after the release of Gold and Silver for the GameBoy Color).

Wait, did I just say “9 years“??? I suddenly felt very old…

For the mean time, let’s just now wait for the upcoming Pokémon Gray (name still unofficial at this point) which has been hinted earlier  in the movie preview in today’s issue of CoroCoro. More about this in the next topic.

2.) The International Screening of the “Kyurem VS the Sacred Swordsmen” Movie

Pokémon Movie 15: Kyurem VS The Sacred Swordsmen Poster

As a Filipino Pokémon Fan, I still feel very frustrated about the fact that we will never get a chance to watch a Pokémon Movie at a cinema here in the Philippines (but who knows? Miracles can happen!) Good thing, we still have Cartoon Network…which airs the Pokémon series as slow as a Slowpoke and has an unexplained infatuation about THAT teenage boy who can transform himself into different alien beings…*sigh*

If you are an Animé Fan, then 2012 will be a good year to watch these Pokémon Movie right on your very own PERSONAL COMPUTER! *sigh*

Watch out for Kyurem’s Alternate Forme to debut in this movie (CoroCoro revealed this earlier, though still a bit vague at this point)!

Wait…what? GMA 7 will be airing the Tagalized Pokémon Animé Series AGAIN this year??? Well, that’s GREEEEEAAAAT (sarcasm)! I am about to turn 26 next year, and yet, we are still on the neverending Hoenn arc (correct me if I’m wrong…tell me that I lived under a rock and we are now on the SINNOH LEAGUE)! Argh! My goodness… *another sigh*

3.) Ranger Hunt III

Yes. Right. We, I mean “I” am still in need of a “new blood” (spare me the Twilight jokes, please). I’ve already spent 2 years trying to assemble a good Ranger Team, and yet, all I came up with is a bunch of college guys who can’t balance their studies and their responsibilities here at PKMN-ph. Not that I am blaming school for their inactivity. It’s just that, my comrades here might have probably lost that “touch” and are now too old for Pokémon… This might be a rant, but I am opening the doors of PKMN-ph.com once again to those aspiring members who can ACTIVELY support the site with their creativity and perseverance! I am not saying that the past 2 Ranger Hunt auditions were a failure… Why? Because it showed me that there are still a lot of people out there who are willing to support this aging Pokémon Fan Site. And this year, we hope we can finally find the missing piece/s to what could be the BEST RANGER TEAM ever since 2006, on our 3rd Annual Ranger Hunt!

Who will make it to the team this year? Stay tuned!

4.) 4th Official Ozine Fest Meetup

PKMN-ph held an impromptu meetup last December 27 at Trinoma and sadly, only 7 of us have participated in that event (2 Rangers, and 5 members). The number of people who attended the meetup is really a big disappointment (despite of the BIG number of Poll Voters on our official Facebook Fan Page) however, it was still enjoyable and meeting new friends “personally” in our community was such a great experience!

This 2012, we will be having our 4th Official Meetup on the annual Ozine Fest, and…maybe this time, the attendace will double compared to last year’s meetup! So mark your calendar (the event might fall on an April or a May), and wait for that important announcement this upcoming summer so that you can meet and greet (and probably, BATTLE and TRADE) with your fellow Pinoy Pokémon Fans! Check out the photo below and see how happy we were at this year’s Ozine Fest!

5.) Support for the TCG Community

When PKMN-ph was still new way back in 2006 (still under the name “pkmnph”), our ex-Rangers were actively participating in Pokémon TCG tournaments left and right across the country; doing news coverage all year long. Sadly, those times are gone. These past few years, the Pokémon video gaming scene suddenly exploded with the introduction of Pokémon Diamond & Pearl; along with its Wi-Fi capabilities that enabled players to play online with one another despite of their geographical differences. Since then, it was all VIDEO GAMES for PKMN-ph…

Our very own Ranger Deric (the one wearing an orange shirt) playing Pokémon TCG last December 30. Credits to stephen for the photo.

This upcoming year, we would like to go back to where we’ve started. The times when good old friends meet — shuffling their own decks, flipping coins, and duking it out on the play mat until a certain player scratches his head after a loss and ending it with a firm handshake with the other player. Expect to see PKMN-ph participating in those events next year, and who knows, you might get featured on our homepage after your tourney win!

6.) Now, where do we go from here?

Whew, that was a long chatter up there! I have enumerated all the possible things that a PokéFan like me (and you) could expect this coming year. However, I still believe that there are other things that I didn’t write about – the UNEXPECTED changes. As we all know, PKMN-ph.com is now the most resilient Pokémon Fan Site here in the Philippines – spanning 5 years of dedicated service to our fellow Pokémon Fans. We have undergone several major changes, and we have surpassed those other communities who have come and gone already. But we are now running out of gas. Some of THEM believed that 2012 must be our “last hurrah” and may now be on the verge of shutting down the site for good… But like I have said before: As long as there is a single Pinoy Pokémon Fan on the Internet, PKMN-ph will still be there! No matter whether you are a registered forum member or just a random Fan Page Liker — you are already a part of our community!

Nope. Let me correct that.

As long as you are a FILIPINO and you love Pokémon…then you are already a part of Pokémon Philippines!

Expect a lot of changes this 2012, and let’s all hope that these changes are for the good!

Welcome 2012! Happy New Year to all of us!

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