“Meitantei Conan & Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo: Meguru au futari no  Meitantei”

「名探偵コナン&金田一少年の事件簿 めぐりあう2人の名探偵」

The game’s system is similar to the Detective Conan Nintendo DS games and Capcom’s Gakuten Saiban (Ace Attorney) Nintendo DS series.

The game is set as Shounen Sunday’s and Shounen Magazine’s 50th anniversary. Another 50th anniversary special is “Nettou! Dream 9!”. Sports characters from both magazines (but also including Meitantei Conan) will be featured in the Nintendo DS game “Shounen Sunday VS Shounen Magazine: Nettou! Dream 9!”

STORY:

The game will be a special story between Meitantei Conan & Kindaichi, which both of them will work on solving a mystery.

VIDEO:

SCREENSHOTS:

“Meitantei Conan & Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo: Meguru au futari no Meitantei”

Publisher: BANDAI NAMCO GAMES

Genre: Adventure

System: Nintendo DS

Release Date: 2009.02.05 (2009 February 5th)

Product NO.: NTR-P-C7KJ

Links:

Official web site

http://www.bandaigames.channel.or.jp/list/conan_and_kindaichi/

Impress GAME WATCH: バンダイナムコ、DS「名探偵コナン&金田一少年の事件簿 めぐりあう2人の名探偵」 あらすじ＆序盤のストーリーを公開

http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20081226/kk.htm

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Sky Exploration Team

(Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Sora no Tankentai)

「ポケモン不思議のダンジョン 空の探検隊」

Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Sora no Tankentai

The game will feature a new story of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon with new characters!

The starter Pokemon of the game are:

Lucario, Eevee, Vulpix, Phanpy, and Shinx

“Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Sora no Tankentai”

Release Date: Spring 2009
Genre: Dungeon RPG
Console: Nintendo DS

Official website:

http://www.pokemon.co.jp/game/ds/dungeon2009/

Link：

Gpara.com:　新エピソード収録！『ポケモン不思議のダンジョン 空の探検隊』今春発売

http://www.gpara.com/article/cms_show.php?c_id=11280&c_num=14

North America:
Case Closed -One Truth Prevails-: The Mirapolis Investigation (Sometime 2009)
U.K:
Case Closed -One Truth Prevails-: The Mirapolis Investigation (February 2009)
France:
Detective Conan: Enquête à Mirapolis (2009/01/31)
Italy:
Detective Conan: Il caso Mirapolis (2009/02/06)
Spain:
Detective Conan La Investigacion De Mirapolis (2008 November)
Germany:
Detektiv Conan – Die Mirapolis-Ermittlung　 (2009/01/29)

The European release of the game includes English & Japanese Audio tracks. The game text is available in English, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch.

Something confusing is the cover released in the official web site is different than the cover shown in the Nobilis site and fan sites!
*Note: The game release dates are from the official web site, fan sites, Amazon and various shopping sites cited below. Various sources including the official web site did not mention the date in specific, and various shopping sites and fan sites reported different release dates.

Video: Trailers & Gameplay

Video: Nobilis Detective Conan Wii Event

Official links:
Official “Detective Conan: The Mirapolis Investigation” European web site
http://www.detectiveconan-thegame.com/

Official Japanese web site:
http://www.mmv.co.jp/special/game/wii/conan/

Nobilis
http://www.nobilis-france.com/index_en.html

Fan sites & Online stores:

Geek Inc: Detective Conan : Enquête à Mirapolis　(French)

http://www.geekinc.fr/2009/01/14/detective-conan-enquete-a-mirapolis

Adventruegameshop:Detective Conan: Il Caso Mirapolis (Nintendo Wii)　(Italian)

http://www.adventuregameshop.com/product_info.php?products_id=602&osCsid=50ab474c9572bf4c02809

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the popular Manga magazines: SHOUNEN SUNDAY and SHOUNEN MAGAZINE characters will meet in the Nintendo DS Game “SUNDAY x MAGAZINE: Nettou DREAM NINE!” !

The Baseball Nintendo DS game will include characters from over 40 manga series from Shounen Sunday and Shounen Magazine Over 400 characters will appear in the game! 150 of them are playable!  Notable series are “Detective Conan”, “TOUCH”, “H2″, and “MAJOR” .

The game will also include a STORY MODE in which there will be manga scenes! Some of the manga scenes will be in color.

The game will be released by Konami Digital Entertainment, and it will be based on Konami’s popular game series “POWER PRO”. The game is a spin-off of Konami’s Power Pro series.

Video:

The Commercial trailer of the game marked the game as “Shounen SUNDAY x Shounen MAGAZINE x POWER PRO”!

SUNDAY x MAGAZINE: Nettou! DREAM NINE

サンデー×マガジン　熱闘！ドリームナイン

System: Nintendo DS

Genre: Sports

Players: 1~2 Players

Release Date: 2009.02.26

Publisher: Konami

Buy Online from Play-Asia!

Links:

SUNDAY x MAGAZINE: Nettou Dream Nine! Official website

http://www.konami.jp/sunmaga/bb/

Konami’s “POWER PRO” series official web site

http://www.konami.jp/gs/game/pawa/

Konami’s press release

http://www.konami.jp/topics/2008/1126_2/index.html

Nintendo DS Pokemon Platinum (USA-North America)

The game is released concurrently with the North American release of the Pokemon Platinum movie: Giratina and the Sky Warrior. Featuring the debut of Giratina and Shaymin in the Pokemon Diamond & Pearl series.

The game was originally released in Japan on 13th of September 2009 as “Pocket Monsters Platinum”. The game is third part of the Pokemon Diamond & Pearl game series. It is basically a modified version of Pokemon Diamond & Pearl with new features!

New Pokemon Forms

• The debut of Giratina’s Origine and Another Forme
• Shaymin’s Sky and Land Forme
• New forms of Rotom!
• Ability to capture both of Dialga & Palkia
• Ability to capture Zapdos, Moltres and Articuno!

New Design

• New Storyline! With new characters!
• New Area! a 3D Area “The Reverse World” (The Torn World)
• New Design for cities
• New Animations for Pokemon Sprites and for the cities.
• New players outfits
• New GYM Puzzles
• Newly designed tools (such as Poketech)

Pokemon Platinum also features a new GTS (Global Trade Station), which features:

• Trade-and-seek pokemon from friends
• Battle Video Recorder to record battle videos. Videos can be uploaded online to the Online Battle Ranking on the Nintendo DS!
• Wi-Fi Plaza with Online mini games!
• 4 Players voice chat! (In Pokemon Diamond & Pearl, only two players could voice chat)
• Battle Frontier (as in Pokemon Emerald)

Pokemon Platinum Fan site: http://pokemondiamondpearl.info/platinum/

The series will be titled “TWIN PRINCESS PRINCIPESSE GEMELLE” and will start airing from Monday, January 19th 2009.  The series will be broadcasted from Monday to Friday at 17:50 (Rome).

Youtube video: Twin Princess Principesse Gemelle Pubblicità- Dal 19 Gennaio alle 17.50 su Italia 1!

Chibi Maruko Chan DS: Maru chan no machi

Release Date: 2008 February 5th

Publisher: BANDAI NAMCO GAMES

Console: Nintendo DS

http://www.maruko-ds.com/

The shop is designed  offers various goods of Sanrio characters, mostly of the worldwide famous cat: Hello Kitty.

Sanrio has also a branch in Dubai, which I guess was the first branch in the Middle East.

Location: Bahrain City Center, Third floor

Disney has released a DVD Box set “The Little Mermaid – Triology” featuring the three animated Little Mermaid movies:

• “The Little Marmaid” (1989)
• “The Little Mermaid: Return to the Sea”
• “The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning” (2008): the newest Little Mermaid movie which is a prologue to the first movie.

Release Date: December 16 2008 (North America)

Image Credit: Amazon.com

New Pokemons are confirmed! 59 New Rumoured Pokemon?!

Besides the silhouetes that were announced in the official Japanese web site, TV Tokyo’s Pokemon Program “Pokemon Sunday” confirmed that Giratina’s Shinnoh Pokedex entry will be 210!

59 New Pokemon to the existing 110 Shinnoh Pokemon (Total of 493) of Diamond & Pearl?

New Pokedex design:
The Official Yahoo! Kids Pokemon Platinum web site released two videos one featuring the new designed Pokedex!

Image of PokemonPlatinum.net

Pokemon Diamond Pearl .info: Pokemon Platinum
http://www.pokemondiamondpearl.info/platinum/