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GAME has a listing for a "Exclusive Edition" for £69.99! They haven't put any details of what's included up yet though, unless it's just the Classic Controller Pro and Wii Speak bundle.

It's out here 2 weeks later so I'm going to wait. Plus I'll get the preorder figures.

I've had mine preordered since last year's E3 :P

Pikachu-coloured Pichu UK event information has been announced! It'll be distributed via Nintendo Wi-fi from 5th March until 25th March and will active the Spiked Ear Pichu event in Heart Gold and Soul Silver. Source: Official Pokemon Site

So that's why I never found a Pikachu that knows Surf or Fly, I didn't know there was different groups .

Got an e-mail from GAME saying ethy are going to process my order early. Does that mean I'll get the game early, or are they just processing my order early and shipping it later?

The moon was destroyed at the end of Majora's Mask, it can't be the same moon.

A lot of the humour is very Akira Toriyama-esque (like the Puff-Puff jokes), he seems to have a bit more influence on the series than just the character designs.

ESRB confirms that there are at least 4 episodes:

Went to preorder it from HMV and they've gona and bumped the price up £10, now it's £39.99, it was £29.99 before. They also have a listing for the classic controller bundle for £45.

Amazon have a listing for a 3D case edition. Anyone know what these are, Amazon are using the same image as the regular box for now? Pokemon Heart Gold 3D casing

Yeah, but it's the "T" I'm upset about the most, I can take losing the giant tree seed thing, but the sword "T" is a Dragon Quest tradition.

Yep. Only played the first few stages and I like it. Great for pick up and play for 5 minutes or something. Plus it's only 200 points (although annoyingly I had to buy 1000 points in order to download it). You have to destroy all the ghosts in a stage by throwing bombs into their mouths (why they are floating there with their mouths wide open just waiting for someone to throw a bomb in their mouth, I don't know. And how does a bomb destroy a ghost? ) with a limited number of bombs. If you destroy a ghost you get a new bomb. You can't move the bird at the bottom of the screen, you can only change the angle of which he throws the bomb. Of course you need to bounce bombs of the wall and obstacles in order to get the harder to reach ghosts. Later stages adds furniture to the level (literally!) which of course makes ghosts harder to hit, but you can also use them to hit the ghost with your bomb (like bouncing your bomb of the top of a table). You also have a powerup bomb which if you hit a ghost with one, it will explode into loads of smaller bombs and bounce around the screen and possibly take out more ghosts. Like I said, I'm only a few stages in so I'm sure there are some other mechanics left to discover.

I think they should have kept the "T" as a sword though. Looking at it again, I think it does look nice actually.

I'm getting the 360 version :P

Here's why:

Ah. GAME, Play and HMV says the 19th. Amazon still says the 12th. Quick google search bring sup nothing on an exact date.

None for Europe as far as I know. When NoE announced the bundle they only mentioned the black pro. Might have to import a white one from Japan.

Ah no. I meant not having free online.

Aw. They changed the logo I like the Japenese on better. EU release is "first half" 2010, that mean we might be getting before the US?

Debating on pre-ordering it. Are we getting a white classic controller pro bundle or is it still only the black one, is the Pro even needed to play it? Free online was pretty much a deal breaker for me.

Is that the official release date, because I heard it was the 5th and then the 12th and your saying the 17th (though that's a Wednesday). I preordered the limited edition version from Amazon when it was ~£33 and now it's £39 on Amazon.

US version is due out in "summer", since Nintendo are publishing I'm a bit concerned about the EU release. SE were good with IV and V getting the EU and US versions out the same week or near enough, so I'm hoping Nintendo will do the same.

No. They'll just reconfirm the release date.

They need stuff for E3 you know. America and Australia just found out the release date for the DSi XL, Nintendo aren't gonna announce a new DS the same day.