Pokémon fans are being offered another chance to get a free Pokémon starting this Saturday, February 27, at Gamestop. Anyone who brings in their Nintendo DS with a copy of Pokémon Pearl, Diamond or Platinum will be able to receive the free gift. Jirachi, a dual-type Steel/Psychic legendary Pokémon,  is available until March 13. A nice bonus since March 14 is the release of the new Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver bundles. Anyone that takes advantage of the free Pokémon will have access to a special training route on the Pokéwalker, the pedometer accessorie included with the new games.

Remember my Level Up post about Pokemon? Well, looks like I will have to revise that in the book version thanks to this chick.

“21-year-old Lisa Courtney from Hertfordshire, UK, poses with her record breaking collection of Pokémon memorabilia for the launch of Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer’s Edition. At last count Lisa owned 12,113 different items. The new book is released on 21 January 2010”

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Hi, Justin Biegger here.  And I am here to help.  It’s been my observation and personal experience that as gamers we can achieve wonderful things in a game setting; we can beat giants, be millionaires, save the world and look BA while doing it. But, in the cold dark world that is “Real life” we might feel like we can’t do anything at all. Well, I am here to take the skills we have learned in videogames and apply them in real life to maximize your potential.

So let’s get the ball rolling with friendship. And what better game to apply to friendship than Pokemon?

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Do you remember the ancient Pocket Pikachu or perhaps the Pokémon Pikachu 2. Well if not they were essentially Pedometers that would reward you with Watts based on how far you walked. You would then use the Watts to feed your Pikachu. The concept was pretty neat actually and was a great time waster through High School.

Well with the March 14th release of Pokémon HeartGold and Pokémon SoulSilver the game will include a Pokéwalker. The Pokéwalker is an updated version of the previous released Pedometers. Instead of only having a Pikachu you can actually transfer any one Pokémon from any of the 2 games. Much like previous Pokémon Pedometers the more you walk the more Watts you get. The Watts are used within the Pokéwalker to encounter and catch wild Pokémon or search for hidden items, and can be transferred into Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver Versions to unlock new routes. The Pokémon in the Pokéwalker will gain experience points as the player walks, and can even go up one level when they are transferred back into the game. Players also can wirelessly connect two Pokéwalkers to trade items.

Looks like I’ll be picking up another Pokémon Game. I wonder how my old Pocket Pikachu and Pokémon Pikachu 2 are?? It’s been about 5 years sense I last fed them…… do the batteries last that long??

When I hear or see things like this guy preaching like this, I can’t help but think of the movie Waterboy.  I really wonder how much unbiased thought and research this guy did before concluding that Pokemon was the work of the devil.

When you can’t figure out a math problem, make sure to always draw a Pokemon that is super powerful.  In the instance above, the student failed by using a fire type Pokemon against his teachers’ water type Pokemon. Lessons have been learned.