Pokémon Omega Ruby – gotta catch ’em all, again

Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire have just been announced for the 3DS, and will be out worldwide this November.

As Nintendo’s recent financial results show there’s no surer cash cow than Pokémon, with the recent mainline sequels X and Y selling over 12 million copies on the 3DS. And now the portable is getting a remake of one of the earlier Game Boy Advance entries.

X and Y are essentially Pokémon 6, whereas Ruby and Sapphire were Pokémon 3. The first mainline game to be released on a format other than the original Game Boy or its variants, they went on to become the best-selling game on the Game Boy Advance when they released in 2002 (2003 by the time they made it to the West).




There are virtually no details on the new versions, which will be the third time that Nintendo has remade one of the earlier games. It seems sensible to assume the graphics and underlying technology will be based on X and Y but so far no screenshots have been released, just the box shots you see here.

‘The new titles promise to take players through a dramatic story within a spectacular new world’, is the only even vaguely descriptive comment from Nintendo at the moment.

In other pokénews today the Pokémon TV app has just launched on iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire. It’s available to download for free and allows you to watch from a library of over 700 episodes of the Pokémon cartoon.

The library will be updated weekly and spans 16 seasons of the TV series, although we assume not that one episode that caused all the seizures in Japan. You’ll also be able to use the app to ‘watch special features, trailers, and Pokémon movie events’.

Pokémon Alpha Sapphire – we had Sapphire the first time around

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