Pokemon Platinum, Fire Emblem, tons more Q1 releases officially dated!
by JC Fletcher 
{ Dec 17th 2008 at 10:30AM }
In third-party news, we're thrilled to see a January 6 release date for Retro Game Challenge -- except that according to the list, it'll be competing with Big Bang Mini. Atlus's My World, My Way is on its way February 3, with Legacy of Ys following on the 10th, and Trackmania on March 17.
GTA Chinatown Wars has yet to be dated in this release, but we know it's March 17. And Monster Band from DreamCatcher: could it be Music Monstars? Is that just for us?
Check the post break for the full list!
Gallery: Pokemon Platinum
Activision
Monsters vs. Aliens - March 24
Pimp My Ride 2™ - March 24
Animal Planet™ - March 10
Atlus U.S.A., Inc.
My World, My Way™ - Feb. 3
Legacy of Ys™: Books I & II - Feb. 10
Trackmania™ DS - March 17
Crave Entertainment
Monster Pals ™ - March
D3Publisher of America
Puzzle Quest™: Galactrix™ - Q1
Coraline - January
Destineer
USA TODAY Puzzle Craze - January
DinoPets - March
Disney Interactive Studios
Phineas and Ferb - Winter
DreamCatcher
Inkheart - January
Learn Math - January
Drivers' Ed Portable - January
Monster Band - January
Zoo Quest - February
My Personal Diary - February
Music Star: Pop Star - February
Paint by DS - March
Matchstick - March
Dreamer: Top Model - March
Sarah - Keeper of the Unicorn - March
Learn Chess - March
Dragon Master - April
Electronic Arts
Zubo™ - March
Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure™ - Q1
SimAnimals™ - Jan. 27
Empire Interactive
Jagged Alliance - Feb. 17
Gameloft
American Popstar - Road to Celebrity - March 9
Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero™ - Q1
Suikoden Tierkreis - Q1
Little Magician's Magic Adventure™ - Q1
Majesco Entertainment
WonderWorld Amusement Park™ - January
Powerbike - January
Our House™ - Q1
Hot 'n' Cold - March
Marvelous Entertainment USA
Avalon Code - February
Flower, Sun, and Rain - March
Mastiff
Moon™ - Jan. 13
MumboJumbo
Chicken Hunter Star Karts - March 10
Nintendo
Personal Trainer™: Math - Jan. 12
Fire Emblem™: Shadow Dragon - Feb. 16
Pokémon™ Platinum version - March 22
ROCKSTAR GAMES
Grand Theft Auto™: Chinatown Wars - Winter
Southpeak Interactive
Big Bang Mini® - Jan. 6
Roogoo Attack™ - Feb. 17
Brave: Shaman's Challenge™ - Feb. 17
Square Enix, Inc.
FINAL FANTASY® CRYSTAL CHRONICLES®: Echoes of Time™ - Spring
THE GAME FACTORY
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES™ - Jan. 19
THQ
Paws & Claws Pampered Pets - Jan. 5
TOMY Corporation
My DoItAll™ - February
Ubisoft
Jake Power Fireman - January
Jake Power Policeman - January
Imagine™ Cheerleader - February
JoJo's Fashion Show - February
Petz® Horseshoe Ranch - February
Imagine™ Family Doctor - February
Imagine™ Ice Champions - March
Jake Power Handyman - March
My Fashion Studio Paris Collection - Feb. 17
American Popstar - Road to Celebrity - March 24
Broken Sword™: Shadows of the Templars (Director's Cut) - March
XSEED Games
Retro Game Challenge - Jan. 6
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Billy Magnum @ Dec 17th 2008 11:47AM
omg. how can anyone catch 'em all if they keep making more games. pokemon has to be the lamest thing ever.
HH @ Dec 17th 2008 12:00PM
^ Clearly you're a moron who has no idea what he is talking about, since this game introduce NO new Pokmons.
sleazy @ Dec 17th 2008 11:57AM
I love how people hate that there are more than 150 pokemon.
Come on, How many animals exist on earth?
I think of pokemon as the equivalent of animals in that word. even if there were 1,000 pokemon, that wouldn't be enough.
HH @ Dec 17th 2008 12:03PM
Yes. Also, what about those who already caught 'em all? If new games didn't introduce new Pokmon to collect, what would they buy them for?
hvnlysoldr @ Dec 17th 2008 12:50PM
Obviously for battling
Shoyz @ Dec 17th 2008 3:08PM
The problem with the battling idea is that they make literally NO improvements to the Battle System.
Hell, Ruby to Diamond only gave us animations.
bluezy @ Dec 17th 2008 1:24PM
Trackmania and GTA on the same day? Ugh, my wallet be crying.
chispito @ Dec 17th 2008 2:19PM
I've got a flashcart. Trackmania isn't that spectacular. It's too hard to see ahead on the track so you can react in time.
Zealot @ Dec 17th 2008 1:34PM
Great Q1 for the DS. I'm already sold on Moon, Fire Emblem, and Avalon Code, and I'll probably add at least Pokemon Platinum, Suikoden Tierkreis, Henry Hatsworth, and/or My World, My Way to that list.
I'm especially glad about this because the Wii didn't fare as well. No Disaster or Fatal Frame IV means no Q1 waggling for me.
Zealot @ Dec 17th 2008 5:23PM
Augh, how could I forget to mention Flower, Sun, and Rain? I've been looking forward to this game forever.
Also, Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled, Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds Stardust Accelerator: World Championship 2009 and Lux-Pain aren't on this list anywhere, but according to current info they should be out in February, February, and March respectively.
aj @ Dec 17th 2008 7:56PM
I'm starting to think Black Sigil is never coming.
Zealot @ Dec 17th 2008 9:32PM
Actually, there's hope. Check this out: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=944570&topic=46863524
I know Gamefaqs is generally a horrible cesspool of inbred, flesh-eating trolls, but Black Sigil is so niche and so obscure that its board is mostly populated by people who actually care about the game. I only lurk there so I don't know if any of these people are infamous liars, but if the information from this person is true, it's Q1 2009 for sure unless Graffiti screws them over at the last moment.
Billy Magnum @ Dec 17th 2008 1:37PM
^ha..struck a pokenerve. guessing you caught them all...and still going...now catch a life.
hvnlysoldr @ Dec 17th 2008 1:50PM
Go Triple FINISH!
CJC @ Dec 17th 2008 2:16PM
Or, you know, you could just be very WRONG.
BlackDS @ Dec 17th 2008 7:44PM
Billy Magnum = Poke Troll.
Don't feed the troll.
Ihar `Philips` Filipau @ Dec 17th 2008 2:10PM
> Jagged Alliance
zomg... it was already more than 10 years.... - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagged_Alliance
played it quite a lot in university times.
Roman @ Dec 17th 2008 4:08PM
Looks like 2009 is going to be the year I go broke.
tim b. @ Dec 17th 2008 2:31PM
I need a second job :)
Matias @ Dec 17th 2008 2:47PM
OMG between the wii games of february and march, and all the feebruary games on the ds, I won't have money to eat xD.
I mean, 2 awesome atlus game, Ys (!!!!!) nad My world, my way (the webpage is win, specially the pout button). Marvelous with avalon code. SE with FFCC (the only FF that I like along with tactics, the main series is died for me after VI). And I hope Konami releases suikoden a bit later, because I won't have any money left for it >_> (maybe it's interchangeable with FFCC). Maybe I will import ragnarok ds too.
I already have fire emblem (thanks region free ds).
I'm not interested in pokemon. I catched them all in yellow (except for mew, wich a friend got years later for crystal, but ]I already sold my pokemon silver by then), I also catched them all in silver (again, except for celebi and mew). And I catched them all in ruby (except for deoxys and jirachii). I got every pokemon from the first 3 generations, why I would want more, the games peaked in GSC anyways.
Matias @ Dec 17th 2008 2:49PM
god, between erasing and writing, I commited so much mistakes, like "the mains series is died", lol, or nad (wtf, I'm sure I wrote and)
BlackDS @ Dec 17th 2008 7:51PM
Almost everytime I read a thread on a new pokemon game, there is some loser talking about Gold, Silver, Crystal.
Here's some advice. No matter how many times you mention Gold, Silver, Crystal, Game Freak will NOT remake GSC or let you transfer your GSC pokemon to the current generation.
GSC is an evolutionary dead end ... so just deal with it, and stop constantly posting stuff about GSC. We don't care. Game Freak doesn't care.
Peace.
Zealot @ Dec 17th 2008 9:24PM
Sorry, but "peace" my ass. You call anyone who wants a GSC remake a loser and then give some wishy-washy reasoning about the series being a "dead end", whatever that means, and Game Freak just plain not caring? I have a strange feeling you're using "Game Freak" as a rather unusual personal pronoun for "I".
If it irks you so much that lots of people considered it the pinnacle of the Pokemon franchise and would gladly replay them again on a new handheld with updated features, graphics, and compatibility with other current-gen Pokemon games, that's your problem and nobody else's. Just keep your $35 if you're that against the idea and let Nintendo make those of us who aren't strangely embittered toward GSC happy if they ever wish to do so.
BlackDS @ Dec 17th 2008 9:44PM
Zealot - you should take some anger management classes. And you're gonna need it, because Game Freak will NEVER bring back GSC. :)
Dream all you want ... Hater.
You GSC people are annoying as hell, learn to respect the rest of us and stop whining about something from 100 years ago.
NOT Peace to you Zealot.
Zealot @ Dec 18th 2008 11:07AM
My response was appropriate considering how irrational your rant was. If you really cared about peace, you wouldn't be insulting over something so inconsequential as people wanting a remake of a game they like. It's a needless and thoughtless invitation to discord; one which I accept only because it is in defense of many people.
BlackDS @ Dec 18th 2008 8:34PM
Zealot ...
Talk to the hand.
Sam @ Dec 17th 2008 3:35PM
Where is the next Professor Layton game!
Tim @ Dec 17th 2008 4:37PM
So far, the games that have immediately caught my attention consist of:
Pokemans* Platinum
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon
gta: Chinatown Wars
...and not mentioned on this list:
Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume
Steal Princess
*Off-topic: I just had to.
leonus @ Dec 17th 2008 4:54PM
everytime i see the releases for the Wii and DS games or 2009 my wallet cries! but then again my gamer soul rejoices and gets pumped for the games! still can't believe EU got Fire Emblem before the USA! my friends pirated the games and played them on the flashcarts (hence the reason i hate flashcarts) and tease me for not buying a flashcart. i swear it seems like if EU is getting alot more love then the US as of late! >:O
Brian E @ Dec 17th 2008 6:13PM
No Cid and Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon? I guess it really isn't coming to the US.
Tim @ Dec 17th 2008 7:19PM
I guess that it has to do with the Dungeon crawler/roguelike hardcore appeal--more likely the low sales-- here in the US that prompted Square Enix to forego Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon's potential US release.
aj @ Dec 17th 2008 8:02PM
But didn't the Wii version get released here?
I wish North Americans appreciated roguelikes more. It's not like you can claim one genre is stale and repetitive and one isn't. RPGs and FPS's are all in the same boat to awfultown, but people stills enjoy 'em.
aj @ Dec 17th 2008 7:59PM
Dragon Quest V, VI, and IX are all I care about this year.
austin @ Dec 17th 2008 8:20PM
How can you improve combat system?? Pokemon has a simple battle system-always has, I wouldn't want it any other way.
And i would actually buy this game if it wasn't an attempt to milk the franchise for more then its worth.
Shin @ Dec 17th 2008 10:39PM
Well this is exciting! Looking forward to My World, My Way, Ys, Suikoden Tierkries, Pokemon and... yes, Little Magician's Magic Adventure. 8D
Wasn't Kingdom Hearts dated for March or... was that just me mixing up the Feb Japanese release date?
Jedi_Liz @ Dec 17th 2008 10:42PM
I'll get platinum. I mean I own both Diamond and Pearl (Pearl was a copy bought used from gamefly) so I could get the exclusive to the version pokemon. Plus, Platinum will have a Battle Frontier like area.
'Our House' sounds interesting.
chibi_wings @ Dec 17th 2008 10:55PM
too many good games....my poor poor wallet =/
Well I know I'm picking up Fire Emblem, Avalon Code, Lux Pain, and Elebits for sure. But if I can I'll squeeze in some more games ^^
Game_playa @ Dec 18th 2008 5:48PM
Just get a Flash Cart
mko @ Dec 18th 2008 10:18AM
I played the japanese version and I can say it pretty much worths it.
garf2430 @ Dec 18th 2008 11:16AM
I wanna meet the guy who looks at Ubisoft's Q1 lineup and says "now that's a damn fine lineup!" so I can say "hey I have another suggestion for a game: 'Imagine: Ubisoft is A Joke(z).'"
1UPMASTER @ Dec 18th 2008 10:22PM
...no rhythm heaven?
PX @ Dec 21st 2008 5:00PM
hopefully i'll get a ds by the time platinum is out.
Nai @ Jan 19th 2009 9:15AM
I know I'm really late in commenting to this but I really feel like kicking Ubisoft over and over for continuously making gender stereotyped games. It's painfully obvious which games are directed towards girls and which are directed towards boys. As a girl that's always played "boy" games I find it offensive.