Matt's Normal Gym

This is the last one ... maybe ...

Steel Badge

How do yall like this one?

The Dark Gym Badge

Ok this time it has nothing to do with my personal logo. Right now, I'm considering the name "Corona Badge" or "Eclipse Badge". I'm leaning towards the first. I should have made it red since I like my Coronas with Grenadine. Comments ...

Fire Badge?

I know I said I wanted to avoid anything that looked too obviously fiery, but I was playing around for a little while and came up with this and honestly I like the design enough to have it as my fire badge. Problem is.. what to call it? The REAL fire badges are the Volcano and the Heat badge.. Maybe this is the Burn Badge? Eruption Badge? Flame Badge? R.C.'s Awesome Badge For Beautiful People Badge?

Been a while, and I want a tank

Hey hey! Saw a bunch of you at 32 Bit Gen, and I promised to post on here more, so here it is.

I want to make a crazy damage absorbing Wailord, but I'm stumped as to whether to give it more defense, or more HP. Would a defense stat be more effective than it having an obscene amount of HP, taking into account weakness and such, or would high spec def and def be a better option? And if HP wouldn't be a good idea, then damn, who would ever opt for that over defense?

Warning...Completely Unrelated to Pokemon

So I'm checking my email and Nintendo's newsletter about new releases for Wiiware and the Virtual Console is among the emails I needed to open. When I did, lo and behold there was a description for a new Wiiware game I'm pretty sure some of us are going to find it very hard to resist (although at the moment of writing this I've yet to download it myself).

Let me cut to the chase, as seen here there is a new game featuring none other than Homestar Runner. I'm not completely sure how this will work, but the site makes it appear that there will be 4 more updates to this game after this initial one, or more likely there will be 4 other "sequels" released on Wiiware later. I'm not really sure what the point of the game is, but then again does it really matter???

New Card

I was working on a new card for the league. I was having trouble comming up with ideas, so for right now its pretty much just a higher quality version of what we already have. My idea was to put pokeballs at the end of the little banner thing and then put gym badges as a boarder or something like that. But being that only one has been made so far(I am going to work on a fire one soon, too) the badges are out for right now.

Weekend Challenge

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/08/bricksmith_version_20.html

Make a Pokemon Lego set. ...... GO!!!

Do we finally get a Pokemon DS?

According to Kotaku and a couple other sources, Game Stop employees have informed them of a new item comming out soon. No date was given however. The Black Dialga/Palkia DS Lite should be sold as a Game Stop exclusive item, priced at 129.99, but its not just the DS! It also comes with the Mystery Dungeon DVD, a carrying case, a poster and a t-shirt.

Considering 129.99 is the price of a normal DS, this is a great deal. So If you have been meaning to get another DS, or upgrade to a DS Lite... this is the time to do it. I'm just not sure if I want to do it myself as I already have two DS, but I sure would like the goodies that come with it.

Pokemon Platinum

Okay, so chances are we won't see hide nor hair of this game until some time next year, but here is the official yahoo countdown site for the Japanese release featured here. I guess there may be some among us who can actually read what's on the site, but the main reason I posted the link is because the teaser video they show is particularly cool.

If the game were to open with the animation used in the beginning of the video, that would be more than enough reason in my mind to get it, but I also like the change of animation for the sprites when they're sent out into battle. Pikachu's animation alone makes me want to train one to transfer over to Platinum!