Thursday, April 30, 2009
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Pokemon Platinum
Pokémon Platinum
Most people have heard of the newest pokemon adventures that take place in the Sinnoh region. The pokemon Diamond and Pearl series has one more attachment, Pokemon Platinum, which was released in Japan last year. Pokémon Platinum, released in Japan as Pocket Monsters Platinum, is a title in the Pokémon series of video games. It is an enhanced remake of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl in the same vein as Pokémon Yellow, Crystal, and Emerald. It was released on September 13, 2008, in Japan, and was released in North America and Europe on March 22, and May 22, 2009.
The game features Giratina-a pokemon previously available in Diamond and Pearl as a minor character- as its mascot and introduces its Origin Forme, as seen in Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior. Its initial form is referred to as its “Altered Forme” (which you can capture in pokemon Diamond and Pearl) in the English localization, but originally called its “Another Forme” in the Japanese release. The storyline involves a disturbance at the peak of Mt. Coronet (Sinnoh’s largest mountain that divides the region in half), as a portal to the "Distortion World” is opened and Sinnoh's climate becomes colder. The trainers have been given new outfits to suit the colder climate. The Distortion World is a strange place in another dimension where normal physical laws do not apply. Time does not flow, pokemon (other than Giratina) are non existent, the space is ever expanding and retracting and gravity is very disturbed (gravity is no fun anyway).
The Battle Frontier, was originally not available to Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, is now available in Platinum after you defeat the elite four. Also, the battle castle, the battle arcade, and the battle hall are now available, in which you battle seven times in a row and if you are successful, you earn Battle points (BP for short)
Pokémon Platinum sold 1 million copies in its first two days on the Japanese market. According to Media Create, the game has sold 2 million copies in Japan as of December 7, 2008. So far it is the fastest selling Nintendo title. Pokémon Platinum is the second best-selling game of Japan in 2008, as well as the best-selling Nintendo DS game in Japan of that year, selling 2,187,337 copies.
Most people have heard of the newest pokemon adventures that take place in the Sinnoh region. The pokemon Diamond and Pearl series has one more attachment, Pokemon Platinum, which was released in Japan last year. Pokémon Platinum, released in Japan as Pocket Monsters Platinum, is a title in the Pokémon series of video games. It is an enhanced remake of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl in the same vein as Pokémon Yellow, Crystal, and Emerald. It was released on September 13, 2008, in Japan, and was released in North America and Europe on March 22, and May 22, 2009.
The game features Giratina-a pokemon previously available in Diamond and Pearl as a minor character- as its mascot and introduces its Origin Forme, as seen in Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior. Its initial form is referred to as its “Altered Forme” (which you can capture in pokemon Diamond and Pearl) in the English localization, but originally called its “Another Forme” in the Japanese release. The storyline involves a disturbance at the peak of Mt. Coronet (Sinnoh’s largest mountain that divides the region in half), as a portal to the "Distortion World” is opened and Sinnoh's climate becomes colder. The trainers have been given new outfits to suit the colder climate. The Distortion World is a strange place in another dimension where normal physical laws do not apply. Time does not flow, pokemon (other than Giratina) are non existent, the space is ever expanding and retracting and gravity is very disturbed (gravity is no fun anyway).
The Battle Frontier, was originally not available to Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, is now available in Platinum after you defeat the elite four. Also, the battle castle, the battle arcade, and the battle hall are now available, in which you battle seven times in a row and if you are successful, you earn Battle points (BP for short)
Pokémon Platinum sold 1 million copies in its first two days on the Japanese market. According to Media Create, the game has sold 2 million copies in Japan as of December 7, 2008. So far it is the fastest selling Nintendo title. Pokémon Platinum is the second best-selling game of Japan in 2008, as well as the best-selling Nintendo DS game in Japan of that year, selling 2,187,337 copies.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Forced Feature article
The Day After Tomorrow
BY: Miranda Rosaio
The Day After Tomorrow was movie released in 2004 and is all about the concerning conflict of the long term greenhouse effect. The world is sent into spiraling chaos as a massive storm strikes the U.S. At the center of the storm is the paleoclimatolagist (a professor dedicated to the study of weather patterns) Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) who takes on all the dangers of the world as it is sent into a second ice age. Before the chaos begins, Jack Hall’s son, Sam Hall (Jake Gyllenhaal) is attending an academic bowl in New York City. When the storm hits, Sam and a few others reside to the inside of a library. As everyone fights to stay alive, many people who managed to flee to the south try to figure out how to save the U.S. No one quite understands why the weather is being so chaotic until astronauts send down photographs of the storm from space. The storm is much worse than they realized.
The Day After Tomorrow was a smash hit at box offices, and won an award from The British Academy of Film and Television arts for having the best special effects of the year. I myself would definitely recommend this movie. It is an adventure, fantasy and action movie that can relate to the present day economy. (Don’t forget that it’s PG-13!)
BY: Miranda Rosaio
The Day After Tomorrow was movie released in 2004 and is all about the concerning conflict of the long term greenhouse effect. The world is sent into spiraling chaos as a massive storm strikes the U.S. At the center of the storm is the paleoclimatolagist (a professor dedicated to the study of weather patterns) Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) who takes on all the dangers of the world as it is sent into a second ice age. Before the chaos begins, Jack Hall’s son, Sam Hall (Jake Gyllenhaal) is attending an academic bowl in New York City. When the storm hits, Sam and a few others reside to the inside of a library. As everyone fights to stay alive, many people who managed to flee to the south try to figure out how to save the U.S. No one quite understands why the weather is being so chaotic until astronauts send down photographs of the storm from space. The storm is much worse than they realized.
The Day After Tomorrow was a smash hit at box offices, and won an award from The British Academy of Film and Television arts for having the best special effects of the year. I myself would definitely recommend this movie. It is an adventure, fantasy and action movie that can relate to the present day economy. (Don’t forget that it’s PG-13!)
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