Nintendo just recently released a brand new version of the Official Pokémon Website, and the updated site boasts lots of new features. One of which, is the ability to stream a hefty amount of anime episodes that previously aired on television. That’s right folks, no more having to wait for each episode to air on Cartoon Network. Now you can watch all of your Pokémon favorites whenever you want. The episodes are being added gradually (3 or 4 every couple of days), but the collection is definitely going to become larger.
View the very first appearance of Gary using the new episode database!
Another cool new feature that was included in this huge upgrade is the introduction of the Pokémon Trainer Club, which is the equivalent to the Daisuki Club in Japan. My Pokémon accounts have now been replaced by Pokémon Trainer Club accounts, which can be used to participate in the Organized Play portion of the site along with a few other interactive aspects.
Speaking of which, Organized Play has now been split into two categories: TCG and Video Game. This club is also responsible for many events in the past years in which players could obtain exclusive Pokémon. As one of its first events, the Pokémon Trainer Club has announced that they will be hosting the “Special Colored Pichu” event at GameStop from January 30th to February 14th.
The website has also been updated with all of the new Heart Gold/Soul Silver artwork, a complete TCG database of the trading cards, and loads of new mini-games to play. More additions to the site can be expected to arrive soon, but if you haven’t already checked it out, it’s definitely worth a visit!
The new layout.
Wow, it looks amazing.
I have to say, this is quite an update!
… they’re updating the site, it’s telling me its improving or something. Probably an update.
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This is kinda cool, though I prefer the first appearance the site had before R/S/E came out.
Huh. Can I know events in a more concise way now?
Pretty cool. It’s about time something new appeared on the site.
It’s nice graphically, but the trainer’s club is buggy as all heck. Half the time you don’t get coins for playing the games, even when you are logged in… My trainer’s quote keeps getting reset to the default, and now I can’t even change it at all. RAWR.
It’s great they finally changed the site, especially since tehy don’t rely 100% on Flash for their content anymore. Though, like before, they didn’t migrate the old news data, content, downloads and games from the old site to the new site, so everything is gone now.