From February 27th through March 13th, you’d better be heading to Gamestop! There, Nintendo will offer Pokemon fans a special treat – a rare, downloadable Pokemon. Which pocket monster? The famed wish-granting Jirachi. This isn’t your everyday Pokemon here; Jirachi can not be obtained through regular game play, and the last time it was even available was back in Pokemon Ruby / Pokemon Sapphire, also Super Smash Bros Brawl. If you trade Jirachi to the upcoming HeartGold or SoulSilver, you can unlock a special route in your Pokewalker, allowing you to catch rare and special Pokemon outside of the actual game. Now if only you could get Pokemon HeartGold, Pokemon SoulSilver, and a Nintendo DSi for free…? For now, just head to any Game Stop with a copy of Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum and download Jirachi for free to your Nintendo DS. Check out Jirachi in action (more… )

On March 14th, Pokemon fans everywhere will be able to get their hands on the latest and greatest Pokemon games to hit the Nintendo DS; Pokemon HeartGold and Pokemon SoulSilver, enhanced remakes of the 1999 video games Pokémon Gold and Silver for Nintendo Game Boy. The games will be available in all the regular toy stores, but… 1 lucky ToonBarn fan will get their own copy of each game for free! What’s better, you’ll also get a brand new Nintendo DSi to play them on! How can you enter for a chance to win? (more… )

Just a few days ago, we caught word that fifth generation Pokemon were to be revealed in the upcoming days. The Gen-5 Pokemon was seen only in a teaser photo that hid its true identity in a silhouette. Now, as detail hunters scoured the Internet, we are able to reveal some early images of the Pokemon. No more waiting fo Pokemon Sunday later in the month, we’re getting the look at this pocket monster immediately! Say hello to Zorua and the larger evolution, Zoroark. These are two Dark type Pokemon that will appear in the 5th Generation of Pokemon role playing games. What do you think? Does he look like you thought he would? (more… )

We’ve had some exciting Pokemon news lately; not the least of which involves the upcoming HeartGold and SoulSilver games. But the teaser image above is possibly the biggest event of the bunch, as it indicates an entirely new breed of Pokemon is on it’s way; the fifth generation Pokemon. The new series of critters, known as GEN 5, is still a mystery, but the details will begin to flow on the February 21st episode of Pokemon Sunday. We have our guesses as to what it is; what are yours?? (more… )

Does the name “Bernie Madoff” ring a bell? He’s not exactly on every cartoon fan’s mind, so we’d understand if not. As a quick sum up, he’s the guy in all the trouble lately because he ran illegal “Ponzi schemes”, stealing millions of dollars from unsuspecting folks. To retrieve some of that money, the government has been auctioning off his belongings, including his luxury penthouse apartment on the Upper East Side of NYC’s Manhattan. Here’s the toon connection: the new owner is none other than the CEO of 4Kids Al Kahn. That explains the sudden influx of “bad dubs, new duds” emails we’ve been getting lately! The New York Post reports the head of 4Kids Entertainment, the man behind Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Cabbage Patch Kids and more, bought the 4,000 square foot home for about $8 million dollars. (more… )

That’s right; a Pokemon game within a Pokemon game! As if the already-included bonuses weren’t enough. According to sources at the Official Nintendo Magazine, All English-language versions of the upcoming Pokemon games (I’m looking at you, Europe, North America, and Australia!) will include a brand new mini-game. The object; players must flip over panels in a five-by-five grid. Some panels hide multipliers for the player’s coins, and some hide Voltorbs, which end the round and cause the player to lose all their coins. Numerical clues help you figure out where the Voltorbs are hidden, making the game feel like another Nintendo DS classic, Picross. (more… )

If you guys are like me, you’re just dying to get your hands on the latest Pokemon games. It doesn’t matter what they are, or what system they’re for, you just want to play them! Well, Pokemon HeartGold and Pokemon SoulSilver are the next two big Pokemon games hitting the Nintendo DS systems, and there’s just a bit more than 6 weeks until their March 14th launch date. We were happy enough just to find out about the bonus packed in with the game, but now we hear that IGN has already played through a version! The lucky folks there have discovered a few great tidbits, including that the game includes: “many of the Pokemon previously only available through the GBA games, like legendaries Groudon and Kyogre.” These 6 weeks better fly by!! (more… )

Pokemon fans are getting a lot of great gaming news of late. First, we hear all about Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver, then we hear all about the bonuses for that game. Now, we’re getting reports that Japan is already teasing the next Pokemon Ranger game for the Nintendo DS, due out March 9th. In the latest game, Pokemon Ranger: Hikari no Kiseki (“Path of Light” or “Tracks of Light”), players will star as Rangers, equipped with a “Capture Styler” to capture Pokemon by drawing energy circles around them. The new game will feature tropical Pokemon, like Ukulele Pichu. Honest! Using “Ranger Signs” and “Poke Assists” you can summon Pokemon with special abilities, and add elemental damage to your Styler. Check out a clip of the game in action (more… )