Reported by Joeno on Fri Apr 9 08:53:37 2010
Last updated by Joeno on Sat Apr 10 13:49:26 2010
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Gen V details start to emerge!

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The official Japanese site has confirmed that the next generation of Pokémon games, the much anticipated Gen V, will be called ポケットモンスターブラック Pocket Monsters Black and ポケットモンスターホワイト Pocket Monsters White. That's Pokémon Black and White to the rest of us.

The games are set to be released for the DS in Autumn 2010 in Japan, which will probably translate to a Summer 2011 release in Europe and America.

Nintendo have already said that the games will, of course, introduce a new generation of Pokémon, but also that "every aspect will be reborn innovatively". A lot more details are set to follow with the release of the latest version of CoroCoro and the April 11th episode of Pokémon Sunday promising to reveal lots of new details, so stay tuned folks!

My theory is that because the names are so awful, they're planning extra special games this time around to make up for it. Woo!

UPDATE: For the first screenshots, see THIS NEWS UPDATE

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