Nintendo has just revealed the release dates for some cool games, two of which are Pokémon games.

Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs will be released on October 4, 2010. It is the third installment in the Pokémon Ranger series and lets players take on the role of a Pokémon Ranger who protect Pokémon, people, and nature in the Oblivia region.

PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure will be released on November 1, 2010. Mew summons Pikachu to the PokéPark to find the missing Sky Prism Pieces, leaving it up to Pikachu to save the day.

Excerpt from Nintendo's Press Release
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Some upcoming Wii games include Metroid™: Other M on Aug. 31, Samurai Warriors™ 3 on Sept. 27, Wii Party™ on Oct. 3, Kirby's Epic Yarn™ on Oct. 17, PokéPark™ Wii: Pikachu's Adventure on Nov. 1, FlingSmash™ on Nov. 7 and Donkey Kong Country™ Returns on Nov. 21. Some marquee third-party games include New Carnival Games® from 2K Play on Sept. 21, NBA JAM from EA Sports™ on Oct. 5, Just Dance® 2 from Ubisoft® on Oct. 12, GoldenEye 007™ from Activision Publishing, Inc. in November, Sonic Colors™ from SEGA on Nov. 16 and Disney Epic Mickey from Disney Interactive Studios this holiday season.

For the Nintendo DS family of systems, upcoming games include Professor Layton and the Unwound Future™ on Sept. 12, Pokémon Ranger™: Guardian Signs on Oct. 4, Art Academy™ on Oct. 25 and Mario vs. Donkey Kong™: Mini-Land Mayhem! on Nov. 14. Some featured third-party games on the way for the rest of the year include Super Scribblenauts from Warner Bros. in October, FINAL FANTASY® THE 4 HEROES OF LIGHT from Square Enix, Inc. on Oct. 5 and Rock Band™ 3 from Electronic Arts/MTV on Oct. 29.

The Japanese website for 7-Eleven has announced they will be holding a Pokémon Event this month.

It will be available at only fifteen stores, located in Tokyo. It will be distributed from August 20 to September 5.

Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, and SoulSilver gamers can receive it.

Thanks to kotobuki for the tip.

The official Japanese Pokémon website has had its weekly update. It is now confirming that there will be a Manaphy event a few days after the event for Satoshi's Pikachu.

Manaphy will be available at Nintendo Zone, DS Download Stations, and Nintendo Wi-Fi from August 14, 2010 to September 12, 2010. It will be available to all Japanese copies of Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, and SoulSilver.

The details on Manaphy are as follows. It is level 50 and captured in a Cherish Ball. It is holding a Lansat Berry and has the Classic Ribbon. It knows Aqua Ring, Water Pulse, Water Sport, and Heart Swap.

The official Japanese Pokémon website has announced that all Birthday events will be ending in early November.

This means that the Nagoya Chimchar, Tokyo Charmander, and Yokohama Pikachu will no longer be available after the November deadline. A specific date has not yet been specified.

However, it is not all bad news. On Friday, September 17, they will be revealing the details on a new series of events.

Thanks to our member kotobuki for bringing this to our attention.

Pokémon.com has announced the opening of the new World Championship website. With the site overhaul earlier this year, a lot of the older sites were removed or changed in some way, including the Worlds site. The new site has a list of all the participants who have qualified.

This year the Pokémon World Championships will be held at the Hilton Waikaloa Village Hotel in Waikaloa, Hawaii starting August 13 and ending August 15.

The schedule has also been announced. One thing to note is a special character distribution on Sunday, August 15. It is available to English, French, and Italian gamers from 11 to 1 and Japanese, German, and Spanish gamers from 2 to 4. What is the character? We don't know yet. However, the Pokémon distributed has always been that years logo.

The Pokémon featured in this year's logo are Lanturn, Crobat, Aipom, Quilava, Bayleef, Bellossom, Pikachu, Croconaw, and Smoochum. Chances are that ones of these Pokémon will be that special character. We will just have to wait and see to know for sure.

In other news, Pokémon Organized Play is now known as Play! Pokémon.