My Pokemon Ranch is already available in North American and Japan but it will finally be available in Europe this week. Discover the joys of a carefree life in the countryside with My Pokemon Ranch. Available for download via WiiWare from July 4, My Pokemon Ranch places you in charge of a green and pleasant patch of land that doubles as a playground for hundreds of Pokemon.

At My Pokemon Ranch, you can watch your Pokemon dance, march in a parade and give your Mii a ride around the Ranch. You never know what your favourite Pokemon will do next! When you’re ready to show off your Ranch, invite your Wii Friends to pay it a visit via Wii Connect 24.

Hayley, the creator of Pokemon Ranch, has a dream to one day see the grounds of the Ranch filled with Pokemon. Acting as the caretaker of the Ranch with your chosen Mii, it’s up to you help make Hayley’s dream a reality! You will start with just six Pokemon on the ranch, with a new one added each day to help fill every acre of the grounds.

Release date: 04/07/2008
Wii Points: 1000
Game language: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian

Source: http://www.nintendo.co.uk/

Between July 19th and August 31st, owners of the Japanese version of Pokemon Ranger will be able download a special Shaymin mission. Extra missions are only available by downloading them from Nintendo Wifi Connection on your Nintendo DS. In order to download extra missions, it is necessary that you have completed the game.

"The mission, For the Sake of the Bride and Shaymin!, takes place at a wedding and has the player find and protect Shaymin from Team Yamiyami. " (Bulbanews)

Pokemon Ranger Batonnage is an action-adventure game for the Nintendo DS and the sequel to Pokemon Ranger. It was released in Japan on March 20, 2008. The game is set in a new region called Almia where the base of operations is a Ranger School that the main characters have just graduated from.

Instructions for downloading the extra missions are available on the official Japanese Pokemon website. You can view the instructions by clicking here.

Unlike in the special missions, the Pokemon captured in the extra downloadable missions are subsequently released without allowing them to be transferred to Pokemon Diamond and Pearl.

Source: http://www.pokemon.co.jp/special/ranger/game_info/06.html

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness sold over 209 000 copies combined in May with life-to-date sales reaching over 613 000 copies. Explorers of Darkness was number 9 on the sales charts for all system with 107 000 units sold and Darkness and Time was number 10 with 102 000 units sold respectively.

Source: http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=15421