Although not exactly fresh, Pokemon Platinum’s substantial fine-tuning and new features make it the best special edition yet.

Score: 8.0 / great

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Dual-screen portable hits milestone less than 4.5 years after launching; 83 games for handheld have gone platinum, with seven games topping 10 million.

Nintendo’s continued dominance of the game-industry landscape was further underlined yesterday. This morning, the Kyoto-based company announced that sometime last week, the 100 millionth unit of its DS portable was shipped out to retailers. Last year, the platform surpassed the 81 million-plus international sales of its predecessor, the Game Boy Advance.

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GameSpot chats with Takeshi Kawachimaru and Junichi Masuda about the upcoming Pokemon game for Nintendo DS.

The Pokemon phenomenon continues to roll on. Eleven years after the U.S. release of Pokemon Red & Blue on the original Game Boy, the series is stronger than ever. Pokemon Platinum is the upcoming release on the Nintendo DS platform after a string of hits that included Diamond, Pearl, and the two Pokemon Dungeon games. Still, with so many Pokemon games out there, it might be tough for the developers to find new directions for the series, right? We put that question, and a few others, to two of the main forces behind Pokemon Platinum: game director Junichi Masuda and game designer Takeshi Kawachimaru.

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Check out the newest trailer for Pokemon Platinum on the Nintendo DS… Enjoy!