A new news article has been posted!

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The official Japanese Pokémon site just revealed that remakes of Pocket Monsters Ruby and Pocket Monsters Sapphire, titled Pocket Monsters Omega Ruby and Pocket Monsters Alpha Sapphire, will be released this November.

Source: http://www.pokemon.co.jp/ex/oras/

I'm actually kind of surprised with the announcement of these games. I guess the whole "Houen Confirmed" meme going around that I kinda was thinking perhaps after Pokemon Z they would release it. I guess now that they have a engine for the Nintendo 3DS, they can easily start pumping out games for the system now.

I'm actually looking forward to this. Gen 3 has always been a sour note for me, since the amount of time spent surfing was unbearable at times. Now that they have a perfectly viable game engine, it's going to be the Houen Region like we never imagined before.