JUNE 2003

June 1st 2003:

All the e-Card scans of Pokémon-e Skyridge have been added to the e-Card Catalog.
All the cards of Animal Crossing-e Series 4 have been added to the catalog as well (the e-Card scans will be added ASAP). I also made some minor changes to the catalog regarding promotional e-Cards.
The Animal Crossing-e Series 4 checklist is now complete, and you will (of course) find it in the Checklists section. I'd like to use this opportunity to thank everyone who helped me collect the data for this particular checklist! :-)
According to EBGames.com, the Game & Watch series of e-Cards will be released on October 7th 2003 (thanks for the info, Greg). Gosh, I hope they're wrong, because I certainly don't want to wait that long! :-(
Every day between June 9th and June 18th, the Pokémon TCG web site will display one new card of the new series of Pokémon-e TCG EX - Ruby & Sapphire e-Cards. Allow me to remind you that June 18th is the official release date of this new series of Pokémon-e cards distributed by Nintendo (instead of Wizards of the Coast).
The news items for May have been moved to the News Archive section.

June 7th 2003:

All the e-Card scans of Animal Crossing-e Series 4 have been added to the e-Card Catalog.
I also added the "Kyogre ex" promotional Pokémon-e card to the catalog. This e-Card, which is tied to the Pokémon-e TCG EX Ruby & Sapphire series, can be found in the July issue of Scrye magazine presently on newsstands. (Drop by Pokémon Labs if you want to see a high-resolution picture of this card.)

June 21st 2003:

Earlier this week, the new Pokémon-e TCG EX Ruby & Sapphire series made its retail debut, and the official Pokémon-e TCG web site has also been updated with brand new content, including checklists for the new series in HTML and PDF format. There are still some unfinished areas, but the web site looks pretty cool overall. I've decided to wait a little while before adding my own checklist to the Checklists section, because I'm not sure which cards have e-Reader data strips and which ones don't. I'll probably have this info next week, in time for the next site update. Until then, just go to the official site and download the full checklist.
There's a particular piece of news on the Pokémon-e TCG web site which I'd like to report here: Two new promotional e-Cards will be included with the next issue of Nintendo Power magazine (#170)! The first is the "Kyogre ex (001)" card (which was already available with the July issue of Scrye magazine, as reported two weeks ago) and the other is the "Groudon ex (002)" card! Furthermore, this same "Groudon" promo card will be packed with the August issue of Scrye magazine. Good news indeed! :-)
Want some more Pokémon e-Card news? The Battle-e cards (designed to unlock stuff in the Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire GBA games) will be released on June 27th in Japan. There are 54 cards in the series, including 6 "Berry" cards. You can read all about it by clicking here and here. (Can't read japanese? Click here and here for a partial translation). There's a very high probability that these same cards will be released here in the US, so I sent some e-mail to Nintendo about this, and this is the answer I got from a Nintendo representative:
Cool news indeed, but since it's not exactly official news yet, I'm going to wait before adding the Battle-e cards to the Future Releases section.
I would like to use this opportunity to make a special announcement: I'll be hosting a new game design contest starting on July 1st 2003! If you thought the NES Game Design Contest was too complex and/or too demanding, you'll be happy to know that this new game design contest will be much easier to understand, should require less work, and should interest participants of all ages! Intrigued? Come back on July 1st for all the details! ;-)