Yesterday, Pokemon Diamond and Pear (the Fourth Generation of Pokemon games) was released.  Since it's Pokemon obviously sales will be through the roof, but that doesn't really matter unless the games are still fun.  Good thing is that they are the same old Pokemon games, just with some extras thrown in for good measure.  The graphics still aren't the spectacular quality that they could possibly be, but for what they are they are still quite good and easy on the eyes. 

I'm only about 7 hours into Diamond, also have Pearl, and the game is basically the same...which isn't a bad thing.  The new touch screen functions really make battles more fun as you no longer have to go through menus to find what you want as it is just a couple of taps away.

And just as a status update I have two badges and just got down the bicylce road.  Below is my team.

• Lvl 24 Staravia
• Lvl 21 Grotle
• Lvl 16 Ponyta
• Lvl 16 Machop
• Lvl 16 Shellos
• Lvl 15 Pachirisu