Gotta catch ‘em all over again next spring in Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver

The inevitable announcement has come. Nintendo has confirmed that it is planning to release the latest DS Pokemon games, Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver, to North America and Europe in Spring 2010. The news came during the 2009 Pokemon World Championships, a Pokemon Trading Card Game event held August 14-15, 2009 in San Diego.

As fans of the series who’ve been following the news out of Japan probably know, Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver are DS remakes of the original GBA games Pokemon Gold and Silver, only with additional content added in. Both games are scheduled to be released September 12, 2009 in Japan, so everyone else has to wait a little under a year.

The official announcement is incredibly brief, omitting quite a few details concerning Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver. Like, for example, the PokeWalker…