The latest trailer for Pokémon Black and White covers all the stuff you can do with your enslaved critters when you’re not sending them out to fight for their lives.

New to Generation V are events called Pokémon Musicals. If the Super Contests from previous games were the color purple, then the Musicals just turned that up to an intense shade of lavender.

Judging from the video, trainers can accessorize their pokémon and have them perform on stage, possibly for ribbons or other nonsensical trinkets.

The internet functions of B/W were also elaborated on. Dubbed Pokémon Dream, trainers will be able to upload pokémon to a special website that lets you grow berries or encounter other pokémon that you can engage in battle back on the DS.

A few new characters were introduced, most notable being the two grunts for the new “bad guys” Team Plasma (seen at the :40 – :41 mark). A bunch of minor trainers you’ll encounter in Isshu were also shown near the end of the trailer. It looks like we’ll get to cross paths with bakers, football players and nurses.

For more details on some of the other aspects featured, Bulbagarden has an excellent summary of the new trailer.

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The team behind Metroid: Other M must really like their work on fleshing out Samus’ backstory because, after beating the game once, players will unlock “Theater Mode,” which lets you watch all of the game’s cutscenes, back-to-back, in a two-hour movie format.

As ludicrous as it may sound to watch nothing but a game’s video, it may be a decent chance to really soak in the game’s story. I know when I play games with cutscenes interspersed between action segments, I tend to zone out and focus more on getting back to the action than paying attention to the story.

At the very least, slogging trough the two-hour long movie is optional (coughcough Metal Gear Solid 4 coughcough).

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A couple of months back, I said that there was a new Advance Wars game in the works. As it turns out, I was mistaken. What was listed as “Famicom Wars DS 2” in Nintendo’s Financial Briefing document was actually the Japanese version Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, which wasn’t released in the region.

And now, unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it ever will. The title was absent from the company’s Q1 earnings report released yesterday, and today, Inside Games reports that plans to publish the successor to Dual Strike in Japan have been canceled.

Source [via Siliconera]