A bunch of news was released on Serebii.net today.
The game is officially confirmed along with some details:
- Pokemon Platinum is going to be released September 13, 2008 in Japan.
- You have to face Team Galactic once more, but it seems their plan and HQ have been stepped up a fair bit.
- The Battle Frontier returns and is in Sinnoh's Battle Park.
- The Wi-Fi area has been enhanced with various areas which support twenty people at a time.
- The poffin making has taken a step up and has a new feature that involves a Swalot machine.
- The Battle Recorder, an item seen with Shaymin's pictures last week, allows you to record battles that you hold and share them with your friends. This is done with a new and improved Global Trade Station.
- Shaymin's Sky forme's ability is Serene Grace. It appears to focus more on Special Attack and Speed and can learn the move Air Slash.
- Giratina's origin forme's ability is Levitate.
- Conformation of new characters shown last month, one is a Team Galactic member and the other is part of the International police force and is hunting Team Galactic.
The site isn't working properly right now, so I'll post the new updates quickly.