Photos of this month's Corocoro were recently made available online, revealing a lot of new information on Pocket Monsters Black 2 White 2. The games will be released in Japan on June 23rd, 2012 for 4800yen each. The game will take place in Isshu 2 years after the original BW game and feature an all new plot, new areas including Hiougi City (ヒオウギシティ), where your new adventure will be starting and a new Regional Pokédex with roughly 300 Pokémon total. The game will have two new playable characters and a new rival, as well at least two new gym leaders, the Water type leader Shizui (シズイ) and the Poison type leader Homika (ホミカ). A mysterious researcher named Achroma (アクロマ) will also figure into the plot somehow.

New Miscellaneous Information:

• Homika will be appearing in the Best Wishes anime series in an episode to air June 14th, 2012.
• Black Kyurem knows Freeze Shock and White Kyurem knows Ice Burn.
• New Unova Pokédex: Psyduck is #026, Riolu is #033 and Metagross is #254

That's some interesting 'scans', though we don't see much of the game itself. I like the new character designs (looks like they won't give the female chracter a normal hairdo :p), especially that 'Poison Gym Leader'.

I wasn't expecting them to add Pokémon from the previous regions, and at first, when I read the new Pokédex would have 300 Pokémon, I thought it meant '150 new Pokémon'...

Thanksfully, BW2 seems to be much more than just your usual '3rd game'. Which is a very good thing. I'm really looking forward to it... and this Sunday, where we'll finally get to see some actual game footage.

Dumb mistranslation on my part, actually - it says it'll have "roughly" 300 Pokemon, not "exactly 300".