Welcome to The Pokémon Gazette, dear Poké-fans. This newspaper was especially made for your enjoyment and awareness of recent events that develop in the gaming and Pokémon world. Please enjoy this issue of the Gazette, and e-mail us with any ideas, questions, or answers!

At the Pokémon Gazette, we strive to give you information that can personally affect you. We give reviews of the latest stuff that comes out, such as games, movies, and series in the animé and Pokémon world. Along with Pokémon info, we also give you stuff fun activities, like quizzes and contests.

Among one of out features is the Skitty Announcement Board, where you can give a few words in a shout outs to your friends. In another corner of the Gazette is critiques on new games. More will come on that as time moves on. Another interesting thing we have in the Gazette, however, is our Featured Fanfic and Fanart section where we will showcase a budding Fanfictor or Artist, reviewing the work that we've looked at. As each month goes by more will be added to this section of the Gazette, so you never know when it might be your fic or art that might be looked upon and featured because we look high and low for things to feature.

Most importantly, the Gazette is run by volunteers ages 13 and up. We have kids contributing articles, and we have graduates that diligently work on a column for us to place here. We are always willing to accept articles for the Gazette, and always happy to know that people enjoy the hard work that's put into it. We certainly appreciate all those that have contributed and those that are considering contributing.

This newspaper does not own Pokémon or Nintendo or anything like that, but we do however maintain rights to the works published in here. The Pokémon Gazette is run by Stareon's Hideout and Vulzam's Cave, and we appreciate anyone else who would like to support us in what we do here. Please enjoy your time here, and check back soon for our next issue.