Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia (????????? ????? Pokemon Renja Batonaji "Pokémon Ranger: Vatonage") is an action role-playing video game developed by Creatures Inc. and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo DS video game console. It was announced in the January 2008 issue of CoroCoro and was released in Japan on March 20 2008. It was announced at E3 2008 that the game would be released in the United States under the title Shadows of Almia on November 10 2008. It was announced on September 25 that the game would be released in Europe under the title Shadows of Almia on November 21 2008. It was released on the European Wii U Virtual Console on June 9 2016 and was released on the North American Wii U Virtual Console on August 4 2016.