A number of scientists have disputed claims that brain training games can improve your memory and keep your mind healthy. Consumer magazine Which? assembled a team of experts to examine the research behind such claims and found that there wasn’t much evidence to back them up. Brain Training’s instruction booklet says “training can help consolidate […]
Archive | 2009
DS Prepares For Its First 18-Rated Game
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has been granted an 18 certificate by the British Board of Film Classification, making it the first DS title to receive the adults-only rating. According to the BBFC, the game contains “very strong language and drug references”, and it’s also known to include drug-dealing and safe-cracking mini-games. It was passed […]
Four Let’s Play Games Out This Week
Deep Silver will release four new titles from its kid-focused Let’s Play series this Friday – Let’s Play Firemen, Let’s Play Fashion Designer, Let’s Play Pet Hospitals and Let’s Play Schools. The publisher says that the Let’s Play range of titles has been designed to provide “interesting and exciting non-violent content” for children, offering the […]
Professor Layton Returns To DS Chart Summit
Professor Layton And The Curious Village has returned to the top of the DS chart, with last week’s bestseller, Mystery Case Files: Millionheir, dropping to number three. Sandwiched between the pair is Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training, which moved up one place from last week. Mario Kart DS took fourth place and New Super Mario Mario […]
My Pet Shop Opens For Business This Friday
If you dream of working with animals one day then this could well be the game for you. Targeted at young female gamers, My Pet Shop’s set to deliver care and nurture gameplay plus an engaging storyline. Following your move from the metropolis of Gold City, it sees you endeavour to run the best pet […]
Nintendo DSi European Release April 3rd
No sooner had we posted the US release date, then the UK date came through! The Nintendo DSi will be available from Friday 3rd April, and if you pre-order, it will be delivered to you that very morn. Oh, and we get it one day before the US too. Boo-yaaah! Speaking of the US Amazon […]
DSi Gets U.S. Release Date
Nintendo’s confirmed that the third iteration of its DS handheld, the DSi, will launch in the States on April 5, and a European release date surely can’t be far away now! Coming in blue and black models upon its U.S. release, the DSi will cost $169.99, which is about $40 more than the DS Lite […]
Challenge Me: Brain Puzzles Unveiled
Oxygen Games has revealed Challenge Me: Brain Puzzles, the debut entry in a new range of DS games “designed to relax and stimulate your mind”. The company says that the title, which combines number based games Sudoku and Picture Logic, will deliver hours of entertainment and “may also improve your mental skills”. We see no […]
Black & White DS Lites To Be Discontinued?
The most common of DS Lite models, Polar White and Onyx Black, may soon be discontinued as Nintendo looks to avoid causing confusion when it launches its newest version of the handheld, the DSi, later this year. The white DS Lite has already been discontinued in the States and according to reports, retailers are now […]
Mind Your Language!
No we’re not telling you off, you can turn the air blue if you want (God knows we do sometimes), what we’re on about is the new range of language games coming to the DS from PlayV. Mind Your Language comes in French, German, Spanish and Japanese with more languages to follow later in the […]