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Nintendo Buys A TV Show
11:00PM Luke Plunkett | You’ve played Nintendo games. Now get ready for a Nintendo television show, as the Japanese gaming giant have bought themselves a British gaming show. More »
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Nintendo: Not Everyone Has Played Brain Age
4:00PM Brian Ashcraft | With the gajillion titles of Brain Age and its sequel Nintendo has sold, you’d think pretty much everyone has played the game. You’re wrong. More »
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Brain Age Does Not Work Say French Researchers
6:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Just as researchers in Scotland say Brain Age works, researchers in France say it doesn’t. According to data from University of Rennes, Brittany, Brain Age failed to show any significant jump in memory. More »
Nintendo announces release date of first batch of DSi Ware games
7:00AM Kotaku US Edition | Famitsu Dot Com reports today that Nintendo has decided that today is the day to allow Famitsu Dot Com and only Famitsu Dot Com to reveal the release date of the first batch of DSi Ware titles. More »
What’s The Biggest-Selling Game In Europe This Year?
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | Fans of our British sales charts will have some knowledge of the selling power of the Brain Training games, but really, they’ve only got part of the picture. They don’t know how well it’s been selling on the continent, and on the continent, it’s been selling like hotcakes hot crepes. According to chart trackers GfK, over the first six months of 2008, the original Brain Training was the top-selling game in Switzerland, Belgium and The Netherlands. Germany’s top-selling game over the same period was the sequel, More Brain Training. Spain’s #1 was Brain Training, while it’s #2 was…More Brain Training. Just so you know, the first Brain Training was released over two years ago, while in Europe, even the sequel’s been out for over a year. Egads. Brain Training dominates 2008 in Europe [GI.biz] More »There Will Be No More Brain Training
2:30PM Luke Plunkett | For a game built upon endless repetition, Brain Training’s certainly making an impression on some people, because years on from release, the two games are still selling like fancy, heated cakes. So Nintendo are surely working on more, yes? Itprintsmoney.gif and all that? No. Having most likely noticed the fact people can’t tell the two games apart, and still buy more of the original than the sequel, it’s been announced by Nintendo (grain of salt notice: Nintendo Europe) that two will do, and they’ll just keep on selling them for millennia until our sun expands, killing us all in a blinding flash of white. More Brain Training from Dr Kawashima [TVG, via Go Nintendo] More »
BBC Program Terribly Upset With Brain Training
5:30PM Luke Plunkett | The BBC’s Watchdog program is upset with Brain Training. Very upset! Host Nicky Campbell has criticised the game and accused it of “discrimination”, after hearing testimony from folks who can’t be understood by the game thanks to their strong accents. That’d be northerners, Scots, Northern Irish, and Welsh, then. In other words, nearly half the population of the United Kingdom. My advice: learn to deal with the disappointment, and move on. Many Americans and Australians, and in particular New Zealanders and South Africans, are all in the same boat, and our lives aren’t lying in ruins just yet. Brain Training discriminates against Northerners, says Watchdog [CVG] [Pic] More »
Dr. Kawashima Is A Sucker
1:20AM Luke Plunkett | Man, Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training has sold a lot of copies. So has its sequel. Millions. Tens of millions. Which has made Nintendo a lot of money. But what about Dr. Kawashima himself? The guy’s entitled to his share of the royalties, and so far those royalties amount to $US 22 million (of which he’s entitled to half and his employer, Tohoku University, the other half). So what’s he doing with all that cash? Living the high life? Partying with rappers, wearing alligator-skin boots and fishing dead hookers out his mansion’s swimming pool? Nope. He’s turned all $US 11 million down. Not a single yen has gone in my pocket. Everyone in my family is mad at me but I tell them that if they want money, go out and earn it. I’m not a Doctor, but if a game with my face on it entitled me to $US 11 million, I’d sure as shit take the $US 11 million. ‘Brain training’ Dr Kawashima has no time for games [AFP, via Go Nintendo] More »
