Nintendo’s has had two successful Brain Age titles. Flash Focus is a Brain Age spin-off that boosts your visual perception brain power. This game helps to train your vision. A series of mini-games which attempt to improve vision and hand-eye coordination speed. Flash Focus was advised by Dr. Hisao Ishigaki, who is considered “a leader [...]

SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA® Europe Ltd. announced a luminous lineup of video games to be presented at E3 2008. SEGA will debut numerous franchises across six platforms, including legendary icons and dazzling new stars, as the company continues to grow and develop both original and high-profile, licensed properties. Show attendees will witness innovative [...]

This new Nancy Drew game in the series is called the The Phantom of Venice. The interface is the same which you will recognize if you have played some of the other games in the series. You begin in Nancy’s room. She then explains to the different options for the game. The beginning of the [...]

In the Sony press conference this week that was so dull that it made me want to throw my PS3 out the window and then jump out after it, they wound up with the SOE announcements. Sony Online entertainment has Batman: Hush artist Jim Lee signed on to help develop a new MMO featuring the [...]

In spite of the verb-less title I wanted to check out this game. I was a yoga teacher back during college days and early twenties. Nintendo has been pushing the edu-tainment envelope for a while. First with the onslaught of brain games, and then followed by the Wii Fit. But Yoga on DS? I thought [...]

A sad daffodil sits in a flower pot in a gray room in the city. But this daffodil can dream. Thanks to the superior powers of the PS3 this gogeous vision of 200,000 or more individually rendered stems that change color. You play as the wind which carrries petals and the dreams of flowers. The [...]

I’ve been saying for a few years now that Sony makes it incredibly hard to be a fan. This E3 presentation was no exception. Following along with Nintendo’s board meeting style of boredom, the Sony press conference really left much to be desired. It began with reminiscing about the PS One. Not the good nostalgia [...]

The three E3 press conferences from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony were the dullest, driest most humorless presentations that I have ever seen on an E3 broadcast. By now I expect dull from Microsoft, it’s the only innovation that they can take credit for. But when Nintendo’s presentation is worse than Microsoft’s maybe we should be [...]

The Microsoft press conference almost put me to sleep. they did have some impressive videos. There really wasn’t anything new or unexpected in the line up for the fall. Many sources had speculated about new hardware, but there wasn’t any major revelations. There were lots of big numbers which brought a tear to the eye [...]

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