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Nintendo brain training 'no better than pen and paper'

Australia People buying Nintendo DS consoles to give their grey matter a workout with brain training games are wasting their money, a new study shows. Titles such as Brain Training, More Brain Training and Big Brain Academy, which cost $50 on top of the $200 DS ...
Sun, Jun 14 | from WA today

Tax rebates for games a no-brainer, say gamers

Australia Despite the existence of several educational games such as Brain Training for the Nintendo DS and Big Brain Academy for the Nintendo Wii, the ATO believes that the educational value is not strong enough for people to claim the games or the consoles as ...
Sun, Jun 14 | from WA today

Big Brain Academy for Wii Advert

An advert for Big Brain Academy on Wii. www.gamespot.com
Sat, Jun 6 | from GameSpot

Wii Fit Plus & Art Academy Trademarks Spotted

We'd imagine this could follow the Big Brain Academy series and perhaps reflect a newfound passion for art from Shigeru Miyamoto. Either that or it's a DSiWare title, as Silconera suggests. We'd expect both titles to form part of Nintendo's E3 ...
Wed, May 27 | from Total Video Games

Nintendo denies DS Lite solus phase out

UK Sources this morning claimed that solus packs were to vanish from UK retail in the “coming weeks”, with bundles including Brain Training, Nintendogs and Big Brain Academy taking their place. However, a Nintendo UK spokesperson told MCV this morning: ...
Thu, Mar 12 | from MCV

Football Academy designer on developing new IP for the DS

Originally the concept being touted around was of combining a game like Brain Age/Big Brain Academy with football," explained Coates, adding: "but both I and Producer Simon Humber personally felt that this would be far too limited a game experience ...
Tue, Mar 10 | from CasualGaming.biz

Wii Warm Up: Setting definitive boundaries - Nintendo Wii Fanboy

Big Brain Academy and Brain Age are great, but they spawned a lot of junk titles trying to cash in on the brain-training exercises. On other consoles, it's obvious what qualifies... Any cartoon-style cart racer besides MarioKart is ...
Sat, Nov 8 | from Nintendo Wii Fanboy

GoNintendo » Blog Archive » Brain Challenge - review- What are you ...

Hm, that’s vaguely interesting to me. Big Brain Academy was interesting to me too but I didn’t want to pay full price for it. Since this is cheap I might consider it. Then again my ‘fridge’ is pretty full. :\ ...
Fri, Nov 7 | from Go Nintendo

Lightning Review: Brain Challenge

That is one strong plus feature of the Big Brain Academy games - you can have a cooperative mode where you are helping each other, or a race mode to see who finishes first, or even a puzzle mode where you compete to get points on a ...
Mon, Sep 15 | from The iPhone

Review : Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree [Wii] - from GamePro.com

Similar to the original DS version, the academy offers five subjects: Identify, Memorize, Analyze, Compute, and Visualize (switched from the DS's "Think"). All of the associated tasks are brand new for the Wii, with the Remote used ...
Wed, Aug 27 | from GamePro.com

Review : Big Brain Academy [DS] - from GamePro.com

Review - Big Brain Academy - School is now in session at Nintendo's Big Brain Academy, so enroll now! Great mini-games and a unique scoring system help give this brain trainer a passing grade.
Wed, Aug 27 | from GamePro.com

Brain Assist - review

If you've played Brain Training and Big Brain Academy to death and need something else of their ilk to get you through the day, Brain Assist will do the job. If you haven't played the aforementioned titles, though, or if you simply just ...
Tue, Aug 5 | from Go Nintendo

Simple 2000: The Japanese Software Chart... Again! [Sales]

11. Mario Kart DS (DS) 12. RuneFactory 2 (DS) 13. New Super Mario Bros. (DS) 15. Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Wii) 17. Taiko Drum Master DS (DS) 19. Powerful Pro Kun Pocket 10 (DS) 24. Tales of Innocence (DS) 26. More Brain Age (DS) 28. Nep League DS (DS) 30. Kanji Brain Test 2.5M (DS)
Thu, Jan 10 | from Kotaku

Big Brain Academy Invades Canadian TV Show [TV]

integration for promotion of Nintendo's Big Brain Academy(TM): Wii Degree. fit with the Big Brain Academy(TM): Wii Degree and all it's potential to reach showcase the social, competitive fun that Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree can
Wed, Aug 15 | from Kotaku

Wii Review: Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree

Boosting your brain mass (measured in grams) is the basic objective in all games. The CPU automatically divides players into teams for the multiplayer modes, and playing against the CPU is always an option. Big Brain Academy Wii Degree is rated E (Everyone) by the ESRB.
Tue, Jul 3 | from Blogcritics

Domination Update: Simple 2000: The Japanese Software Chart

03. Wii Sports (Wii) - 84,782 / 1,543,596 04. Yoshi's Island DS (DS) - 58,948 / 791,132 05. Wii Play (Wii) - 58,718 / 1,279,131 07. Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Wii) - 55,165 / 97,424 09. Momotarou Dentetsu DS Tokyo & Japan (DS) - 45,662 / 124,642 10. More Brain Age (DS) - 44,047 / 4,238,185
Thu, May 10 | from Kotaku