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Nintendo brain training 'no better than pen and paper'

14 Jun 2009 17:27:52 PDT

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 ...

Original story at WA today .

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Tax rebates for games a no-brainer, say gamers

14 Jun 2009 17:09:54 PDT

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 ...

Original story at WA today .

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Big Brain Academy for Wii Advert

06 Jun 2009 10:26:18 PDT

An advert for Big Brain Academy on Wii. www.gamespot.com

Original story at GameSpot .

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Library events

03 Jun 2009 13:35:01 PDT

MI Games include: Wii Sports, Big Brain Academy, and Mario Kart. Slamming in the City: 6 pm June 10 at the Ypsilanti District Library, 229 W. Michigan Avenue. Free. Details: 482-4110 ext. 1390 Join us near the fountain for a spoken word performance by the ...

Original story at Ypsilanti Courier .

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Wii Fit Plus & Art Academy Trademarks Spotted

27 May 2009 07:02:28 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Total Video Games .

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Xbox 360 XBLArrivals: Stellar Hand Edition

11 May 2009 13:27:12 PDT

NC Additionally, this week's Deal of Week is Brain Challenge, a self-improvement game (like Brain Age, Big Brain Academy and countless others); Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers can download the title for 400 Microsoft Points ($5.00), half off of the usual price ...

Original story at Video Game Generation .

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Big Brain Academy news and blogs - November 20, 2009

20 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Big Brain Academy news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

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• Wii Fit Plus, premium PSP set for unveiling at E3? -- from GameSpot
• • Step into a virtual world of fun and health for seniors -- from PennLive.com
• Canadian Gaming Deals, May 15th Edition -- from NextGen Player
• Big Brain Academy - Wii - Videoreview -- from Google Video - -site:youtube.com "Big Brain Academy" "Brain Age" OR brain OR Compute OR Memorize OR Nintendo OR "Practice mode" OR "June 5" OR DS OR "Versus mode" OR "Nintendo DS" OR Cheats OR "mini games" OR multiplayer OR Analyze OR Kawashima's OR "brain training" OR minigames OR cartridge OR "Brain Age 2" OR stylus OR "themed questions" OR categories OR puzzles OR "Brain Boost" OR modes OR Previews OR test OR puzzle OR heaviest OR "museum curator" OR Wii OR ESRB
• TODAY 06:23 : Brain boxes more.. - Businessandleadership.com -- from Sharing Intelligence
• April Showers Bring May's Most Wanted -- from Feed Your Console
• Nintendo DS and Wii release schedule for South Africa -- from EL33TONLINE
• Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree User Review 113826 -- from Google Video - -site:youtube.com "Big Brain Academy" "Brain Age" OR brain OR Compute OR Memorize OR Nintendo OR "Practice mode" OR "June 5" OR DS OR "Versus mode" OR "Nintendo DS" OR Cheats OR "mini games" OR multiplayer OR Analyze OR Kawashima's OR "brain training" OR minigames OR cartridge OR "Brain Age 2" OR stylus OR "themed questions" OR categories OR puzzles OR "Brain Boost" OR modes OR Previews OR test OR puzzle OR heaviest OR "museum curator" OR Wii OR ESRB
• Big Brain Academy Wii Degree | Nintendo Wii | Trailer -- from Google Video - -site:youtube.com "Big Brain Academy" "Brain Age" OR brain OR Compute OR Memorize OR Nintendo OR "Practice mode" OR "June 5" OR DS OR "Versus mode" OR "Nintendo DS" OR Cheats OR "mini games" OR multiplayer OR Analyze OR Kawashima's OR "brain training" OR minigames OR cartridge OR "Brain Age 2" OR stylus OR "themed questions" OR categories OR puzzles OR "Brain Boost" OR modes OR Previews OR test OR puzzle OR heaviest OR "museum curator" OR Wii OR ESRB

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Nintendo denies DS Lite solus phase out

12 Mar 2009 03:38:27 PDT

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: ...

Original story at MCV .

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Football Academy designer on developing new IP for the DS

10 Mar 2009 09:15:23 PDT

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 ...

Original story at CasualGaming.biz .

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Wii isn't just for kids

02 Feb 2009 00:14:20 PST

Wii isn't just for kids WA Kessler said the seniors are interested in the sports games and in the "brain games." Those include "Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree" which aims to sharpen memory, math and reflex skills. One of the buildings has a group of six to eight seniors who ...

Original story at The Olympian .

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Wii Warm Up: Setting definitive boundaries - Nintendo Wii Fanboy

08 Nov 2008 07:19:25 PST

Written by Alisha Karabinus
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 ...

Original story at Nintendo Wii Fanboy .

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

07 Nov 2008 11:30:24 PST

Written by RawmeatCowboy
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. :\ ...

Original story at Go Nintendo .

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Lightning Review: Brain Challenge

15 Sep 2008 12:55:23 PDT

Written by Rene Ritchie
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 ...

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

27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT

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 ...

Original story at GamePro.com . Related stories include: Big Brain Academy - expotv.com , Nintendo’s Innovative Education Niche_Software_Computer and ... - ukdos.com

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

27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT

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.

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Brain Assist - review

05 Aug 2008 02:52:18 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Go Nintendo .

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Mega Brain Boost review

28 Feb 2008 14:34:56 PST

Written by RawmeatCowboy
Mega Brain Boost doesn’t come close to living up to the more innovative brain-training games for the Nintendo DS including “Big Brain Academy” or “Brain Age.” However, at just $19.99, it may be acceptable for a few of those who enjoy ...

Original story at Go Nintendo .

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GoNintendo ‘good, bad, ugly’ review - Mega Brain Boost

09 Feb 2008 09:54:28 PST

photopress:51u6cYjQU1L._AA280_.jpg,thumb,centered] When it comes to training games, I've stayed on the side of Nintendo-published titles only. Brain Age, Big Brain Academy, and all those titles. I never felt the urge to go third party when it came to those products. Just a few days ago I ha...

Original story at Go Nintendo .

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

10 Jan 2008 20:40:00 PST

Written by Michael McWhertor
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)

Original story at Kotaku .

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Big Brain Academy Invades Canadian TV Show [TV]

15 Aug 2007 14:02:01 PDT

Written by Brian Crecente
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

Original story at Kotaku .

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Wii Review: Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree

03 Jul 2007 00:21:12 PDT

Written by Tall Writer
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.

Original story at Blogcritics .

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Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree Review

11 Jun 2007 11:14:55 PDT

Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree is a simple collection of brain teasers that are different enough from the other minigame collections on the Wii to make it worth playing.

Original story at GameSpot .

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Domination Update: Simple 2000: The Japanese Software Chart

10 May 2007 07:40:43 PDT

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

Original story at Kotaku .

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Horror Story: Wii, DS Release Schedule

07 Mar 2007 17:45:00 PST

Written by Luke Plunkett
April 9 Super Paper Mario Nintendo May 29 Mario Party 8 Nintendo June 11 Big Brain Academy Nintendo June 25 Pokemon Battle Revolution Nintendo Nintendo DS April 22 Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl Nintendo June 4 Nintendo DS browser Nintendo June 4 Planet Puzzle League Nintendo

Original story at Kotaku .

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Wii Big Brain Academy Hands-On [Wii]

18 Sep 2006 08:00:32 PDT

Written by Brian Crecente
Luke Smith, former mop-headed Kotaku writer and current moppier-headed 1Up news editor, totally whipped me in a little impromptu game of Big Brain Academy on the Wii, during the NYC event. Big Brain Academy (temporary name) Format: Wii ESRB: RP (Rating Pending) Developer: Nintendo

Original story at Kotaku .

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Big Brain Academy Details and Screens

11 Apr 2006 06:00:06 PDT

Written by Brian Crecente
Big Brain Academy is a series of minigames (called Activities) that are designed to exercise the brain. Players can "weigh" their brain in Test mode, earn medals for individual activities in Practice mode or play against friends and family in Versus mode.

Original story at Kotaku .

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Big Brain Academy - best news, blogs, videos, photos and more - NoobGibs

Nintendo brain training 'no better than pen and paper'

Tax rebates for games a no-brainer, say gamers

Big Brain Academy for Wii Advert

Library events

Wii Fit Plus &amp; Art Academy Trademarks Spotted

Xbox 360 XBLArrivals: Stellar Hand Edition

Big Brain Academy news and blogs - November 20, 2009

Nintendo denies DS Lite solus phase out

Football Academy designer on developing new IP for the DS

Wii isn&#39;t just for kids

Wii Warm Up: Setting definitive boundaries - Nintendo Wii Fanboy

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

Lightning Review: Brain Challenge

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

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

Brain Assist - review

Mega Brain Boost review

GoNintendo ‘good, bad, ugly’ review - Mega Brain Boost

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

Big Brain Academy Invades Canadian TV Show [TV]

Wii Review: Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree

Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree Review

Domination Update: Simple 2000: The Japanese Software Chart

Horror Story: Wii, DS Release Schedule

Wii Big Brain Academy Hands-On [Wii]

Big Brain Academy Details and Screens

Wii Fit Plus & Art Academy Trademarks Spotted

Wii isn't just for kids