Edutainment Games Revealed To Be Useless For Getting Smarter

Games apparently not getting any of us Smarter

A new study involving a survey of ten year old children suggests that games such as Brain Training and Brain Academy don’t actually improve your intelligence. Alan Lieury, a professor at the University of Rennes in France, said that: “The Nintendo DS is a technological jewel. As a game it’s fine, but it is charlatanism… [Continue Reading]

NPD Releases December 2008 Sales Statistics For US Game Industry

NPD game industry sales for December 2008 in the US

The NPD Group has published some much-anticipated sales figures from the US game industry. The list includes numbers for both hardware and software sales. Nintendo stays on top of hardware sales with strong showings from both the Wii and the DS. Here’s the full list for your math-addled brains to digest: US Hardware in December… [Continue Reading]