What better way to promote a game than by with a brain suspended in swirling white crap? Wired's Chris Kohler shows this Brain Age Nintendo sent him. Odd. But Cool. In an odd way. Brian Ashcraft

Brain Globe [Game|Life via GayGamer]

Just how popular are brain games in Japan? Prof. Kawashima's popular Adult Brain Training has been morphed into video games and now a DVD. Repeated watching strengthens gray matter, and viewers are expected to talk to their TVs during the DVD brain training. Thought only sports fans and crazy people had conversations with their televisions.

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No word on how much the sequel, Big Brain Academy, will cost. I think Nintendo is going to lowball the first one to get us all hooked and then crank up the price as the sequels hit. By the eighth title we'll all be handing over our souls for that sweet taste of brain training.

Two DS Brain Games Dated [Kotaku]

With brain games like Adult DS Training racking up major sales, the salacious sex knock-offs were bound to pop up. With a title that sounds like massage parlor, Lucky Star Moe Drill makes players do a series of math problems and memory exercises as schoolgirls and maids give blow-by-blow descriptions. The evidence that the proper "brain games" actually make you smarter seems questionable, but I can say a 100 percent, without a doubt, playing this game makes you dumb as shit.

Screens after the jump.

See More Pervy Screens Here [Official Site]

Woah. Sega's really serious about their new brain training game. They've even started a buncha freaky experiments to prove that the game stimulates yer noggin'. Testers were wired so that computers could pick up reactions while playing. The result? Neurons in the cerebral cortex fired, thereby strengthening gray matter. A stronger mind means a smarter, quicker person. Perhaps someone should send that knobhead Jack Thompson a copy.

I sure hope they paid these dudes.

Watch the CM [Sega]

Here s a great way to waste your day. Don t blame me when it gets you fired. Ultimate Sudoku is a cool little flash version of the painfully popular number puzzle that is popping up in books and newspapers around the world.

The object of the game is to make sure each 3-by-3 square contains all of the numbers from one to nine and that one to nine is also found in every row and every column. It s very simple to grasp by devilishly difficult to master.

Ultimate Sudoku [Flash Game]