If you haven’t picked up a DSi yet, now is your chance for a great deal.

Starting this Friday, November 27, 2009 (presumably lasting through the holidays), you can purchase a Metallic Blue or White Nintendo DSi systems that come pre-installed with more than $20 in software value at various retailers.

If you are looking for fun action games with Mario and friends, then Metallic Blue is your bundle. However, if you are looking for challenges and brain builders, then go with the White bundle.

The success of Nintendo’s Brain Age series can be attributed to both scientific officials touting its capabilities and positive reviews from the gaming press. There are some, however, that are still not sold on its potential.

The University of Rennes, Brittany, contend people who play Brain Age do not show a jump in memory. In fact, based on their data, it leads to memory becoming worse.

To arrive at these results, the researchers…

I bet many of you have this vision of Nintendo sitting back eating some mystical golden cash turkey and spending Black Friday sleeping of massive amounts of tryptophan (the stuff that makes you sleepy after eating turkey) on mattresses stuffed with cash, dreaming about the holiday shopper circus frenzy in retailers across the country. Well, you’re probably right especially since Nintendo is offering up two new limited edition DS bundles for which shoppers will have to compete for in some form of death ring.

The first of the bundles will be offering up a fully crimson red painted DS with a Mario M logo stomped on the system’s top cover. It will also come bundled with a copy of New Super Mario Bros., a game which I watched go out of stock more than any other DS game…

This has to be one of the weirdest bits o’ swag I’ve received from Nintendo. Well, except maybe the Brain Age brain snowglobe. To help promote the Touch Generation-branded lineup of games, Nintendo sent members of the media a laminated placemat featuring a TV dinner style tray made up of a Thanksgiving feast” turkey, mashed more »

Reminiscent of the original GameBoy Color announcement, Nintendo is releasing a DS with the Color moniker (at least for marketing purposes). The DS Color is not really a new DS, just the same ol’ DS Lite with a new color scheme. Here is Nintendo’s description of the color scheme: The top half of the new more »

Inspired by the successes of Big Brain Academy and Brain Age, other companies are apparently less afraid to get into the adult edugaming, er, game. Midway is releasing Hot Brain for the PSP in June 2007, featuring a weird professor voiced by actor Fred Willard. Games will be of the casual genre, include various memory more »