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New Brain Age attempts to cultivate attention in an age of noise
The original Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! was a surprise hit for the Nintendo DS, which along with its sequel sold over 30 million copies and went a long way to convince those who never owned a gaming system before to pick one up and exercise their aging cortex. It also had a rock-solid set of Sudoku puzzles built in. This was in 2005, a full three years before the launch of Apple’s App Store. Digital puzzles and daily mind teasers were a novel concept unavailable elsewhere. This past Sunday, Nintendo released Brain Age: Concentration Training…