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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…

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Early footage of Lost Planet 4? Nope, just Boston.

Blizzard “Nemo” battered the east coast overnight on Friday. The governor of Massachusetts enforced an official ban on driving, the first since 1978, with penalties upwards of a year in prison if caught on the roads. Public transit shut down indefinitely. Most schools, stores and businesses shut down for two days. The good news? More time to play games! The bad news? You woke up to this. (Footage taken from my apartment window, using a 3DS on 60-second intervals, from 2pm on Friday to 8am Saturday morning.) At least now you have an excuse to catch up with that Antichamber…