Brain Age bestowed Edge award, beats out Guitar Hero, others

[wraggster]

Via Joystiq

Nintendo's Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! has received Edge magazine's 'Edge Award,' which recognizes games that show "the willingness to aim higher and try something new." Brain Age beat out cult hits like Guitar Hero (PS2) & Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan (DS), along with Amped 3 (Xbox 360), Dragon Quest VIII (PS2), Electroplankton (DS), Indigo Prophecy (PC/PS2/Xbox), and Killer 7 (GameCube). "Only Nintendo could make arithmetic fun," remarked Nintendo UK general manager David Yarnton upon accepting the award.

Edge also presented an award to InfoSpace's Dirty Sanchez for best mobile game.

[daninski]

bbc news quoted margret robinson with that quote. she's the editor of edge.

[Junixx]

Wow i would have never thought brain age would have beat guitar heroes

[CampaKaze]

Yah, guitar hero is a really good game oO! but maybe cus it was just one thing over and over again just diff songs. oh well guitar hero is still better imo

[woods05]

I think Brain Age is a great game. It definitely deserves this award.

[The Hombrew Hunter]

It does deserve the award.

Guitar Hero was fun, but not as fun as Brain Age's download multiplayer with a bunch of nerds

[daninski]

guitar games have been done before, the edge award is for successful innovation. so whilst guitar hero is better it isn't 'pushing the boundaries' of what we expect a game to be.

[CampaKaze]

Yes, but isnt Brain Age just a whole bunch of games crammed together? therefore its as original as an IQ test :P oh well, i guess both games get funner when it gets harder, im still playin guitar hero lol im only on hard, and its really hard for me Well Grats To Brain Age