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Othello ... with a story mode!
Othello de Othello DS is notable for more than just the fact that two of the four words in its title are "Othello." It also features a story mode! No details on the story have been released yet, but we can see from screenshots that there's an RPG-like town for your (quite ugly) character to traverse. Hey, it worked for Puzzle Quest! Being a DS game, Othello de Othello DS also features a training mode, designed to test your knowledge of the game. The "Jibun no Jitsuryoku Check" ("Your Own Ability Check") features 150 questions about the rules and history of Othello.
Show these IQ Breeder screens to your cat
We think IQ Breeder is our new obsession. We can't help but approve of the insane premise behind the game-- blending Nintendogs and Brain Age to create an unfathomably weird training game in which you perform brain training exercises to increase the IQ of a virtual pet. The new screens at Famitsu show some of the games that you and your "friend" can play together in the interest of boosting its fake IQ. And as for those pets, you can choose a dog, a cat, a pig, or one of four types of turtles!The games range from math problems to rhythm games, as well as classic distractions like mazes. One of the math games involves solving equations to win a race, like in the Atari 2600 game Math Gran Prix. Our favorite game, however, is the cat-picture jigsaw puzzle, because it looks like developer MegaHouse actually went to the trouble of making a 3D model of the same cat that appears in the sample puzzle. We hate puzzles, but we love cat pictures!
Brain Training for fake pets
Megahouse's IQ Breeder is a cross between a Nintendogs-style virtual pet and a brain training game-- which, you must admit, is kind of a clever way to try to make money on the DS. It's a brain training minigame collection in which the goal isn't to lower your Brain Age, but to raise the IQ of a virtual pet.As you complete the minigames and improve your performance, your pet's IQ increases. It's brain training by proxy. And as if that concept weren't bizarre enough, the goal of all the training is to raise your nonexistent pal's IQ until it can complete the training games itself. We've played countless hours of Brain Age in front of our cat, but we have yet to see him attempt any Sign Finder. Maybe we should get him his own DS so he can practice.
The Illuminate Cube: like Rubik on meth
Hooked on retro-kitsch, boy? You'll likey this Illuminate Cube from Megahouse then. Now it's no coincidence that this cube bears more than a passing resemblance to his similarly colored and sized bro' Rubik since The House owns the rights to said wunderkind in Japan. Unfortunately, this cube doesn't move, unless you mean the colored lights which do their best to keep time with the beat off any 3.5-mm attached audio source. Sure, it has a tiny 27-mm cone speaker integrated as well, but with a power rating of just 125mW x 2ch, why bother. Available at the end of the month in Japan for ¥5,250 or right around $44. [Via Impress]
