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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.