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My Mom's 70, she's into games like Suduko and Cut the Rope on her iPad. She doesn't need any brain sharpening (she's got a PHD in biochem) and these games certainly don't do much for that anyway. I played Brain Age on DS a while back and got pretty bored with it after a few days. No challenge at all. That Mensa Academy game was equally too simple and boring. If you want to tune up a brain, turn a real life skill into a game-like system like what was done with Rocksmith. Learning real skills is what improves a brain, not playing carrot-on-a-rope type adictive nonsense like Farmville.

Looks fun.

Ah man! These are fantastic! Take a great game, and make a whole new experience out of it. Who are these guys who put so much time into these things? There should be a marketplace for this stuff so they can get something back for their excellent work. These mods should be DLC purchases on the consoles. They aren't just silly skins in Minecraft, they change many elements of the game and even add new quests! Wonderbar!

That makes me think of the puzzles in The Cave that I played this year.

I just started looking at the free games on PSN for Vita. Didn't see anything I wanted to play there yet, but I may check out PS3 a give a look.

Been wanting that Costume Quest for a while now. Maybe tonight's the night.

When I used to listen to the GoNintendo podcast, Raw Meat Cowboy raved about Zak & Wiki so much, I finally went out and got a copy. I still haven't played it though.

I still have my Dreamcast keyboard and Typing of the Dead. It was fine, just like Typer Shark on PopCap was fine (I'd rather play Mavis Beacon Typing Tutorial instead - teaches more real skills and is just as fun to me) but I really want to play more of the light gun House of the Dead games.

Neato. There are all these hidden gems out there for the Dreamcast. I still have mine and could use some more games for it. One of these days I'll go on a retro binge and hopefully pick up this game.

Sweet! I still have to play last year's XCOM: EU. It's sitting here waiting to get played. I'm tempted to bite on the new one, but I want to get to the original first. Nevertheless, this is going in my must-play list for games to get as soon as I have the cash.