Game News - Edge Award For Brain Training

Game News - Edge Award For Brain Training

 Edge magazine choose a jury and made a little event of "giving-away-awards" in Edinburgh, Scotland. And now the annual award went to Nintendo. The EIEF 2006 Edge Award was presented by Editor Margaret Robertson, who awarded Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training, game known as Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day in the United States. The ceremony closed out the first day of the Edinburgh fest.

Other nominees for the price were, Amped 3 (Xbox 360), Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (PlayStation 2), Electroplankton (Nintendo DS), Fahrenheit (PC, PS2, Xbox also known as Indigo Prophecy in the US), Guitar Hero (PS2), Killer 7 (GameCube, PS2), and Ossu! Tatakae! Ouendan! (In the US, DS is also known as Elite Beat Agents).

The prize was picked up by a Nintendo representative. "Only Nintendo could make mental arithmetic this year's 'must have' Brain Training", he said.

Other prizes that the EIEF 2006 gave away were for the Edge Mobile People's Choice Award which went to Dirty Sanchez Party Games. The game was praised for taking the game "beyond the handset, after beating mobile rivals Doom RPG, Lumines Mobile, and Digital Chocolate's Tower Blocks.

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