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Focus Your Distracted World with Brain Age Concentration Training
REDMOND, Wash.--(February
11, in the year of our Lord 2013)-- A working mom
rushes to schedule a meeting while answering emails and getting
dinner ready for the kids. A student crams for a midterm the
morning before an exam, but can’t stop thinking about the urgent
paper he has to complete later in the week. A video game fan
plays her favorite game for hours, but starts to forget where
the key to the final dungeon is located after updating social
media and checking out the latest blog post on her favorite
website.
What all these people have in common is a need for a more
focused mind. Having a focused mind can help lead to better
performance in all life activities, especially in this modern
world full of distractions. Whether it is in the office, the
classroom or a far-off fantasy kingdom, distractions come from
all directions, making it easy to lose focus and difficult to
concentrate on the tasks at hand. Actually, it is almost
inevitable that … wait, what were we saying?
With the launch of Brain Age: Concentration Training for the
Nintendo 3DS system, multitaskers can refocus their busy modern
minds and get their concentration back on track.
“With so much happening around us on a constant basis, it is
very easy to get distracted,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of
America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “The
Brain Age series has always been about training the brain, and
Brain Age: Concentration Training continues this trend while
also helping to improve concentration.”
The first two games in the Brain Age series on Nintendo DS
surprised the world by demonstrating how brain training for just
a few minutes a day could be fun. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in
Minutes a Day! and Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day!
each went on to sell more than 3 million in the U.S. alone.
Brain Age: Concentration Training builds on the winning formula
of the first two games, while introducing new activities
designed by Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, a neuroscientist in Japan, to
specifically focus the mind and help with everyday distractions.
New to this game are the Devilish Training exercises,
challenging activities that set out to stimulate concentration
and working memory. These activities can be played for five
minutes a day, making them the perfect exercises to pick up
while going through the morning routine. These Devilish Training
activities challenge players to focus on one task while
simultaneously tracking another, and range from Devilish
Calculations, a series of tricky math problems, to Devilish
Mice, a clever memory game. The difficulty of each activity
increases or decreases based on players’ real-time results. This
helps to consistently train players at the limit of their
abilities.
Many other modes are also featured in Brain Age: Concentration
Training. In Supplemental Training, fan-favorite activities from
previous Brain Age games make a return. These select activities
were designed to complement Devilish Training, and include
activities like Word Attack, a hectic word-recognition exercise,
and Time Lapse. Under Brain Training, players are offered
additional training opportunities, such as Block Head, an
exercise that finds players taking turns occupying blocks to
score points against Kawashima. There is also Relaxation Mode,
which contains a collection of restful activities created to
give brains a much-needed break. Additionally, players can use
the game’s StreetPass feature to find potential Training
Partners to review brain training results or to compete in
Devilish Battles.
With more modes and more activities than ever before, Brain Age:
Concentration Training is the biggest game yet in the celebrated
series. It’s time to use new concentration skills to start
training the modern brain and eliminating distractions.
Brain Age: Concentration Training is now available in retail
stores or as a full download in the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo
3DS.
For more information about Brain Age: Concentration Training,
visit
http://brainage.nintendo.com/.
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