Portable Gaming Revolution

Given the amazing success of titles like Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day and Big Brain Academy for the DS, it’s no surprised that someone out there finally decided to make a similar type of game for the PSP.

Midway Games has announced their intention to release Hot Brain for the PSP (to be voiced by Fred Willard, from Anchorman). In case you were wondering about the title, the objective to the game is to get the highest brain temperature by answering questions correctly and completing certain challenges. Since the PSP has a pretty obvious lack of a touch screen, you will be able to choose your responses via icon selection… this might make it a little harder during time-based challenges!

There are going to be five different categories to make you think: concentration, math, logic, language and memory. If you’re interested in picking it up for a quick little session to get your mind going first thing in the morning… the game will offer 3-minute sessions as well as extended gameplay that will include brain teasers, puzzles, card games, trivia, etc. Multi-player is going to be supported with a couple of different modes: Think Tank (cooperative) and Brain Race (timed competitive multiplayer). The two single player modes include Practice and Test Mode (the official single-player challenge).

Personally, I was a huge fan of the two DS “brain training” games and am looking forward to see how the genre translates onto the PSP! This title is expected to hit store shelves at some point this summer.