Two new Clever Kids For Nintendo DS and Wii

Although we doubt we've got any readers from the target group of Clever Kids: Farmyard Fun and Clever Kids: Pirates (being 5-10 year olds), we still report on the games' announcements.

As the publisher from the Clever Kids series states: "The eagerly awaited sequels to smash hit Clever Kids titles Dino Land and Pony World have been announced for a 24th October release." Whether the above is all true, we won't argue. Fact is that the two new titles Pirates and Farmyard Fun will be available on the PC CD-ROM, Nintendo DS and Wii next month.

Targeted at the 5-10 age group Clever Kids has the explicit aim of encouraging youngsters to learn through the interaction and exploration of some of their favourite subjects. Clever Kids games encourage logical reasoning, improve memory functions, develop dexterity and increase attention span : all the time maintaining the players interest in a subject by keeping them entertained.

In Clever Kids: Farmyard Fun, players will join farmer Sprocket and his herd of sheep, cows and pigs to learn all about life on the farm. There are a myriad of fun games and activities available including painting, Jigsaw puzzles, games to improve memory function, quizzes to test the players knowledge on hundreds of farmyard facts, Spot the Difference and Animal Pairs.

Players can also team-up with Sprocket in Clever Kids: Pirates and sail the seven seas with treacherous pirates. Climb aboard the greatest Pirate ships of them all and go on adventures to find out what life on the seas was all about. Learn the pirate code, identify famous Pirates and their flags, learn what Pirates ate and find out all about the dangers of combat and disease.

Whichever adventure you choose the interactive environments and multitude of mini-games will test, teach and entertain the player every step of the way.

Marketing Account Manager, Adrian Clews comments "The Clever Kids range of games remain the only titles with curriculum based educational content for children on console formats. The DS and Wii are hugely popular with youngsters and a great way for children to have fun whilst learning about their favourite subjects. We support all of our Clever Kids titles with extensive marketing support including, advertising, PR and a dedicated website. This combined with the full localisation of Clever Kids SKU's has significantly bolstered sales in the UK and international territories"

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  This sounds interesting, but what do the games actually teach? A pertinent question as there are a lot of "educational" titles that really are nothing more than timewasters. However, in terms of these being the only "curriculum based educational" games for the DS, that is not true. We've enjoyed the Math Patrol and Word Safari titles from GXB (gxbi.com) -- those titles have definitely helped the kids with math facts, word problems, spelling, vocabulary, etc, etc...

  samjay, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  Funny you mention that, as I also got a press release on an English study in my mail yesterday. Some schools conducted an experiment using Brain Training to measure the effect on pupils. Apparently the group of pupils 'playing' the games prior to the lessons and exams scored significantly higher than the control group. Might not be such a waste of time really. Just stimulating to think might actually help more than expected at first.

  Dennis, 30-11--0001 at 00:00