The game publisher, Namco Bandai Networks Europe, has today offered mobile users both young and old a new, fun and competitive way of improving their mental agility. More Brain Exercise with Dr. Kawashima, introduces a whole new range of challenging games officially tested by Dr. Kawashima, and proven to stimulate different parts of the brain (temporal lobe, parietal lobe, and frontal lobe) to keep the mind awake and active. In a move which promises to inject the genre with a new competitive streak, users of the game can also upload their More Brain Exercise scores to an online ranking system and compare their results with other brain training addicts around the world. Facebook users can also track their ranking and represent their country in the Facebook Brain Olympiad, also announced today.

More Brain Exercise with Dr. Kawashima features fifteen new brain training games, five of which are used to measure brain age, as well as bonus games and additional functionality. Users can choose to evaluate their brain age, follow the daily brain training programme, or play additional games from the brain training selection. Up to three different profiles can be stored in the game so users can challenge their friends to compete using the same handset.

As a bonus feature, More Brain Exercise with Dr. Kawashima features a selection of Sudoku puzzles for players to enjoy on the move.

Users of the game can track their progress by regularly re-testing their brain age and the game will also rank them as anything from a cell to the universe (the larger the object, the better), passing by dog, human, giraffe and dinosaur to name just a few in between. Full profile information is recorded on the handset, including the user’s highest rank and statistics showing frontal, temporal and parietal lobe performance over days and weeks of training.