GameLoft’s Brain Challenge is actually a rather old game. It was released last year (2006). I haven’t featured this game so far because I didn’t realize that this game is available for S60 platform.

It was started when my friend showed me a game on Nintendo DS, called Brain Age. I thought it is a very cool game. I was wondering whether similar game is available for S60 devices. A couple of days later, there was announcement from Nokia at GDC 2007 (Game Developer’s Conference) that they are going to release a game called Brain Challenge in their latest gaming platform. This announcement led me to GameLoft’s web site and I found the Java version of this game is already available. Cool!

What is Brain Challenge? It is game that helps you to exercise your brain as mentioned in GameLoft’s web site:

Just like your body, your brain needs to exercise to stay in shape. Maintaining it simply involves completing little exercises without pain, stress, or boredom. That’s where Brain Challenge™ comes in! It’s like a real vitamin boost for your brain. Brain Challenge is more than just a game or program.

There are several mini games inside Brain Challenge that are divided into four categories, Logic, Math, Visual and Memory. The screenshots below the two sample games from Brain Challenge.

The game on the left side is called Balanced. Basically, you have to find the heaviest thing shown on the picture. The game on the right side is called Tiled. What you have to do here is arrange the tile to match the one shown at the top of the screen. I think you will get a rough idea how the game play is.

Now, it comes to the trickiest part. Where can we download or buy the game? After searching on the Internet for about an hour, I finally realized that this game is sold via operator only. So, if you want to buy the game, please visit your operator’s portal. This is the only bad thing about this game, it’s not easy to buy and download the game. Why don’t they just list their game in Handango or other sites?

Compatible devices: S60 1st, 2nd, 3rd Edition, Nokia Nseries, Nokia Eseries.