Good exercise for the brain no matter how simple. Memory improves since i have abit short term memory.

helped to change many long-running and deep-seated preconceptions about video games and who could play them. Gaming was no longer solely the pursuit of sexually frustrated teenage boys with a love of violence; instead it could be enjoyed by all comers, from ageing thespians to Irish popstars, from...

Dr Kawashima's Body and Brain Exercises for Kinect may be limited and occasionally messy, but it's gently compelling and inventive workout for the mind, writes Tom Hoggins.

Microsoft won't admit it in quite these terms, but it's obvious to all and sundry that it is copying the New Nintendo model (think New Labour, perhaps with a devil-eyed poster of Shigeru Miyamoto). But it's not, as lesser outlets might have you believe, as simple as "copying the Wii with Kinect".

Following the success of Dr Kawashima's Brain Training on Nintendo DS, the series has now been ported on to Xbox , incorporating the motion-capture tech of its Kinect hardware and hence the unsurprising additions of "body" and "exercise" to the mix.